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  • Airing it on the web

    If you aren’t going to secure your security cameras (why yes! Some of those do say k12 and edu), then perhaps you should not name them "Peniswart" and "greenshit".

    For the voyuers out there, someone has put several of the public cams on one page.

  • Today’s magic numbers

    Today was June 22nd of 2006 or in English notation 6/22/6. I realized this while starting a check as the cashier rang up my purchases. The total came to $26.62! I love it when that happens. The other day I tried to get a picture of my odometer at 111122 (having missed the opportunity for 111111) and when I missed that I hoped to get 111123 but traffic didn’t permit.

    Dinner was $36.93…all factors of 3 and geometrically elegant with 9 being an upturned 6 bookended by 3s.

  • For the record…

    None of my arsensal of antique pci video cards have available drivers for Windows XP (yes, they are that old!). Despite knowing this, I periodically shut down all my machines and go through the exercise of removing and trading out video cards to try to get a second monitor working on my workstation. Eons ago when I had two functioning monitors my productivity felt so much greater. Usually I do this at the crux of a critical deadline (call it avoidance.. call it procrastination.. whatever label, it is just plain stupid.).

    So, I now put this down for the world to see so that 6 months from now, when I am certain that I overlooked a compatible car in the stack of useless hardware or buried in the depths of a dusty case, I can be reminded that I’ve been through this exercise enough!

  • It’s because our a/c is broken

    CNN reports: Study: Earth ‘likely’ hottest in 2,000 years

    The National Academy of Sciences, reaching that conclusion in a broad review of scientific work requested by Congress, reported Thursday that the “recent warmth is unprecedented for at least the last 400 years and potentially the last several millennia.”

    A panel of top climate scientists told lawmakers that the Earth is heating up and that “human activities are responsible for much of the recent warming.”

    This is Bush’s fault!

    Other new research Thursday showed that global warming produced about half of the extra hurricane-fueled warmth in the North Atlantic in 2005, and natural cycles were a minor factor

    Or maybe Jesus’…Because, it was cool when he was around.

    The Bush administration has maintained that the threat is not severe enough to warrant new pollution controls…

    Yes! It’s Bush’s fault!

    The National Academy of Sciences is a private organization chartered by Congress to advise the government of scientific matters.

    Ok then…it’s Jesus’ fault.

  • Look at that rainbow!

    As I continued my journey I envisioned the glory that I would find beyond the next bend. There would be an inn where I could rest me weary feet and put down a pint or two. As I made the bend, Murphy the Leprechaun sprang from a bush waving his hands and chanting. Suddenly the path split and extended. Murphy declared, "Aye’ve split me treasure and placed it in pots at the ends of these paths. It’s all yours! If’n you meet me challenge."

    I gandered down the left split rolling gently downhill and a good 3 day’s journey saw a huge rainbow then a sharp cliff. Looking to the right, the path climbed a steep hill then meandered down to the inn and continued on. At the inn was a smaller rainbow and the path had stretched to make the inn a good 5 day’s journey.

    Murphy continued, "Get to me gold an’ it’s yours but you must make the journey in 2 days. You can have both pots if you move quickly. The size of the rainbow represents the relative size of the treasure. At the end of two days, me spell will break and the path will return to normal leaving you stranded where you stand. I recommend ye make it to the inn within two days!"

    And then he was gone.

    Update: Looks like he threw some trolls on the path to make it interesting.

  • Need video drivers for sis 5598/6326

    Does anyone have video drivers for the SiS 5598/6326 pci video card that actually work with Windows XP?

    UPDATE: Just not an option for XP.

  • PHP Programmer in Knoxville Needed Immediately

    One of my clients is allocating some budget to bring on an assistant to help help a project we are doing. If you know PHP (and Smarty would be a bonus!) and are available for parttime or fulltime contracting for a few days, contact me with a rate. We are making customizations to x-cart.

  • WWASD

    I quit asking my question and now I pay a price.

  • Torn

    I’m tired. I want to go to bed.
    My wife is in pain. I want to come to her aid.
    My clients need their projects complete. I want to work through the night.
    I’m constantly conflicted. Such is life.

  • Woot! Wine!

    Woot has a new angle, they are selling wine. Yes, you heard correctly, http://wine.woot.com/”>. For connoisseurs of the grape, this could be an excellent way to acquire some fine wine at fine prices.

    For those that don’t know, Woot lists 1 product per day at midnight Central time (GMT -6) and sells it until they are out of stock. It might be junk or it might be an iPod $60 cheaper than anywhere else you could find one. Often the great stuff sells out in the first half hour of listing. Last I checked, Woot is affliated with Overstock.com.

    What is woot.wine? We were all pretty despondent when we couldn’t work out the logistics for massage.woot.com. We started to question the very idea of spinning off another new dot-woot. But then woot.com offered our Rinfrescante wine and we were positively deluged with inquiries from friends and family pleading for more (of course the cheapskates wanted more – they got it for free). This was enough “market research” for us. We reactivated our wine-industry hookup and wine.woot.com was conceived.
    …
    So every week, wine.woot.com will uncork a sweet new wine deal.
    Can I really buy wine on the Internet? Thanks to our esteemed Supreme Court, recent and dramatic changes in how wine can be sold and delivered in the U.S. allow wine.woot.com to bring wine directly from the winery to you.
    What states can you ship to?Thanks to stick-in-the-mud buzzkilling state legislators, wine may only be delivered to the following states:

    * Arizona (expect longer delivery times)
    * California
    * Colorado
    * Connecticut
    * District of Columbia
    * Florida
    * Idaho
    * Illinois
    * Indiana (expect longer delivery times)
    * Iowa
    * Louisiana
    * Massachusetts (expect longer delivery times)
    * Michigan
    * Missouri
    * Minnesota
    * Nebraska
    * Nevada
    * New Hampshire
    * New Jersey (expect longer delivery times)
    * New Mexico
    * New York
    * North Carolina
    * North Dakota
    * Ohio
    * Oregon
    * South Carolina
    * Texas
    * Vermont
    * Virginia
    * Washington
    * West Virginia
    * Wisconsin
    * Wyoming

    If your state’s not on the list, no wine for you! Take it up with your state assembly person. We comply with all federal, state, and local laws in providing this wine.

    Of course Tennessee is not on the list. We wouldn’t want to lose our reputation as being a bunch of backwards hillbillies. Now whar’s my shine?!

    Little sidenote, The Tennessee General Assembly website looks like one of the politicans had his highschool age child build the site. "Pages Created and Maintained by: Legislative Information Services"

  • Give me corporate America!

    So, just why do I want to give up the good life of working from home and go back to cubeville? So I can take stuff like this and turn it into stuff like that and still get a paycheck. Oh, and there is the "having food in the pantry" thing that seems nice.

  • Server Status

    I disabled a few unessential services, like FTP, did a magic reboot taking a brief stop in Safe Mode, and CFMX 7 started working! CFMX 6.1 continues to not work.

    Others have had this issue. I fail to see any clear resolution. Right now I am pondering uninstalling 6.1.

    Now to apply the latest 7 hotfixes then get back to work.

    Btw, this was done but may or may not have helped.

  • It’s a official…I’m stupid!

    The error "500 unexpected end of part" is caused by not including a backslash on a move operation with CFFILE.

    <cffile action="MOVE" source="c:\temp\foo.jpg" destination="c:\temp\newdirectory">

    Should be:

    <cffile action="MOVE" source="c:\temp\foo.jpg" destination="c:\temp\newdirectory\">

    Written that way makes it seem self-evident. However, the documentation states "If not an absolute path, it is relative to the source directory." implying that:

    <cffile action="MOVE" source="c:\temp\foo.jpg" destination="newdirectory">

    should be alright. The backslash is still necessary!

    The big burn on this stupid mistake is that I’m now a day and a half behind schedule on my work, my development server still doesn’t work, and I have to move forward by publishing my work directly to the client’s website (yuck!). Fortunately it is a staging server and not a production server.

  • Here’s a challenge for you

    Explain "modesty" to a 10 year old boy.

    Update: World Central’s Student Dictionary did the best job in the time I alloted to find it.

    This doesn’t help explain modesty.

  • ISSUE REPRODUCED ON A DIFFERENT SERVER!

    And the beast that stated my living hell is back! This time on the production server which is a CFMX 7 server.

    500 unexpected end of part
    unexpected end of part

    This occurred trying to submit a file via a form and recorded the filename in the database.