Author: Scott

  • Bohemian Rhapsody on Classical Guitar

  • Vanity Surfing

    In an attempt to not work, I decided to have some fun ego-surfing.

  • Extreme Halloween

    I thought I had seen it all. I went over to a friends house after I gave out my candy.

  • Microsoft Xbox 1080p – Possibly

    Just recently, Microsoft went on record that their HD-DVD drive will also support 1080p. And according to their HD DVD Explained, “This new accessory will connect to the Xbox 360 console with a USB cable”. Did anyone at Microsoft bother to do the math on the amount of bandwith needed to transmit 1080p?: 1080i uncompressed: […]

  • Ultimate Cat Fighting

    If you have never seen the Ultimate Fighting Championship, this will not be worth much.

  • Sarcastic Darth

  • For Whom The Bell Tolls

    For some reason, I never grasped the pop culture reference, “For Whom the Bell Tolls”.  I knew it was from the Ernest Hemingway book, and I have sung along with the Metallica song half of my life.  But what does it mean? Metallica paints a picture of death and war: Take a look to the sky just before […]

  • Feels like 113 Degrees

    Holy of holies. FYI, Burbank is not a desert.  This is Los Angeles where it never gets too hot or too cold.

  • Track Your Conversations with Cocomment

    This new update allows you to be able to track any comments you write anywhere, no matter if the blog uses cocomment or not.  This is all over the news, but I didn’t understand how this was made possible.  What I found was that after you signup, you install a firefox extension: Once you install […]

  • Add Additional Information to Your Exceptions

    When Enterprise Library was called Microsoft Application Blocks, if you wanted to log an Exception, you would write (assuming “ex” is an Exception): ExceptionManager.Publish(ex) And if you wanted to log some extended properties you could do something like this: NameValueCollection customerInfo = new NameValueCollection(); customerInfo.Add(“name”,”scott”); customerInfo.Add(“email”,”blah@blah.com”); ExceptionManager.Publish(ex,customerInfo); Now that I am upgrading all legacy code […]