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Wednesday, September 14, 2005

Red Pill or the Red Pill?

Today, while upgrading a .net software product's reporting interface from Crystal 9 to Crystal 11, I open a similar Visual Studio project which also references some Crystal Assemblies and am presented with a little game that Crystal Decisions like to play: "Would you like the Red Pill or the Red Pill valued Crystal Customer", see here. If you choose the Blue Pill (i.e. "No"), Crystal still checked out the Solution's project file, and proceeded to remove old references from it (here), and insert new references (here). If I do an undo check-out on the Solutions project file, the whole game starts again here, and I am unable to open my project.

Another Crystal Decisions 'feature'. Either that or I took the wrong Pill after all.

Wednesday, September 07, 2005

Baron Karza


I finally worked out what the collection of strange toys were which I had when young. I didnt know what tv show they were from when I found them a couple years back while going through some stuff at home.

http://www.innerspaceonline.com/gal01.htm

I had the purple thing, and the black and white robots - the robots fire little red missiles from its chest, and its fists fire too. Its joints were held together with magnets and ball berrings.

Found them by going through this site's toys.. http://www.megomuseum.com/ after reading about the site in a interview with robot chicken creators.