Busy week

This week looks as follows:

Today (Tuesday, 13 December 2005) after work somebody is coming to try on some costumes, afterwards I am meeting a friend for a movie.

Tomorrow after work I am meeting somebody else, which will most likely last until midnight.

Thursday I am getting another visitor or two to pick up costumes. Afterwards I need to pack my suitcase and water plants. Durign the day we close the office as well, hopefulyl early, then I can still do a few other things.

Friday morning I am meetign a friend for breakfast at the Golden Acre, and afterwards I will be waiting at the bus terminal to catch the bus from Cape Town (South Africa) to Windhoek (Namibia).

DOOM movie in South African cinemas

Yesterday I went with a friend of mine to a cinema to watch the DOOM movie.
Having played DOOM 1 to DOOM 3, I just had to watch that, especially since "The Rock" is in it. As a wrestling fan, that was yet another reason to watch the movie, and I love sci-fi horror/action movies in any case.

The movie caught a lot of the atmospheric effects of the DOOM 3 game while maintaining the story pretty well. There is still room for a sequel.

Busy week and vacation in Namibia

This entire week has been the usual end of year chaos at work, at home and my my home based work. Everybody wants my time to meet them, so I ended up juggling schedules.

A lot of year-end functions seem to be happening this weekend. A lot of people rented costumes for either today or tomorrow. Yesterday I realised, that I need some costumes in different sizes which I didn't expect that I would have to get those in different sizes.

Next week Friday I am leaving on vacation for Namibia to visit family. There everybody wants to see me as well. I will probably require hectic work when I am back, just to relax from the vacation.

Busy lazy weekend

This last weekend started out as being quite busy but Sunday was more like a lazy edition, even after doing some cleaning up. Rest was urgently needed and that is also hard work.

On Saturday the bank queue was going super slow as expected, and other people wanted to waste my time before that.

The WWE RAW episode on Sunday was the one where the death of Eddie Guerrero was mentioned. Basically E-TV is one month behind.
On Sunday I had a look at the websites of some of the wrestlers that came here to Cape Town:
Scott Steiner (for all the freaks)
Charlie Haas
Rikishi
TNA Wrestling (a lot of former WWE wrestlers are there now)

Problems with Visual Studio .NET 2003

For the last couple of days, I have been trying to get a form to work in an application that uses an apsx extension. The problem was, that the moment that RequiredFieldValidation was added to the form, the IsPostBack or Page.IsPostBack always just returned False instead of True when the form was submitted.

After trying this on several computers, it turned out that some default client side scripts were not installed with Visual Studio .NET 2003 to be used with IIS. To fix this, I had to run a command-line utility which was used to allow ASP.NET files to be run is called: aspnet_regiis.exe

The solution to the whole problem was:

1. Go to: C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.4322
2. Run: aspnet_regiis.exe -c

What was the annoying part is that only one PC was giving a hint about this, otherwise there was aboslutely no information why nothing is happening when the form is submitted.

Thoughts about professional wrestling

After my recent chat with Rikishi (aka Kishi) and Black Pearl while they were here in Cape Town, I started thinking of the huge problem of getting better known internationally if you don't have international television exposure. This is a huge problem in terms of keeping the fanbase and keeping the up cashflow of the organisation over a long time. This seems like a huge amount of work to become an established household name.

Touring through different countries is tedious and stressful, but that is what is requried for the fans which are ultimately the lifeblood of any sports organisation. These professional wrestlers really put a lot on the line for their career, especially since they cannot do this all of their life either.

Darth Vader and Pirate costumes have arrived

Due to the expansion of my small home based costume renting business, I have ordered a deluxe Darth Vader costume and pirate costumes for couples. Yesterday I was sitting in traffic jam, so I never got a chance to go to the post office to pick up the packages containing the pirate costumes. My supplier in Empangeni gave me the tracking numbers, but I haven't received a notification from the post office yet.

With the Darth Vader costume there was no invoice attached or in the package and I specifically asked for that. This caused a long trip out to Epping which due to the traffic is quite annoying. The trip to the post office for the other two packages will be done this Saturday.