In the cosmic scheme of things life is little more than a blip between birth and death. Luckily for us as a species the blips are coming online faster than they are fading out. However, it is terrifying when the universe conspires to silence all the blips at once. The death is aimed at us.
Content Connected to Geography
Marion has been working on this idea of connecting information to a location for quite some idea now. WhereIGo has made some of the technology that is needed to make it happen available. If you haven’t read about where the future of information is headed check it out.
hexadecimal value 0x1A, is an invalid character
All of my ASP.Net work these days is for ThePlanCollection.com so I have started publishing my problems and hopefully some solutions there. My most recent problem was the “hexadecimal value 0x1A, is an invalid character” exception when writing out xml. Click the link to get the code to fix the problem.
A Life Of Service
I attended my great uncle Wes’s funeral today. I never like the idea of going to funerals but every time I go I am glad I did. I didn’t spend a lot of time around Uncle Wes. Mostly I would see him at family events at my grandmother’s (He is my Grandmother Della’s brother.) The…
What Do You Want to be When You Grow Up?
My Nephew’s preschool class recent took a field trip to a local store. They went to the bakery and saw the big mixers and how donuts are made. They toured the meat section where they had some interesting machines and I am sure the rest of the store. Gadgets have an effect on guys at…
Kill Internet Explorer With CSS
We got a call today at The Plan Collection that was interesting. A guy was trying to print out one of our pages. Each time he tried his browser would crash. At first I thought, “that is just nuts. Html can’t crash your browser.” Then Jake tried it and it crashed Internet Explorer. Then I…
Cache County Library System
Right now in Cache County each city has its own library system and citizens of one city are not allowed to checkout books from a library in another city unless they pay for a very expensive library card. This is unfortunate as it creates a barrier to information for those who really need it. By…
The COSL Guys are Disgusting
First there was the joke about bacon chocolate chip cookies. Sure somebody did it and it was funny. Then Jeremy actually made them and brought them to game night and people ate them. Thinking about it makes me dry heave. Now Tom brings us Mini Mos (chocolate) bacon bars. My stomach may never recover.
Really Neat Photography
Most of the cool photos you see are manipulated via photoshop these days. Miss Palmen, a 44-year-old Dutch artist, creates her art the old fashion way and the results are amazing.
Weddings So Totally Suck
Weddings suck. Everything about them, surrounding them and having to do with them is really quite inane. Although I am sure I will take a lot of crap for writing this which may or may not result in a dissolution of a certain matrimony which required such an event, I am going to do it…