Hatsune Miku

If you think Hannah Montana was a strange transition from a film character to a real stage performer, what would you think about a vocaloid sega game character performing live on a real stage?
Here is the live show of Hatsune Miku: Project Diva.

SQL Gotcha

When you define a DECIMAL in SQL you may assume that it is some sort of float because you can put real numbers in it. The truth is that DECIMAL is a numeric data type that have fixed precision and scale, and while a definition like DECIMAL(18,6) offers a 6 decimal digit precision, it defaults to DECIMAL(18,0). Therefore when you define a variable as DECIMAL, it is some sort of long.

When you compare a DATETIME with a string representation of a date you may get into trouble when you use the separated form, because it is dependent of SET DATEFORMAT and SET LANGUAGE. To get rid of the problem, you can use unseparated format like yyyymmdd hh:mm:ss.sss, or ISO 8601 like yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ss.sss.

Chillin

Wale featuring Lady Gaga - Chillin

Pulstar

In the 2009 BBC film Micro Men, a film about Sir Clive Sinclair and the ZX Spectrum phenomenon in the mid eighties, I have noticed a remake of the Pulstar song by KOTO.

That's Not My Name

I like Victoria Secret shows, but the music is an important part of the entire atmosphere. The 2008 show features The Ting Things with their song That's Not My Name.

Adina

 

Adina is a senior developer in the team at my work. She describes herself in three words as true, gothic and special. Indeed, she is special enough for the worst storm in a month to happen in the exact twenty minutes window she is outside from work to home. When it comes to the gothic aspect, she likes the black color (I know, black is not exactly a color, it's in fact the absence of it) and she likes talking about death. As of the true emo part, that probably is hidden deep inside her soul. Usually we experience her hysterical joy when things get ugly, blunt dismissal when she's sleepy after a great and sometimes hot night full of alcohol, subtle actions against the system, smart jokes about everything that is not beyond the vanishing point of the horizon and singing performances that would make a baby cry.

Somehow I understand the context of her life from what she shares about herself, after trimming out the stories of her great awareness at the early age of two, but of course without the grained details that anyone in his right mind will stay out. What I can say from the perspective of two desks to the left, is that her sorrow is perfectly justified and her accomplishments admirable, even if there is place for better and happier. At first you wouldn't think that she's so emotional and passionate, but she really is, although those moments are cut short in the presence of others.

If voices tell you that you’re normal, then it would be nice to stop swearing and leave a hysterical comment exacerbating the lack of talent of this silent monkey, unless you have died before you felt...

Disclaimer: This text tries to be a satire and some expressions are used deliberately from the person described herein.

ROFLYSST

Bill Bailey with the funny Internet Love Song,
Part of the Dandelion Mind show.

Whilst vaguely watching you nibble your sandwich,
I was gripped by an overwhelming sense of utter futility.
You twitter "Oh my God I'm having a sandwich" like it's thrilling
Four seconds later...
Nineteen followers twitter "What filling?"
One of them is me, I say "Is it carrot and hummus?"
You say "Wow, there must be a special connection between us"
We meet from a tweet
But it's not that appealing
Because unlike Lionel Richie
We're not dancing on the ceiling
I caress you like a curious wasp
You embrace me like a spiteful pheasant
It's quite unpleasant
Aww, my eye
And then you shit on my head
Do we really love?
Do we really care?
Let's sort this out with an online questionnaire
But in the box marked "Do you really wanna be with me?"
We both clicked...
Neither agree nor disagree
I don't hate you, it's not fate
It's just we're not that great
I don't dislike you, I just unlike you
FYI (For your information)
LOL (I am not laughing out loud)
LMAO (Or even laughing my arse off)
ROFLYSST (Or even R-O-F-L-Y-S-S-T)
... Rolling on the floor laughing yet somehow still typing!

Dataset Fill

If a DataTable inside a DataSet has a primary key, that column is unique and Fill gets the data only once for multiple calls, without previous cleaning the table. If there is not a primary key, Fill appends the data for every call. If you have a unique constraint, second call will fail. Therefore it's necessary to clean the DataTable before calling Fill.

Grooveshark

Update: It seems that Grooveshark realized that a free service is still a good business model.

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I sadly found out that Grooveshark became a paid only service. It was one of the coolest sites for listening to music for free.

Here is the last list of songs from the widget:
Drown Them Out - Viva Voce
Ooh La La - Goldfrapp
Somewhere Across Forever - Stellastarr*
I Want More - Black Summer Crush
The Funeral - Band of Horses
Do You Believe Her - Raveonettes
I Love Lucy - The Soft Boys

Temporary Tables SQL Server 2008

The maximum length of the name for a temporary table in SQL Server 2008 is 128 characters. The last 12 characters are reserved, therefore only 116 can be effectively used. It is worth noting that the first character should be the '#' if the table is a local temporary table. Also the first two characters should be the '#' if the table is a global temporary table.

STOP ACTA!

RObotzi.S02.Ep.Special.ACTA from Toma Caragiu on Vimeo.

Conquer Online

I am level 115 again after the first rebirth with my Trojan.