mike's web logmike pope's Web logWhat version am I using- June 30, 2008 I'm running ASP.NET version 3.5. Or am I The evidence is a little ... confusing. Let's have a look.If I open VWD 2008 Express and click Help About, I get this:The New Web Site dialog box says this:The Property Pages dialog box for a Web site tells you:Suppose, however, that I have a peek at the headers sent by ASP.NET when I request a page (thanks here to Fiddler):That's odd, noOr the even-more-confusing issue of where to find the .NET Framework tools. If you read about aspnet_regsql.exe on...http://www.mikepope.com/blog/DisplayBlog.aspx?permalink=1987 Blogiversary: 5 years- June 27, 2008 This blog went live 5 years ago today.1 It was a kind of lark, of course. ("How hard could it be") Some stats:Entries: 1885.Words: 545,938. That's a lot of blather, dang.Average entry size: 289, or 298 if I count code.Hits: 917,375 or thereabouts. The, um, rigorousness of the hit counting is not guaranteed. More stats are available over on the bottom left.I've slowed way down in the last year or so. Partly I just don't have as much time, and partly it's because the editing game requires less...http://www.mikepope.com/blog/DisplayBlog.aspx?permalink=1986 Every editor's dream- June 22, 2008 Ha. Jane Black, writing in the Washington Post, recounts a little fantasy she has that is, I strongly suspect, shared by many people. People of a certain kind, that is. She says:Most people have a superhero fantasy. Some want superior strength, plus tights and a cape, to fight crime. Others imagine being able to fly, become invisible or see through walls.Mine has always been tamer. No costume. No drama. In my fantasy, I enter a restaurant, order and sweetly ask the waiter if I can "hold on to...http://www.mikepope.com/blog/DisplayBlog.aspx?permalink=1985 It don't mean a thing if it ain't got ... those miles- June 21, 2008 We watched TV for a bit last night -- if we're home on a Friday night, we often watch "Numb3rs," the stylish (Ridley brothers, what would you expect) CSI-type program whose shtick is that the crimes are always solved by (or at least there is always a lot of talk about) mathematical theory.1When you watch TV seldom, the ads can be kind of interesting. Production values on ads are often great. Plus watching ads gives you a tiny slice of the Zeitgeist: what's on our collective mindsBased on what...http://www.mikepope.com/blog/DisplayBlog.aspx?permalink=1984 Single-celled organisms- June 15, 2008 I've been reading The Canon by Natalie Angier, which she calls a "whirligig" tour of science. It's not 100% clear to me what she means by whirligig, but I might go with "giddy" (). Angier has a style that features a lot of wordplay; think, dunno, Anthony Lane, maybe, but about science, not movies. The book tours physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy&151;the usual suspects. It's an exuberant piece of writing, although I'm not sure I'd hand it out as an introductory textbook.1 I didn't want to...http://www.mikepope.com/blog/DisplayBlog.aspx?permalink=1983 Too many helps in UI- June 11, 2008 Via Leon Bambrick, I learn that Long Zheng has created an interesting way for Windows users to complain about the Windows UI. His Web site, Windows UX Taskforce1, combines two common ideas: user complaints and social bookmarking (as in, being able to vote for submissions). From the perspective of the company, it's great -- it's a self-prioritizing list of features to fix in future editions. (Leon suggests that we need sites like that for a bunch of stuff. Sounds good to me.)One of the issues...http://www.mikepope.com/blog/DisplayBlog.aspx?permalink=1982 It's the little things, keyboard layout edition- June 8, 2008 A couple of months back, when I got my new computer, I was obliged to get a new keyboard. I just ran out and got a USB keyboard that was, um, not expensive. As it happens, I ended up with a Logitech keyboard.I noticed even at the time that the new keyboard had keys in slightly different places, and I assumed that this would take some adjustment. A couple of weeks ago, however, I realized that this adjustment was not happening. I was constantly hitting the wrong key. For example, I'd try to go...http://www.mikepope.com/blog/DisplayBlog.aspx?permalink=1981 The vacation getaway- June 5, 2008 I promised (myself, anyway) a while back that Id find some more fun cites from David Owens book Sheetrock & Shellac. If youre just joining us1, Owen is a writer who bought a 200-year-old house, and in the course of maintaining and improving the house, has learned and written a lot about home improvement. That is, specifically from the perspective of a guy who writes for a living as opposed to, you know, doing construction. As noted before, the book Sheetrock & Shellac is an enjoyably wandering .http://www.mikepope.com/blog/DisplayBlog.aspx?permalink=1980 Sign O' The Times- June 4, 2008 In the New York Times: "Big Vehicles Stagger Under the Weight of $4 Gas." Craigslist:http://www.mikepope.com/blog/DisplayBlog.aspx?permalink=1979 Our bummer song lists- June 4, 2008 I've been taking guitar class for several sessions running, as noted before. Although members come and go, over the course of these sessions the median age of the participants just hasn't gone down much, so our jocular appellation for the class ("Old Guy Rock") these days is less humor and more just, you know, fact.And as it turns out, left to our own devices, we always end up selecting songs that are not the, you know, sunniest pop songs. Let's see ... we've had suicide ("Fire and Rain"),...http://www.mikepope.com/blog/DisplayBlog.aspx?permalink=1978 |