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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 […]
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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.
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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 […]
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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 […]
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I am so upset right now!
So, today was the USA vs. Italy World Cup Game. Huge game for the USA. HUUGE. Biggest of my lifetime. Really big. I invited some friends over. I went to pick up some food to grill and waited for them to arrive. My friends were late showing up due to horrendous LA traffic, but I had […]
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Meet Phoenix
Some pictures of my one week old son.
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This Never Happens
My brother-in-law and his old friend from New York were running some errands in town when my brother-in-law saw a car just like his friend used to drive. “Wayne, that looks like your old car.” “Dude! That is my old license plate. That IS my car!” They tailed the person a few miles to some […]
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Only Idiots Will Buy a PS3
Excuse me if I offend anyone, but you would seriously have to be some kind of moron to buy a PS3 for twice the price of a much better Xbox 360: Sony has flat out lied to its fans that they were going to launch this March, when everyone in the industry knew it wasn't going […]
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6/6/6
I just realized that it is VERY possible that my son could be born on 6/6/6! How cool is that? Being a huge Iron Maiden fan half of my life, I have grown up with the song “The Number of the Beast”. My son could have such a number as his birthday. Wow. Every time […]