Navigation to the web page was cancelled

Have you been facing this error in Visual Studio 2005?
Other symptoms:
XML files will not open with Internet Explorer (tried with both IE6 and IE7). Schema files (*.xsd) will open fine though.
Visual Studio (2005) will not display any schema files in the source view. Instead a message saying "Navigation to the web page was cancelled" appears.

I was stuck with this problem for over 2 months and it took me a very long while to even identify the symptoms in any clarity. The internet, Microsoft and Google provided little help. Until finally an obscure post in a stylus studio forum had a similar thread.

Anyway, the cause is that the msxml3.dll was not registered. This is the dll that enables viewing of xml in IE.
The fix is to re-register the dll. Hit start, Run and type in the following:
regsvr32 msxml3.dll

This re-registers the dll. Problem solved.
Apparently, one of the reasons this error can occur is because a shareware tool called Oxigen (an XML editor) was uninstalled.

Sunset Boulevard

Come down with me, girl

I'll show you the lights,

We'll walk to the road's end

As you take in the sights.

Would you like me to just be

Or i could give you some talk

Down till the road's end

About sunset boulevard.

As we walk hand in hand,

Can you hear them play?

Music for the blue dirge

They sing here everyday

They mourn for us, girl

Who walk back and forth

The daily last walk

Of the walking ghosts

We live here, don't we

All our evening lives

We spend here too much

Our self pitying smiles.

There are friends here too

Who shed a tear

Martyrs they are, girl

Just like me and you!

Waging their own wars

in expanded mindspaces

Alone inside their mental shells.

Against limiting horizons

and restricted views,

And seeing the world

from the other man's shoes.

And let me tell you my girl,

When it's all said and done,

They all will realize

that before the fun

of a glorious society

of vast expansiveness,

and freedom and space,

it is soon time to run.

The day is over

and it's evening too soon.

But the clock stands still

while the light fades away.

And here we are girl,

in the last light of day,

Once again at road's end

and making our way

Past the souls of the martyrs

Who walk here and away.

Anytime you feel like

taking a walk,

You must come down with me, girl

to the sunset boulevard.

A text of patience

Just a reminder to myself to download some rtf / html to mediawiki convertor.
http://search.cpan.org/~diberri/HTML-WikiConverter-0.55/lib/HTML/WikiConverter.pm can convert from html straight to wikitext markup. But it needs perl. I'll get around to doing that.

Or maybe use an in-browser editor like MozEx or in fact, any of the ones mentioned here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_editor_support#How_to_open_articles_in_your_text_editor
Before that, just check if Preferences → Editing → "Use external editor by default" is chosen on the wiki.

Something to get my hands dirty with this weekend.

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Jaguar XK 150 in India

After yet another long hiatus, I come back. Behold the XK from Jaguar. That too in India! My patriotism just went up a couple notches.



Of interest would be to note that Forsyth's character Peter Miller, protagonist of The Odessa File owned and drove the XK 120, and loved driving it more than he did his wife (intentional ambiguity introduced in sentence construction). Forsyth's description of Peter's love for his motor was done so well, it made me look up the XK 120 on the internet and learn so much about this masterpiece auto. And it also bled my heart to see that in the movie adaptation of the Odessa File, the car was changed to a Mercedes. Why? I mean couldn't they get an XK? I think half the movie was ruined because the car was changed. That too to a Mercedes. With all due respect, I think the Merc as a brand is a little too hyped. Everyone wants to own a Merc. It's a little too wannabe for me. How about a classic era Shelby Cobra? Or a 1968 Mustang? Or a Porsche 911 RS? I think these have way more character.