June 2006 Blog Posts
One of my test machines runs IIS 5.0 on Windows 2000 Service Pack 4. It ran a website based on ASP.NET 1.1 which I migrated into a nice .NET 2.0 Web Application Project. This built and ran fine on both Windows XP and Windows 2003 but when it was installed to the Windows 2000 box, I got that less than encouraging page in my browser that reads 'Server Application Unavailable' in big red letters along with a note to check the error log.
The Error log had three errors:
Error : aspnet_wp.exe stopped unexpectedly
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Back in the day, Robert McLaws wrote a nice Visual Studio plug-in called Visual Blogger which let you blog from the VS 2003 IDE. According to his blog, he then went away and got a proper job for a bit and then left but there's no more Visual Blogger stuff. I've looked for a little while now but there seems to be no equivalent blogging plug-in for VS2005. Tell me I'm wrong. There must be one out there somewhere. Anyone?
Does anyone else think that Dell's XPS M2010 should audition for a bit part in the new Trasnformers movie? That can't be a laptop. It looks like a sprite from an old 8-bit platformer. If you want a desktop PC, buy one. Is anyone really going to buy an M2010 and then use it as a laptop? It's over 8kg!! Why just buy a LAN party rig and carry that around instead?
I'm not sure what else this week can throw at me - I'm already partially convinced I'm in Avalon's sur-REAL level I wrote about yesterday.
It's blazing hot outside and yet wifey and I are both hacking up phlegm and losing our voices with a cold each.
Tonight, I'll be watching a Gilbert & Sullivan review by the local village choir (think old, out of tune voices plus wifey as the exception) with my in-laws.
Last night, our house lost power completely and utterly. We spent the night listening...
It had been an exhausting night for Ishmael. Playing solo was always harder in Avalon but the rewards were greater. He was now a Level 12 bishop and had been approached to beta test the new sur-REAL level that the nine sisters were hard at work developing.Here the challenge was to keep the mind focussed and flag the bugs in the system while beating the system, if it was beatable. The sisters had already lost several beta-testers - well, they were still in the game but lost to various degrees of autism and dyspraxia. Those who had hacked their characters...
A day that started on a low - see previous post - ends on a high with a trip to see Joe Satriani at Birmingham Symphony Hall ably - for a change - supported by Johnny A, a guitarist I'd not encountered before. Smoother, jazzier sounds but no less impressive. As you can see from the photo, he looks like a cross between Dave Stewart and Don Box - he's on the left by the way - but has better guitar chops than both :).
And then came Joe. I've already mentioned how good the new album Super Colossal is,...
Oxford was never intended for cars to travel through it. Bikes maybe. Horses and carts probably. It wouldn't take a mathematical genius to figure out that the time it takes to travel into Oxford increases exponentially per accident on a main road within 5 miles of the city. Even when there aren't any roadworks. Sixty minutes to go four miles. Sigh.
More cool blog tools to play with. This one's powered by frazy.com
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I'm starting to like Flickr. Nikon is sponsoring a tag \ competition there to win a new Coolpix camera. Here are a handful of yesterday's entrants. Details below.
1. Delphinus delphis floating, 2. New Mexico Skies, 3. p7_bottm, 4. Recruiting, 5. Natural Combination, 6. Behind my walls Made with fd's Flickr toys.
Yes - I survived! Oh hang on - no one is being evicted yet are they? For those of you scratching their heads and saying 'what?', the Yakyak forums are having a season of Big Blogger and I'm one of the sphere-mates. The main rules are at least one post a day and the completion of a few secret tasks along the way. Then evictions will take place based on something or another.
Greetings, all yakyakkers. Expect egg-tossing, world cup birthdays and the world's largest pinhole camera in the near future.
P.S. Outlook 2007 is the best feedreader I've used...
So I've made it to 200 Posts without tearing down the site, re-editing everything and starting again. Not bad for me. Time to take stock of it all.
It's taken 26 months to get here.
I've written two books (Beg ASP.NET DB and Beg VB.NET DB) and tech-ed-led Beg ASP.NET 2.0, C# and VB editions.
I went to Germany, saw Blue Man, Brad and Eric.
I got married, got two godchildren, moved house, had my my car broken into and turned thirty.
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