Car Review - Opel Corsa 1.6i Sedan

I am one of those people who regularly purchase new cars... I guess I just like the feel and smell of a brand new car, and to experience different styles and performances.

During the next couple of weeks I'll play catchup on all my previously owned vehicles. I will write short reviews based on my personal experiences and opinions - they will NOT be objective reviews as my intent is to include emotion.

Starting then with my very first car - the Opel Corsa 1.6i Sedan.

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How my eels really swallow their prey

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It's spring!!!!

The best time of the year... Spring is on us. Yay!

ASP.NET, Global.asax, Application_Error and "lost" Session

I recently ran into a weird issue with ASP.NET. In my Global.asax file I have a handler for Application_Error to display a standard error page. However, in the Master Page (the handler transfers to an error page that inherits from a custom master page), I read the session state to show a global status.

This works fine, until an unhandled exception is thrown. Then I suddenly get an exception stating that Session is null. This made no sense, and I even discovered a response from someone on the internet that once an unhandled exception was thrown, the session state is reset (which is preposterous). Eventually I found the reason - the Application_Error event is raised *before* the AcquireRequestState event is raised - which sets up the Session state.

Simple conclusion - Session state is not available in Application_error.

Mac OS X 10.4.10 and QuickTime 7.2 broke Rosetta apps

I tried to run Motic Images Plus the other day, and it kept on crashing with a segment fault. It did not make sense since it used to work perfectly and I have not done any major updates to the system. Today I tried to run Microsoft Word 2004 and it failed in the same manner, so I immediately suspected Rosetta as both apps are PowerPC based.

I found this link that confirmed my suspicions - just never figured the culprit was the recent Quicktime 7.2 upgrade I did:

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