I’ve been using Flickr for a few months now and have been really happy with it. There have been some really cool Flickr projects and here’s one of them. Flickr Color Fields. It allows you to pick a color and view pictures from Flickr that have the same color. (via Sarah Lane)
Now Playing: Pigeon John - Same Dark Sweater (w/ Joey the Jerk)
Well, that was quick. I found a solution for the comment spam problem. I’ve added a control that requires the user to input a code to post comments. The great thing about it is that there was no code to recompile. The control is the Clearscreen HIP Control. To install the control on your .Text blog copy the dll to your bin directory, add one line of code to your web.config and modify your postcomment.aspx file to include the control. It’s really, really simple. For more information on the control visit Miguel Jimenez’s blog and view this post and this post.
Now Playing: The Clash - Should I Stay Or Should I Go
I really, really hate comment spam. Recently the ol’ blog has been hit pretty hard by comment spam. I’ve deleted the spam within hours but like an evil ex-girlfriend it keeps coming back. Which is why I need to do something about it, quickly. So I’ll be upgrading the .Text blog software to the new version of community server. .Text was written and maintained by Scott Watermasysk. Last year Scott started working for Telligent Systems and started working on .Text, now community server: blogs, full time. (For more info on community server: blogs see this post.) So be prepared changes are a commin.
Now Playing: Invisible Fireworks - The Weather In My Eyes
When I was in intern working for the Mouse I often used ten codes to talk to the PC LAN team over the radio. I’ve forgotten most of it but thanks to lockergnome I now have the full list again. Use this in your next Halo 2 game to spread confusion all over your team!
10-1 - Weak signal
10-2 - Good signal
10-3 - Stop transmitting
10-4 - Affirmative, OK
10-5 - Relay message to [X]
10-6 - Busy
10-7 - Out of service
10-8 - In service
10-9 - Repeat transmission
10-10 - Negative
10-11 - [X] On duty
10-12 - Stand by
10-13 - Existing conditions
10-14 - Message, information
10-15 - Message delivered
10-16 - Reply to message
10-17 - Enroute
10-18 - Urgent
10-19 - Contact, in contact with
10-20 - Location
10-21 - Contact [X] by phone
10-22 - Disregard
10-23 - Arrived at scene
10-24 - Assignment completed
10-25 - Report to, meet
10-26 - Estimated arrival time
10-27 - License or permit information
10-28 - Ownership information
10-29 - Records check
10-30 - Danger, caution
10-31 - Pick up
10-32 - [X] units needed (give number and type)
10-33 - Help me quick
10-34 - Time check
10-36 - Time check
Now Playing: Steve Taylor - The Moshing Floor
Now Playing: Fluffy - Dead Horse Grin
Who was the brainaic who did this? Someone apparently has created a version of Pac-Man in Excel. Why? The dev used each cell as one pixel to create the game. Cool but dumb. (via Chris and Scott.)
Now Playing: Steve Taylor - This Disco (Used to be a Cute Cathedral)
Now Playing: The Prayer Chain - Big Wheel
Two hundred posts. I bet many of you never thought I’d make it to this magic number. Frankly neither did I. Blogging has been loads of fun. I kinda wish I had a larger presence but I’ve always said I don’t blog for anyone but myself. If a million people read it or if zero people read it I’d still blog just the same. So raise your glasses of spring water everyone, post number three hundred is just around the corner.
Now Playing: Smashing Pumpkins - 1979
Being a part of Call FM and having a kickin digital camera has added up to me taking a lot more photos of concerts. Lucky, I’ve found this three part article on concert photography at photo.net. The article is a little too technical for me but I’ve got to learn sometime right?
Now Playing: Denison Marrs - Send Me an Angel
I had the time of my life running in the 2005 Disney marathon. The day started early, 3:45 AM early. We left the Contemporary via the Monorail for the starting line near the Epcot parking lot. It was a cold morning about 55 degrees. Freezing for a Miami boy like me. When we got there the starting area was abuzz with anticipation. I was a bit nervous about the race but excited at the same time. In the coral, someone mentioned to turn around so I did. There were runners lined up all the way to the horizon. It was an incredible sight. The race started with fireworks exploding and a five minute run/walk to the starting line. The first mile was more walking due to the vast amount of people. About halfway through the first mile I saw Lucy in the crowd and asked her “What was I thinking?” Her response was “Run!”
The course wound its way around Epcot and finally backstage. It's been a long time since I've been backstage at Epcot. By the time I got to the entrance of World Showcase I was pumped. Really pumped. I got out of Epcot and the sun started to rise and I was still feeling good until mile eight-point-five. It was here that I started to cramp. Really, really bad cramps. My thoughts went from finishing with a time just over two hours to just finishing. So from that point on I intervaled it to the finish line. Along the way I saw this sign “Stacy, are you wearing a thong?” No lie. I also had loads of fun harassing the gator fans. When I passed the finish line I was relieved and tired. So tired that the last mile was one of the longest of my life. I finished with an offical time of 2:44:51 and a chip time of 2:40:31. I immediately drank two bottles of powerade and downed a banana. I knew I was dehydrated but I didn't know how badly until the next day. And what a horrible day it was.
Tomorrow morning I will attempt to do something that I have never done before, run thirteen miles. The Walt Disney World Marathon and Half-Marathon is tomorrow. I'm writing from from the Contemporary Resort at Disney World. Where, interestingly enough, I have never stayed. I'm somewhat apprehensive about tomorrow's run. I haven't had a long run since then end of November. The holidays really did a number on my training schedule. I'm going to choose to look on the bright side and say I'm “well rested”. There will be over 24,000 runners running in the marathon/half-marathon tomorrow. So the start will be interesting. I'm approaching tomorrow as another long run and nothing more. I would like to finish in under two and a half hours but I'm not going to kill myself to do it. Hey, I want to go to the parks after the race.
The last race I ran in it didn't go so well. It was the Turkey Trot held by the Miami Runners. The morning of the race I had a bad bout of diarrhea. So to say that I wasn't feeling well during the race was an understatement. After the first half mile I was cramping pretty bad. I stumbled through the race finishing next to last in my age group.
We just got back from the marathon fitness expo and after seeing all of the runners Lucy said she would like to run in it next year. That's way cool. I never thought she would attempt do something like this. She hates to run.
We’re all pretty fanatical about Halo 2 on XBox Live right? We’ll Shatterock Technologies has released Query Spree a tool to download and analyze all of your Halo 2 online stats. This thing is downright cool. It lets you download your stats from Bungie.net and store the locally in Access (I know it sucks but it works). So when Bungie decides to purge their database your data will safe (as safe as it can be in Access). Speaking of Bungie and stats as of January 2nd there has been almost 46 million games of Halo 2 played on Xbox Live! Amazing. Read the full article on Halo 2 stats on Bungie’s site.
“Download all your Halo 2 stats for free! This program will connect to the internet, navigate to Bungie.net and proceed to dowload certain Halo 2 stats from that site for a given Gamertag. Data for all games will be pulled, not just the last 7 days. The data acquired with be stored locally in a Microsoft Access relational database. The database can be used as is for ad-hoc querying, or the data within can be exported to an Excel spreadsheet, CSV, or an XML file for use elsewhere. With data in hand, analyze like crazy!”
Now Playing: Jars Of Clay - Worlds Apart (Live)
I installed Community Server Forums yesterday to kick its tires a bit, when I ran into the client side script problem again. I’ve seen this before so I ran aspnet_regiis –c to fix the problem. Instead, I received another problem aspnet_regiis -c was giving me an error of:
An error has occurred (0x80070005).
You must have administrative rights on this machine in order to run this tool.
Yay. So I tried Google…nothing. Google groups...nothing. MSDN…nothing. I decided to post a message to the MSDN newsgroups. Within ten minutes I received a response and within seventy an answer. Here is the response from Juan:
Find the "system_web" directory under wwwroot. Under it, you should find a directory named "1_1_4322". Delete it.
Run aspnet_regiis -ea from drive:\windowsdirectory\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.4322. That should kill all old 1.1.4322 scripts.
Then, run aspnet_regiis –c. That should re-install the 1_1_4322 directory and client scripts.
Now Playing: Digital Underground - Same Song
Update - March 15, 2005 3:55 PM - I ran into this problem again! But this time the fix didn't work. It turns out that the “system_web” directory at the website root was read-only. Once I took the read-only flag off the aspnet_regiis -c ran correctly.