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Update: Now there’s a notice saying there are maintenance going on at 7AM EST.
Update2: Now it seems MSDNAA is up again. Just re-download the downloader and begin the download. No error for me.

I’ve been trying to install MS SQL Server 2008 with the installer from MSDN Academic Alliance (MSDNAA) but it keep on giving me error “The drive root is not a valid location” no matter which location I chose. According to this site, they said MSDNAA will be down until further notice. Seems I gotta try again in tomorrow morning.

MSDNAA is for colleges and schools allowing students to download Microsoft products such as Windows, Visual Studio, Office, MS SQL Servers and so on for educational use for free.

I just saw this jeans on mashable.com and it fancies me on the spot! Basically what makes this jeans cool is, it has extra pockets for the gadgets like iPhone/iPod touch and thumb drives. Those extra pockets has micro-fiber interior so you won’t have to worry for getting your shiney iPhone scratched. In fact, that’s one of the difficult situation when I hit the road with my iPod touch.

Usually, my iPod stays in left pocket while the mobile phone is in the other and I don’t sometimes have any other pocket to place my house keys depends on the jeans or shorts I wear. In fact, I do give priority to iPod by putting keys and phone together (N73 is one tough phone).

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