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Something to look forward to..

Lucky chap can get a newer car. ..Not that he can complain about the Corsa Bit on the expensive side, low on practicality with the 2 doors and stuff.. but then its only one life that you got and might as well turn some heads during the time you are around ;) I hope the blue eyed blondes in kindergarten take notice of the little naughty coming in the red car. Have booked the Alfa 3 weeks or so ago. Red as in the pic, leather seats with some camel shade, 17'' alloys, Alfa DNA were included in the Distinctive version. 1.3 diesel engine as im not much into speed. 3-4 month wait for delivery!

Quotable quote - Review of "Gone with the wind"

This was one funny review..and I fully agree with the person who wrote it. Made me think of the similar pattern in Indian films where the protagonists are invariably of the upper class with appropriate surname - If NOT; then the character necessarily has to have certain undignified mannerisms that point to where he/she came from. -- How can anyone seriously criticize this film? Well, some people can, but that’s not my point. The point is that this is the greatest American film since “Birth of a Nation.” Watch in awe as Scarlett and Ashley pine for the bygone days when the soft high sound of Negro laughter rises like the Louisiana marsh mist from the decrepit, rat-infested slave quarters swimming in lice and feces. Chortle with Rhett as he sprays misogyny across Georgia like an alley cat with a urinary tract infection. Pray with the Confederacy as it bravely attempts to defend time-honored traditions of patriarchal subjugation, racist contempt for human life and belligerent arrogance b

Finding obsolete DLL and OCX files

Today I had to make an ancient application developed in VB6 work. This was to demonstrate to third parties that this app was once functional and used actively for business. The code was provided in some backup CD. The programmer behind the project had long dissappeared. Also most of the components used in the project were made by companies that have ceased to exist. Result was that the code would not compile in my machine. Errors were thrown up like "component xyz not registered" "Invalid Reference" and so on. Only way was to find these dlls somehow and register them manually using regsvr32 But how?? and where to find them! It was interesting to search for companies that made products such as SSINPUT1.ocx and sold them for $500+ Needless to say, then went either bust or got acquired. Those who acquired them got acquired and they in turn..... funny. I made some discoveries which could be useful for people in a similar scenario SSInput1 is an OCX control for data en