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Yummy

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 11:24:35 -0500

Yummy
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The Gosh Darn Jets

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:40:55 -0500

As most people have probably heard by now, Favre will not be retired this season, and not be in Green Bay. It turns out, late last night he was traded to the New York Jets. It really makes you wonder why the Packers don't want him, when they are obviously afraid of how good he still is since they would not trade him to an NFC North team. With Favre on the Jets, I guess now I have a team to cheer on in the AFC other than the Colts.

The Favre Saga

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:17:16 -0500

This is starting to get ridiculous. Anybody who watches football, and probably most who don't, have heard about Favre wanting to come out of retirement. The kicker is, even though he is one of the best quarterbacks in NFL history, the Packers do NOT want him back! I can understand that they have modified the offense to work with the new quarterback Aaron Rodgers, but c'mon. If you have a chance to have an all-time great, why wouldn't you take it? This whole thing is making both Favre and my Packers look somewhat ridiculous. As my wife says, he should just go to the Bears...

Summer

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:25:34 -0500

So today is the first "official" day of summer, and therefore the longest day of the year. It's actually kind of depressing though, because after today, everyday will keep getting just a little shorter (as far as sunlight) until about this time in December. So get outside and enjoy the sun before it's too late.

Constructors not allowed a return type

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 22:01:39 -0500

So if you're using Microsoft Visual Studio and programming C++, and see the generic error "constructors not allowed a return type", (and your constructor isn't returning anything) make sure you have a ; at the end of your class definition before pulling your hair out. That's why I'm bald.

600

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:45:52 -0500

600. Not normally considered THAT large of a number. When you put "home runs" after it however, that changes. Last night, Ken Griffey Jr. became the 6th player in major league history to hit that number. (He really should be the 4th since the last two were because of steroids, but that's another issue). With all of the injury plagued seasons that Griffey's had, I was very glad to see him reach the milestone. Hat's off to one of the classiest and best players in baseball history.

Old Man

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 08:47:12 -0500

Last month was already my 5-year anniversary from graduating college. Today is officially my five year anniversary of entering the "real world". Granted, I'm no longer with the same company (thankfully), but it's hard to believe it's been that long already. The sad thing is, I realized this weekend that I haven't had a summer off (without at least part-time work) in 12 years already, and I'm a LONG way from retirement. Damn, I'm getting old...

TVersity

Fri, 30 May 2008 06:51:24 -0500

Every once in a while, I run across a piece of software that is so useful, I wonder how I never knew about it before. The other day, I found TVersity. I've had a wireless home media server for over a year now, and have never really used it THAT much, because the software it came with to serve up media was terrible, and Windows Media Player was even worse. TVersity solves this problem. It is a simple, free, yet powerful media portal that can give access to whatever photos, videos, or music you want anywhere. You can even subscribe to photo RSS feeds and podcasts and view them over it. The best part for me, is that it is actually a fast and reliable means of getting music to my media server, so I can actually listen to my music on my home stereo, and view my digital pictures on my tv easily. If you are looking for a way to share music in other places (even across the Internet), check it out.

Summer

Mon, 26 May 2008 14:20:02 -0500

Ok, so I haven't done anything on here in a ridiculously long time. And I don't have an excuse, other than working on the house and working. Still, I'm a little out of touch with people, so I'm going to try and work on that. Anyway, this next 7 weeks or so are the longest days of the year, so get off your butt, and go outside and enjoy them. Hope everyone had a good Memorial Day.

Earthquake!

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 06:56:59 -0500

I thought my wife was crazy when I got back from the gym this morning, and she started telling me about how at around 5:30am it felt like the whole house was shaking. I figured she was dreaming or something, but we turned on the news, and it turns out that at 5:36am there was a 5.4 Earthquake centered a ways west of here. Thinking back, I may have felt it, but didn't think anything of it. I guess I missed the largest earthquake I've ever been in.

Flickr

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 20:54:21 -0500

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

It must be spring

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 06:57:02 -0500

It must be spring now (I know it has been technically for over a week), because I've started the grill season. It's nice to actually have a backyard to grill in and not just a driveway like last year. Now I just need people to come visit to grill for...

Rough Day?

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 06:51:44 -0500

Is it a bad thing if the thought actually crossed my mind to put some Peppermint Schnapps in with my coffee this morning? Guess it's gonna be another long day of programming...

Microsoft SmartDevice Connectivity API

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:21:39 -0500

I recently found that applications using Microsoft's SmartDevice Connectivity API does not transfer well to other computers. I could not find anything on the web about these problems, so there is the reason for this article. I hope if someone else has a problem similar to mine, that this is useful. There were a series of steps I had to take to get my desktop application which was written using the Smart Device Connectivity API (Also called CoreCon in some places) to run on another computer and communicate with the WIndows CE device I use. First off, I had to register several Visual Studio 2008 SmartDevice assemblies into the Global Assembly Cache. To do this, there is a utility called "gacutil" which makes it a piece of cake. I also ended up copying the "CoreCon" folder from two different places into the same location on the other computers. These locations are (for Windows XP) "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\corecon" and "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\CoreCon". I then needed to register the DLL's in the common files path using regsvr32. After that was done, I was getting another strange error (a 32-bit hex error code which corresponded to some generic COM error) when I tried to connect. I traced these down to not having other required DLL's. To overcome this, I had to install the .NET 2.0 SDK (about a 350 MB setup file). I'm sure that there is a better way to get the necessary files, but everything I read said you had to have Visual Studio 2008 installed, and that was not an option for the other computers I wanted to use this application. At this point I thought for sure it would work. I was now getting an error about versions. Out of curiousity, I compared both CoreCon folders mentioned earlier with the corresponding one on my computer (using WinMerge, a great open source compare utility on SourceForge). I found that the assemblies on the other computer were older than mine (because I was using .NET 3.5 and I installed the 2.0 SDK on the other machine because I could not find an SDK for 3.5, and just the framework didn't put on the required files, although I did have to install that as well). Anyway, I updated the files with the copy on my computer, and suddenly it all worked. What a mess of stuff to get an application running on another computer. Of course this took me about a half a day to solve because Microsoft does not have any documentation anywhere on this even being an issue. I know I don't have a lot of detail in this blurb, but hopefully it at least gives someone enough general direction to save them from spending the time I had to in order to get this working.

The End of an Era

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 21:51:52 -0500

Brett Favre has officially retired. One of the greatest players ever to play the game, and definitely the toughest quarterback ever. I'm sad to say I never did get to see him in person at a game. I don't even remember the Packers without Favre, so it should be an interesting season this fall. We'll miss you Favre. This article summed it up better than anything else I've seen: http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3276537