A juggling technophile shares personal stories, challenges, humor and perhaps some political commentary.
I have a little ASP application that works fine on my development server. On the production server I get:
CDO.Message.1 error ‘80040220’
The “SendUsing” configuration value is invalid.
These are the things that make web application development a bit maddening.
My forearms have had a fairly constant burning pain the past couple of days. I assumed it was to over typing. They feel like the muscle wants to pull from the bone. It suddenly dawned on me today why! I have formed a habit of juggling in the parking lots while waiting at the schools for the students to dismiss from their activities. Specifically, I’ve started putting 15 minutes of juggling in everyday while waiting to pick Amy up from kindergarten. The juggling relaxes me and I feel my control really coming back strong! I’ll be juggling 6 or 7 bean bags in a few weeks.
I’m very disappointed that the MySQL Migration Toolkit is unidirectional. It will take a variety of databases and bring the structure and data into MySQL but won’t go the other way. I know it doesn’t seem to be in MySQL’s best interest to create a tool that would port away from their product but it really would serve them. Guess I need to see what DTS can do.
Writers get writer’s block. Programmers get coder’s block. Breaking the block is the same. Just do it! Writer’s must write; Coders must code. Time to set the blocked problem aside and coding something simple and fun!
Anyone remember the phallus on the cover of the Little Mermaid? Like the dolphins, our eyes are trained to see beyond the innocent pictures. I bet we see more raunch in Disney flicks and kids shows than we give the artists credit. (link broken again)Watch an artist start with an apparent dirty picture and make it innocent. (could be construed as NSFW but it shouldn’t be)
Update: Youtube killed the video but you can find it by searching Blingo (aka Google with prizes) for "ne to chto podumali". I’ve also updated the link.
Update: link updated.
I just watched the University of Florida student getting tasered and read the account of the falsification of the police report. I am appalled! The video indicates no wrong doing! The questions seemed appropriate and Kerry seemed willing to answer. The growing abusive police state in this nation must be contained! What growing abusive police state? The abusive police state that commands on of our military personnel, who put his life at risk to protect your freedoms, to stand up so the officer can shoot him. The students who sat idly by should have risen from their chairs when the officers stood threateningly behind the student. They should have made a human barricade and assured the freedom of speech that our forefathers gave their lives for during the Revolutionary War. How we dishonor them! Our government exists by the will of the people and if the government is stepping out of line then the people must step up! Besides, what’s college if you haven’t been arrested at a protest?
Easier said than done you say? I would have sat idly by also if I were there you say? You don’t know me very well then. All that said, I acknowledge that maybe there were other circumstances not conveyed in the video or the media that led to this event. Perhaps the student had an altercation with the police earlier.
As Naomi Wolf has rightfully pointed out, the tasering of Andrew Meyer will be remembered as a watershed moment in American history. That much is certain. The only thing that remains to be seen is how we, as Americans, react to it. Will we sit passively by while our Constitution and our Democracy are murdered right before our eyes?
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The choice is clear: either we fight fascism right now with all our power, or we will be the next ones on the ground with a policeman’s knee on our throats and 50,000 volts of electricity coursing through our bodies.
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Update: Is that officer laughing?!
Right! Sure. Billy you just keep fooling yourself.
"These are great jobs with bright, creative people who have created something that’s special here," Haslam said. "When you talk about the media production business, now you talk about Knoxville in the same league as New York and Chicago and L.A. And maybe this is an even better place." [Source]
Development is hard but if its really hard then you are likely doing something wrong!
Why?
Statement of Purpose: To restore habeas corpus for those detained by the United States.
Tennessee: Alexander (R-TN), Nay Corker (R-TN), Nay
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See also and also. On the positive side, at least http://www.senate.gov/ is using ColdFusion.
Wow! That’s a really big fan between me and that truck full of manure.
If you have two servers with the same directory structure and you are ftp’d and remote desktop’d into one of these servers, when you ftp a file if it doesn’t immediately appear in the directory in the remote desktop, then you are probably ftp’d into the wrong server.
To non-developers, I acknowledge that as you read that you probably hear Charlie Brown’s adult wah wahs in your head. For that, I apologize!
You haven’t lived until you’ve experienced lunch lotteries and toilet paper rationing!
Overheard in Target.
If you are trying to get an Active Server Pages class (instead of .NET) application to work on your Windows 2003 and not getting any pages returned, look in the Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager at the Web Services Extensions. You are likely to see that Active Server Pages is Prohibited. Simply right click and choose Allow. Now your ASP classic application will function!
Remember! Today is Talk Like a Pirate Day!
Special thanks to Aaarrr mate at file under awesome.
