Scott Elkin

Author: Scott

  • I Hate The Windows Calendar

    Whenever I want to quickly check a date, I just pull up the windows calendar by double-clicking on the time in the start bar. But if I need to see what date something happened back in December, I have to first change the month, then the year. That is so annoying! I should be able…

  • Harold and Kumar Fun

    Man was I just laughing hard. My wife and I were watching Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle. I got a phone call and paused the DVD while looking for the phone. When I looked back at the TV, this is what I saw: Update: I am laughing even re-reading this post.

  • Validators Not Submitting on an ASP.NET Form

    WOW! I have been having this problem where my submit buttons would just stop posting back for no reason. It seemed that some pages would work, and some didn’t. I just didn’t know enough to even know where to look. Thank goodness for Scott Mitchell. He wrote up the reason for it here: http://scottonwriting.net/sowblog/posts/2943.aspx To…

  • Volunteers for Tsunami Relief

    For all those looking for the website to help in the relief efforts to South East Asia, go here: http://www.VMDisasterRelief.com I broke it down to “General Information”, then by country. Now we can coordinate all our info and efforts so we can spend less time trying to find the information and more time acting on…

  • Before and After Tsunami

    It is becoming more and more real that I will be going to Sumatra next week to help out the relief efforts. I am in process of raising some money, so I will know more in the next couple of days. I found these pics of Banda Aceh in Indonesia. This is before: and after:…

  • nGallery and .Text

    I got tired of waiting for Community Server to combine .Text and nGallery, so I just did it myself. First, download and install nGallery. It wants to copy the “web” file in my Program Files, and then create a virtual directory in your site. I just copied it to my website folder and went into…

  • Helping Tsunami Survivors in Sumatra

    A buddy of mine from Florida called me wondering if I would go with him to some of the most heinous parts of Indonesia to help them out. Apparently it is really bad there. Tons of tons of bodies and lack of food and water and now the start of diseases such as malaria. I…

  • Ran Out of Gas in the Prius

    On my way home tonight, I ran out of gas in the Prius. When I left Orange County (23 miles away from LA), I was on one bar, but just didn’t feel like stopping. Anyway, so all these lights came on in the dash, and when I pushed on the gas it didn’t go very…

  • Debug in Visual Studio using Firefox

    God knows why I never took the time to figure this out (I say that a lot), but thankfully Peter Gekko did. Now when I run my ASP.NET app, it runs in Firefox. Thats nifty. Change Visual Studio Preferences To Run Firefox Update: This will not work for me. I thought it did when I…

  • TivoToGo Released

    Go to http://research.tivo.com/tivotogo/ to make sure your tivo has priority to get the update to allow you to use it. Read all about how to get it to work here: http://www.tivo.com/4.9.19.1.asp. I plan to use it to watch shows on my laptop while on the road, in an airplane or at work.