Author: jane

We seem to have a date for the next Brighton Bloggers meetup. It’s going to be on Thursday 2nd October, at Riki Tiks, kicking off from 7pm. Check the blog for any updates, and probably a list of who is planning to be there.

We went to see Calendar Girls last night, and were very amused by it. I took a look at the official site this morning and am really amused by the amount of air brushing that has gone on with the main picture… I mean, really, the idea of this film is that a group of wrinklies get their kit off for a charity calendar – it’s not meant to be that glam.

We went to see The Treason Show at Komedia last night. Its a satirical, topical sketch based show and was pretty funny. It was good to go and see some live comedy again, especially in the lead up to the Brighton Comedy Festival next month.

Blueeyes Magazine // Issue 04 has a couple of photo essays remembering September 11th 2001. Some of the photos are ones I’ve seen before, some are new. All are impressive.

And another M$ rant… I’m using SQL Server, and I want to (programatically) change the next identity for a new record in a table. So, I use the DBCC CheckIdent command. If no records have ever been inserted into the table, then I use DBCC CheckIdent ([tablename], RESEED,[number I want the next record to have]). However, if records have been inserted then I need to use DBCC CheckIdent ([tablename], RESEED, [number I want the next record to have] +1). What a load of pants!

My office pc is running XP Professional, and one thing has been driving me mad – MSN Messenger version 4.7 insists on running and then telling me that it isn’t a secure version. Finally, today I found a knowledge base article explaining how to turn it off. Yay!

I’ve just added a blog for Brighton Bloggers. It’ll either get used to organise further meetups, or as a community blog… My first post explains how to register an interest in becoming a Brighton Blogger blogger.

On my journey to work this morning I was listening to the Mercury Music Prize 2003 CD, and I’m going to have to go and buy Permission to Land by The Darkness, as their track on the Mercury Prize CD really had me wanted to jump around. The Lemon Jelly track “Ramblin’ Man” is also kind of interesting (from the Lost Horizons album), although it does remind me a lot of The Divine Comedy (not that that is a bad thing of course).