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If you keep getting the following error message in vb.net, you are not alone: Could not load file or assembly ‘Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word, Version=11.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c’ or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified. Usually, what happens is your code works perfectly fine in your dev box, but your clients report getting the error above. Don’t waste time on debugging at your dev side, because the real issue is that your clients are missing some dll files due to different licenses. ...

Oh my gosh… I have been getting calls from this # for like a week straight! I never picked it up coz it was an unknown caller. No message left ever. Before finding ways to block this I googled this # and to my surprise hack of links returned back. Here are some of them: http://phoneowner.info/Number.aspx/3108629027 http://www.namethatnumber.net/phone-call-from/caller-id/310-862-9027 and a lot more links… It turns out to be the toyota customer service trying to rate my experience with them. Yes, I had an oil change with them about a week ago. So, it’s legit, but isn’t that a bit annoying? Perhaps it’s commission based. If they email me instead of calling I will be more than happy to fill out the survey. ...

This is actually a song name… yeah, you guessed it right. United Airlines broke someone’s guitar. Apparently the issue didn’t get resolved and so the guy wrote a song about it. Be warned! This song is really catchy. [youtube &color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YGc4zOqozo&feature=player_embedded United, United You broke my Taylor guitar United, United Some big help you are You broke it, you should fix it Why not just admit it I should have flown with someone else or gone by car ‘Cause United breaks guitars ...

Finally, gmail, gcal, gdocs, all those are out of beta, yeah~~~ What’s the big deal? Ah… I don’t know… ^^; Technologically google has always served me well, and so this seems to be more of a marketing move than anything. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/google-apps-is-out-of-beta-yes-really.html

Man… this is scary… A housing building fell down on its own… I have never seen anything like that: http://news.163.com/09/0627/09/5CQAJ72Q0001124J.html More pictures at: http://news.163.com/special/00012700/sh090627.html

Here is the post: http://preinsiders.com/home/2009/06/26/palm-pre-mojo-sdk-download-leaked-to-the-web/ Rapidshare Torent (mininova) My Unspace 2Shared Mediafire

It’s always fun to watch animals. If you have 5 mins to kill here is a little story about a mother squirrel and a baby squirrel at UCLA. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jByfWOLmjo [youtube &hl=en&fs=1&]

I came across this post which talks about this book called Yes! 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive. Even though the context is business-oriented, it’s still good to know and apply these persuasive skills in life. If you want to know a little more details of one of these points, check out the post I mentioned before. Inconvenience the audience by creating an impression of product scarcity. Introduce herd effect in highly personalized form. ...

Haha, this picture reminds me of Hong Kong. ;)

There’s been a lot of buzz on iphone and palm pre. Well, let’s look at the numbers. Apple says it sold more than 1 million iPhone 3GSs. Palm has sold 150,000 Pres. Of course, I am sure there must be loopholes in getting these numbers. But hey, that’s still quite a big gap between 1,000,000 and 150,000 !!! I think it is fair to say that, the app developers will flock to wherever having a bigger customer base. According to our numbers, iphone is the winner for now. ...