When I was in elementary school, I wanted to be a weather man. I never became a weatherman, but thanks to the Weather Underground, I have taken one step closer to reporting on the weather.
Leave the first comment ▶Wow, 5+ inches of snow
We have an honest to goodness snow storm going on in Nashville. Actually, we are closer to Columbia. Russ is enjoying his first real snow. It’s the most snow I’ve seen since living in Colorado.
Leave the first comment ▶Receive 404 Error When Implementing Custom httpHandler with .NET
Recently, I was working on a web application that provides the ability to download data to a CSV file. It is a .NET 3.5 web application.
To generate the CSV file, I created a custom httpHandler for the extension *.csv. The goal was to allow any request for a *.csv file to generate the desired output by querying a DB.
Everything worked great on my laptop but did not work when I deployed to the web server (IIS 6.0).
What gives?
The problem was that on IIS, I needed to add the *.csv extension to the MIME type map. I pointed the executable to the ASP.NET dll and viola, it worked.
Leave the first comment ▶The Kennel and Gun Range
How to get your ass kicked at monopoly
I’m the one with all the mortgaged property. I had to mortgage
everything to pay $1,275 in rent on one of Charlottes properties with
a hotel. It was game over after that.
Hi, I’m Russ
We had to board the dogs this weekend and they got a great picture of Russ. He doesn’t seem to mind being boarded.
At predators game
4 minutes left in 2nd period and still no score. Have awesome seats,
wish you were here.
Did you know…
Did you know that when you purchase a music video from the iTunes store, you can burn it to a CD and listen to it on a CD player. That is, you can make music CDs from the music videos purchased on iTunes. My wife and I were browsing some of our favorite artists and noticed they had some music videos. We purchased one and as an experiment, I created a music CD with it and went and played the song in our car. I find that cool. If you didn’t already know you could do that, now you do. If you did know, I wish I would have spoken to you sooner.
Leave the first comment ▶Vonage Sucks – I was not happy with the quality of the service
Ok, to be fair, I did not have good luck with their service. Often, calls made to us never found their way to our phone. In other instances, we would dial a number and end up speaking to someone we didn’t know, I.e. we were connected to a phone number other than the one we dialed. Finally, we would here other conversations on our calls, which I have to presume they could here us.
I never called their technical support because I was experimenting with Internet phone calling. For me, after trying Comcast and Vonage, I think the industry needs to mature some and it's not for me.
When I called to disconnect, the agent put me on hold to look up any final charges and the unpaid balance of our contract. That is pay for any of the future months that I hadn't been billed yet. Luckily for me, because I bought the Vonage box at a retail store a d paid full price, I was not subject to a contract. Had I got the service through one of their promotions, I would have been in a contract and paid the remaining months. All I had to pay was the $39.99 disconnect fee. I didn't care for this much either and i went and looked at the terms and conditions and in plain site It stated the $39.99 disconnect if I choose to disconnect the service. This falls into the category of buyer be aware.
I was offered to connect to the top tier service group and give me a couple of months free, but I had already made up my mind and wanted out.
Now that I've gone back to a hard line with AT&T, I am paying double the cost for the same service, including unlimited nation wide calls. But, I haven't missed a call yet, phone calls are going where they are suppose to, no static on the line, and finally no third parries joining our conversations.
Buyer be aware, like cell phone companies, if you are getting their service and receiving one of their boxes for free, they are signing you up for the contract and you could pay a hefty price if you choose to disconnect one day. As the saying goes, you don't get anything for free (or something like that).
3 comments so far, add yours ▶So long Gracie…you will be missed
Our beloved girl, Gracie, has gone home this past Tuesday. Her heart grew too big and finally gave way while she went outside to lay in the sun one last time.
I wish I could pet her one last time. I wish I could take her on one last walk. Had I known that Tuesday was her last day, I would have done both of these things. I’m going to miss her.
Some of you may remember Ben, our first greyhound who succumbed to bone cancer new years day in 2006. I posted about “Ben’s Rose” on my blog at that time which sprung up in our rose garden the day after he died. The rose came from the unlikeliest of a shrub, a misfit, a runt…but, it bloomed the most beautiful rose, it was unmistakable that the rose was Ben letting us know that he was free of pain.
Gracie, not to be out done, sent us a sign of her courageous spirit and her eye-catching beauty…it’s almost unbelievable. After she passed, on the way to the vet to prepare for her final arrangements, as I drove down the highway, I saw a huge bird. Vultures are not uncommon in Tennessee and at first, it appeared that I had seen one flying by the highway. But, for some reason I couldn’t take my eyes off it. As I looked for a half second longer, I realized that I was not looking at a vulture, rather I was looking at a Bald Eagle!
The white head and tail feathers were unmistakeable. She sent an eagle to me to remind me of her beauty, strength, courage, and triumphant spirit that stole our heart and that which made us love her so much.
Gracie, we will miss you. Say hello to Ben for us.
She was born on 01/11/1998 and went to her forever ever home
on 06/30/2009.
And because the life of a greyhound should never end on a sad note, here is a movie that best personifies her. Don’t let her tickle your funny bone…she’s guilty I tell you.
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