I tried to install Visual Studio Beta 2 from an ISO today using the Virtual CD Rom tool. This mounted the ISO fine as drive Z: but when I ran the setup.exe I got an error that it could not load the SITSetup.dll, even though this was in the ISO. I copied the contents of the ISO to my physical disk and reran the setup …

I tried to create a new TFS team project today and got an error that the TFS server could not access the SQL Reporting Services server. I then checked I could access http://myserver/reports and this also failed. On looking in the event log I saw a number of EventID 107 'cannot connect to the report server database' Now …

Day 4 was well like a normal day , sleep (some) , food (mostly edible) . we saw some great presentations and had a normal day with out the need to work. Day 5 started early 8.00 and the Seedlings did 3 hours on the stand as did all of the other competitors, doing the rounds when there is no competition was great as …

Today was a very bizarre experience. we set off at 8.00am (midnight UK time) in a thunderous downpour to see the sights. After several uncomfortable days in transit in the bus , we were issues a pastel colored umbrellas and fans! The first visit was to the national museum , much time was taken by the organizers to …

If you are reading Robert's blog you will know he is in Korea as the mentor of The Seedings, the UK entry for the Microsoft Imagine Cup. I have just seen that the is some video coverage on Microsoft's Channel8 (which seems to be a Channel9/10 spin off for the Imaging Cup students). Enjoy..... Technorati Tags: Imagine …

Some time ago I upgraded my Orange mobile to an M700. It's a very nice phone indeed, and the ability to be able to use TomTom 6 on it as well saves me having to varry around yet another electronic device. One thing about it did however annoy me - there was no equivalent of the T9 text input that I had on my old phone. …

And onto Day 2 , the presentation was at 9.00am. it went very very well. Just after the presentation some of the Argentinean team came over for a chat During the chat a Mexican film crew came around and started talking about the UK and Argentina , in my deep subconscious all I could hear was one of my school teachers …

Well here we are Day 1 , it already feels like Thursday. Set up has gone well , everything is working on the initial pass. the booth looking nice and tidy then we filled the booth with some riff-raff and then the first presentation The presentation went will, the QandA was a bit hairy more due to tiredness than …

There small set of minor interesting points have happened today so there they are in no order Coke but not as we know it the cans are smaller ( 250Ml ) which is just wrong. Taste is well odd, but nice. General consumption of personal body weights in coke has continued. One of the nice finds is Grape Fanta - YUM The W …

I am in Korea with the UK Imagine Cup team and I thought a small picture journey would help here is the team with a rangy stranger in Paris CDG in Seoul Airport mmmm Noodles What says Oriental efficiency more than a ride on Mop :) the chaps on our transport bus ( Luxury ), Jim seems to be having some tummy trouble. the …