Photoshop Hand Tool stuck

When working in Photoshop I would frequently get stuck on the hand tool and it would not change no matter which tool I selected. Some searching on Google gave the advice to restart Photoshop but that did not work. Sometimes it would go away on it's own if I did something else. I have now discovered that all you have to do is press the space bar. I'm using CS3 and it's been mentioned that it occurs in CS2 as well. Let me know if this happens to any CS4 users. By the way, I'm looking forward to CS5! Maybe I will get a copy :)

Dammit, I should have moved to Cityplace.

http://www.mytelus.com/cityplace/index.vm

With a fibre optic network going directly into the building, at every third floor, more or less and then being distributed by ethernet, this is the fastest residential Internet access at 100mbps (50 times faster than cable and 2,000 times faster than a 56k modem).

It's the most technologically advanced Digital Neighbourhood in Canada with $30 million spent on a high-capacity fibre-optic network.

If I had just known this two weeks ago, I would have moved to Cityplace!

Here is another great blog about it along with great comments.
http://www.blogto.com/tech/2009/03/bringing_fibre_to_toronto/

Here's why you need to hate Bell. They are ruining the internet. Thanks to CRTC for increasing the stranglehold that the monopoly has on Canadian internet.
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/08/12/bell-crtc-internet-usage.html

Does Citizen's Arrest Exist in Canada?

I ask the Government of Ontario if there is such thing here as citizen's arrest? Does Section 494 of the Criminal Code of Canada not exist? Do you have to wear a fancy security uniform, carry a baton, a GUN or some other weapon in order to perform citizen's arrest? Please tell me how can one avoid a kidnapping charge while restraining a suspected thief until the police arrive? Maybe I should become a shoplifter because I have learned that you can get away with it. When accused of shoplifting in Canada, you can just walk away.

TheStar.ca: Grocer wouldn't chase thieves again

Visit here to sign the petition and support David Chen
http://www.vracommittee.com/

Microsoft releases May 2009 AJAX Control Tookit -- and wastes everyone's time

So I googled for an HTML editor to see what's out there and I found out that Microsoft released an updated AJAX Control Toolkit that includes an HTMLEditor. Sounds like just what I needed! I could go for FCKEditor which I've used before but an HTML Editor supported by Microsoft sounds pretty good, right? Wrong!

As I was on my way to downloading the new release, the first few comments I saw were

Poor because have bugs :( Please fix this bug for next release

dated just today, Sunday June 14th.

Here's some more complaints:

Don't you people test this stuff. I am so sick of debugging your code. My managers look at the little samples expecting it to do that and doesn't realize it don't quite work like the sample in a real world application. Again, I am soooooo sick of spending hours in the forum and google to find some OFF THE WALL FIX to make it work in a real world situation. Test your code...I do.

Release build will crash VS 2008...

How about an installer? How about some instructions on upgrading from prior versions? There are a lot of nuts and bolts to this stuff and a readme that says, "just copy and go" just AIN'T ENOUGH! My system is almost completely screwed to the wall, following installation "instructions" like that.

Following the entire slew of complaints was this post:

We posted a minor update to the AJAX Control Toolkit to address several of the issues described below including the issue concerning performing a build in Release mode.

Needless to say, it sounds like I should hold off on the ASP.NET Ajax update until Microsoft gets their act together on this package. Who the hell wants to spend hours debugging Microsoft's code and have nothing to show for it? I sure don't!

Here's the Codeplex link for more details:
AJAX Control Toolkit May 2009 Release Reviews

WordPress TV: How-To Create an eCommerce Website with WordPress in under 5 minutes

I just saw this great 5 minute video from WordPress TV on how to create an e commerce website using WordPress and the free plug-in WP E-commerce. This plugin creates a shopping cart, account information and you can hook it up with your PayPal account among other choices like Google Checkout.

http://wordpress.tv/2009/06/08/create-an-ecommerce-website-with-wordpress-in-under-5-minutes/

It's Definitely a must-watch!

Google Android laptop comes out Fall 2009!

Acer netbooks to run on Google platform

This is going to put a dent in Microsoft Windows prices. Whether or not it performs better than Windows 7 is irrelevant. This free operating system from Google is certainly going to entice the general public to move away from Windows and make it even less justifiable to pay for premium Microsoft OS prices.

It's exciting how this announcement comes at the heels of the release of the search engine Bing, Microsoft's challenge at putting a dent in Google's search engine.

Sims 3, get it while it's hot!

The much anticipated Sims 3 is available for download on torrents weeks before its retail release on June 2, 2009!

The pirates are saying it works fine and it seems so judging by the popularity of the torrent.... :)

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2009/05/sims-3-leaked-to-torrent-sites-weeks-before-retail-release.ars

Hope you're having a good weekend! I know I will!