Archive for the ‘Culture’ Category
Server.Map Path Failure
This is one of those posts that exists to remind myself of my own stupidity.
So, this is the code I was writing:
string pathToFile =
Server.MapPath(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings.Get(”SmartCardMaker_PathToPdfForm”));
FileStream _stream = new FileStream(pathToFile,FileMode.Open,FileAccess.ReadWrite);
string pathToFile = Server.MapPath(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings.Get(”SmartCardMaker_PathToPdfForm”));
FileStream _stream = new FileStream(pathToFile,FileMode.Open,FileAccess.ReadWrite);
Seems pretty straightforward, but for the life of me I couldn’t figure out [...]
It’s Literally Been Months…
Since I have written a post here, and for good reason. Most of the time that I spent writing about politics and such here in comments in other places, I was unemployed. Which makes plenty of time available for writing and venting one’s spleen. It’s all well and good to call yourself a freelance software [...]
Man, I’m Tired…
…and I know that most of you are too. Sorry, I just need a moment to vent to the outside world. The kids are swimming the bacteria frappe of kindergarten and pre-school and I have a sinus blockage so bad that oxygen needs a passport to get into my lungs.
There, that feels better already.
I’m Trying to Be the Shepherd
There is an inherent contradiction, I think, in being a widely read blogger and a decent human being. As just about anyone who has been here at least once knows, I made some people mad last week. The consequence of that were three days of easily my best traffic on the web.
Things have dropped more [...]
The Definition of Ass-Hat
Has to go to CEO Howard Schultz of Starbucks, who described closing 300 stores and firing nearly seven thousand workers as a courageous decision.
Not to put too fine a point on it, Howie ol’ boy, but this has nothing to do with courage. This has to do with saving your own ass and the company [...]
There Are Some Things I Can’t Say
Why is it that I can tell my son that his Grandfather died (which was about six months ago) but I still can’t tell him that Barbaro died three years ago?
Every horse he sees he calls Barbaro. He talks about how he can run now, something I agree with.
I distinctly remember that Kentucky Derby [...]
I May Not Know Much About Art, But I Know What I Like…
Haven’t we been here before? Like many things, Monty Python says it best…
The Ultimate Iraq War Weasel Word
The prize goes to “precipitous”, as in “precipitous withdrawal“. Left out is any practical definition of what that means. Politically, it means any course of actions that doesn’t go perfectly. And given the right-wing screeders who claim that the Iraq War has been won, there’s little doubt about which way they will go.
I’d dearly [...]
How The World Should End On E.R.
So (and forgive me for knowing this) People Magazine is reporting that George Clooney is coming back to ER. Okay, it was on the WordPress home page and I saw it, so sue me.
Anyway, I clearly remember the last episode of ER that I watched. It was when the helicopter landed on Romano, killing him. [...]
Undamped Oscillators and the Free Market
I was listening to an NPR report today on the options for economic stimulus. As usual, there was a free market type arguing that government should stay out of things and let the market take care of it.
Let’s ignore the fact that letting the market take care of it is what got us swirling around [...]