I’ve been using a Dell Latitude E6400 laptop for work recently. Each night, I typically hibernate my laptop so the next day I can resume where I’ve left off, avoiding the whole shutdown and subsequent power-on sequence. It has served me well in the past. However, lately I’ve found my laptop sometimes powered on in the morning and sitting at the unlock dialog as if I had pressed the power button to wake it up. Strange, right?Read more…
I’m working on a project today that deals with date ranges being stored in SQL Server. Imagine a row in a table with a starting and an ending date. My desired output is to transform each single row into several, one for each date within the given date range. Read more…
Here are some photos from our recent trip to the Gold and Silver Pawn Shop in Las Vegas. I got to see Rick and meet The Old Man. Big Hoss and Chumlee were not there. It was amazing to see how small the shop was–the TV show makes the place look huge. I was expecting it to be about twice the size, but then again, the place isn’t as crowded when they film it. At the time, Rick had a torn ACL, so he was limping around the shop and looked like he was trying to grin through the pain.
I’ve been so busy with work the past couple of weeks, I have had to forego my typically daily walks with the pugs. I feel bad that all they do is sleep and eat. They wait for any chance they can get to hop in the car or go outside if they see me getting up to go somewhere. Usually a 30-minute walk will tire them out for the night. Once I’m done with this project, I’ll try to get back on schedule with them.
The lead story of today’s local paper was titled Terror suspect linked to Visalia. When you read the article, it talks about a guy in Sprinfield, Illinois who was plotting to blow up a building. What is the link to my hometown in California? His alleged MySpace profile in which he indicated a hometown of Visalia, CA according to the State Journal-Register of Illinois.
There is, however another city of Visalia in the country–one that is much closer to Illinois–in Kentucky. Since the MySpace profile has been removed, I can’t verify what it actually said for the hometown. It’s not clear from the reports if it could have just said “Visalia” or if it explicitly listed the state. The same MySpace profile said the guy attended high school in Michigan. The three states, Illinois, Michigan, and Kentucky are in close proximity to each other–much closer to Kentucky than California from Illinois or Michigan. I’m not saying the reporting is necessarily wrong, but it is a big jump to report that there is definitely a link to our city rather than another when there is no other evidence–school records or family members with the same last name–living in this city. I think somebody might have jumped the gun when searching for Visalia and finding the California city rather than the one in Kentucky.
Now you can watch the guys from Mystery Science Theater 3000 live on the big screen in Fresno. Check out the details here: http://www.ncm.com/Fathom/Comedy/RiffTrax.aspx or add it to your Google Calendar by clicking the button below.
I have a working solution to the embedded image in an embedded stylesheet problem, but I would appreciate any suggestions for improvement. This does its own substitution of the CSS file in the Designer class for the IDE. Transparency in PNGs don’t work so far, however. I’ll post some of the code here, but a full example solution is available for download. I’d love to hear comments on this. Thank you! Read more…
George Carlin, 71, died of heart failure Sunday evening. He was the first comedian I remember seeing who spoke about real things in a painfully honest way, all while being funny as hell. In his writings and performances, there is a philosophy of truth and empowerment that I respect and admire.
We are at a Rilo Kiley concert where we just saw a group called Lavender Diamond. It must be a put-on because the singer was just so corny. Nope, this girl is for real. Her choreography mimicked an 8-year old ballerina dancer as she kept spinning around, arms waving and tugging at her shiny dress.
The singing was annoying at best. She kept saying really goofy, new-agey things between songs about our beautiful planet, the moon, and all the wonderful technology/electricity on-stage. I couldn’t help but laugh out loud at her banter — and I wasn’t alone. The audience was done with her and applauded at three different points during the last song hoping it would prompt her to leave.
We didn’t get video of the show, but I found an official music video that showcases the lunacy. I love how she’s constantly about to fall down off of those roller skates.
Look in Scripts/NerdDinner.js for this block of code: //If we've found exactly one place, that's our address. //lat/long precision was getting lost here with toLocaleString, changed to toString if (NerdDinner._points.length === 1) { $("#Latitude").val(NerdDinner._points[0].Latitude.toString()); $("#Longitude").val(NerdDinner._po […]
The Html.DropDownList() method accepts an optionLabel string parameter, the text of which is inserted at the top of the dropdown list (with an empty value). It doesn't necessarily have anything to do with which item of the list is selected. You could create a SelectList using your MyList and specify a selected value (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr […]
