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Hey, that's a fake! If you look carefully at the boat in the foreground, you'll see that the shadow of the mast falls on the water at the wrong angle.

A magician was walking down the high street, then suddenly turned into a shop.

I picked up a Huawei Blaze (Android) from phones4u on the weekend for £29.99. It's a little cracker. I have a bad track record with phones so I tend to avoid expensive numbers. At that price, it's a worry-free phone.

This deserves a bump at this time of year.

I popped into the pub earlier. There was nobody there apart from the barman. He left to change a barrel, so I was alone. A voice came from behind the bar where they keep the snacks. The voice said 'You look nice tonight'. I thought this was very odd, so I mentioned it to the barman when he returned. 'Ah', he chuckled, 'those were the complementary nuts'.

Perfect setup. Flawless execution.

Even more Pi-er than Pi would be a Pi Pie.

Firefox users can run a Firefox OS simulation as an add-on. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firefox-os-simulator/ Word is these phones will be available early next year. I'd buy one of these in a heartbeat. Firefox have bought everything.me, bridging HTLM5 and the native phone. Everything.me, The Search App That Bridges The Native And HTML5 Divide, Gets $25M From Telefonica, Mozilla And Singtel | TechCrunch

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Indeed. Every event, every quantum interaction, every incident has been leading, inexorably, to this happening. mthomas08, it is your destiny.

Hmmm.... I thought their main revenue was from corporate stuff - Server, Exchange and Office. I might be wrong though. As for tablets, I keep an eye on this guy's blog - he's not optimistic about MS's chances on the tablet front. Communities Dominate Brands: Android Won. Windows Lost. Now what? The Battle of the Century is Decided. Microsoft relegated to ever smaller PC corner as Google conquers the world

How's progress?

I've just had a quick look through that document - this is extraordinary stuff.

I hear the sound of chairs being thrown.

Using SQL Server Manager, expand the 'Databases' tree, right-click your database and choose 'Properties' In the left column, select the 'Files' page, you'll see the see the settings for the files in use by your database, normally one for the database file and one for the log file. There's an 'initial size' field; here is where the size is set. Too small a value means that auto-grows frequently take place, this isn't ideal.

dbattach should hook into the BACKUP routines of SQL, so yes, it will.

It's almost certainly a problem with your backups at some time. Maybe a while ago, but could still be current. Your log file will grow continuously until you back up your database. This is by design. If you use simple recovery mode, a backup will truncate the log file. This will allow the physical space the log file occupies to be re-used. It will not shrink the log file - it will continuously recycle the physical file space. You can shrink the log file from the SQL console. Don't shrink it to the minumum value, as it will almost instantly need to auto-grow, hitting the performance a little. This auto-grow will be 10% of the original value, which will soon not be enough, and will need another 10% auto-grow. Rinse and repeat. Far better to resize the log file to something like the same size as your database file. If you're OK with SQL queries, you can run this query which wlll tell you the status of your backups. SELECT sysdb.name, bkup.description, bkup.backup_finish_date, case when type='D' then '** FULL **' when type='I' then 'DIFFERENTIAL' when type='L' then 'LOG' end as Backup_Type, (STR(ABS(DATEDIFF(day, GetDate(),(backup_finish_date))))) as 'Days_Ago', ceiling(bkup.backup_size /1048576) as 'Size Meg' , cast((bkup.backup_size /1073741824) as decimal (9,2)) as 'Gig', server_name, sysdb.crdate ,datediff(minute, bkup.backup_start_date, bkup.backup_finish_date) as 'Mins' ,cast(cast(datediff(minute, bkup.backup_start_date, bkup.backup_finish_date) as decimal (8,3))/60 as decimal (8,1)) as 'Hours', first_lsn, last_lsn, checkpoint_lsn FROM master.dbo.sysdatabases sysdb LEFT OUTER JOIN msdb.dbo.backupset bkup ON bkup.database_name = sysdb.name where backup_finish_date > DATEADD(DAY, -60, (getdate())) -- Last 60 days ORDER BY sysdb.name, bkup.backup_finish_date desc

Joking aside (it ain't funny when it gets serious), I had a quick look at the news and it's littered with stories about crazies/credulous/lunatics prepping for the upcoming apocalypse. I am certain we'll read about tragedies in the days to come. 10News - San Diegans prepare for Mayan doomsday: Mayan calendar ends on December 21, 2012 - News Story http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/413543/20121211/2012-mayan-doomsday-countdown-france-blocks-access.htm

Typical. Just as I was getting used to living in a pre-apocalyptic world.

There was a spammy link in a previous post - the post has gone now.

Done. Better safe than sorry, eh?

As a kid, I've been in the cockpit of a jet during a flight. It was great - more buttons than you could shake a (joy)stick at. It was many years ago - late '70s I would guess - my Dad asked if I could go in and have a look - 'no problem', they said. Times have changed since then.

You won't regret spending time looking at this site: Strobist Their philosophy is quite different to studio techniques. And do check out their assignment write-ups. http://strobist.blogspot.co.uk/2006/03/on-assignment.html The Strobist 101 guide lighting here: Strobist: Lighting 101

I made a very nice backdrop with an old large projector screen (£2 from a car boot sale) and blue poster paint (£1 from The Works) applied with a sponge. I can post an example of a photo with this setup when I get home tonight. As for lights, I've got a couple of Jessops 336VM lights. These are budget studio lights, and have never let me down. They fit on lighting stands I bought from Amazon for £10. I think the lights cost me £60 second hand. Another option is to buy non-dedicated flashguns, with manual control. I've got a couple of these (a Sunpak 555, 3600 and a GX4500). These are hugely powerful and quite cheap (under £30 each). I put these on the lighting stands and trigger them with a remote trigger system. I bought a Yonguo RF-602 trigger system which also allows me to trigger my Canon EOS remotely with the supplied trigger. I'm sure this will come in useful one day. If you go down this route, be very careful of the trigger voltages - the RF-602 can only handle 12v, the trigger voltage on the Sunpak 3600 is close to 200v so it will fry the trigger. The Sunpak 555 has a trigger voltage of 6v so it's quite safe.

I've no doubt. Chris Lintott has been an effective co-presenter for a few years now. I remember when he first appeared as a young nervous guest.