http://blog.killfly.com Andrew Beardsley's Blog of Random Crap Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:12:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I wrote a letter left it on the door You went and changed the locks Do I live here anymore And I pay my bills Changed the will Living the divorced life I can't live without a wife Kids are changing schools You make up the rules with your dime store book advice I can't live With you anymore. With broken vows nights ... http://blog.killfly.com/index.php/2008/08/20/i-cant-live-with-you-anymore/ Some people ask me how many drinks does it take To write those songs, songs that you make And I tell them I don't know So just stop asking cause when i'm talking to you I've probably already had a few and if  you aint careful the next song will be about you http://blog.killfly.com/index.php/2008/08/20/if-youre-not-careful/ When I was a child I took a drive with my dear grandpa cross country, I found the man in me We got so close singing to the songs the night got late, the road got long I got hungry he stopped for me He's my grandpa And I love him I can't wait to see him again I want ... http://blog.killfly.com/index.php/2008/08/19/grandfather-man/ Sometimes I feel so sad ‘Bout the girlfriend That I don’t have Sitting home alone again I want one by my side A woman through the night Sometimes I feel it so strong [chorus] And then my friend calls me Bout the troubles he has had And suddenly I don’t feel so bad She aint ever mean smells so nice and clean always wakes ... http://blog.killfly.com/index.php/2008/08/18/sometimes-i-feel-so-sad/ (written by Chris Poirier and Andrew Beardsley) Had a beer, just aint feeling right Wont get me in jail, get me in a fight Wont make me fall asleep somewhere I don’t know Wake up in the morning Wearing all my clothes [chorus] How Many, How many have you had How Many, Still Feeling Sad I need a ... http://blog.killfly.com/index.php/2008/08/13/how-many-have-you-had/ "A new search engine! OMFG!!!!" That seems to be the reaction that a lot of people have whenever a new search engine comes out. There's a huge fuss about it; Digg, Slashdot, and eventually CNN and MSNBC pick up on it, and everyone holds the new engine up for inspection ... http://blog.killfly.com/index.php/2008/08/02/cuil-another-look/ ------------------ C I can't Sleep F In this bed C Wait for a woman G She's in my head C Perfect soul F Wait for me C I will wait G           C For eternity F               G        C I am the lonely Man ------------------ Restless nights I toss and turn Fans do nothin' To ease the burden my country girl long brown hair I'll wait for you If you still care ------------------ [CHORUS] F               G        C I am the lonely man F               G         ... http://blog.killfly.com/index.php/2008/07/10/waiting-for-you/ 1/2 lb boneless chicken cut into bite-size pieces 1 Cup chopped peeled apple 3/4 Cup chopped onion 1/2 Cup chopped carrot 1/2 Cup chopped celery 1/2 Cup chopped green pepper 2 Tablespoons flour 1 Tablespoon curry powder 1 teaspoon ground ginger 1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper or cayennne pepper 1/3 Cup mango chutny (hot) 2  14 and 1/2 oz cans chicken ... http://blog.killfly.com/index.php/2008/07/08/mulagatani-soup/ [C] I coulda been a writer Or a poet I know for sure I can [G] write all night, into the day [C] If I wanted to But now I sit Just me and a ciggarette Makin' love to the night And I don't know why [chorus] I'd [G] rather be with someone who [C] makes me feel at peace who'll ... http://blog.killfly.com/index.php/2008/06/17/i-dont-want-to-fight-about-it-anymore/ C - Am - F - G I got my first allergy Somethin' bad happened to me I think it's somethin' you'll understand Makin' dinner for one Lord knows it ain't no fun Drinkin' my beer all alone [chorus] [F] I never thought I'd [G] see The [C] day where I would [Am] be [F] I'm doin' the best I ... http://blog.killfly.com/index.php/2008/06/17/solitary-man/ Check it out, you can help out a small business somewhere in the world: - http://blog.killfly.com/index.php/2008/06/02/help-out-a-small-business/ I finally got this video to work. It's an example of how a plant (a tomato in this case) will bend itself toward light in an effort to maximise its photosynthesis. Ok, let's see if this works: This was taken with a D300, 1 shot per minute, from about ... http://blog.killfly.com/index.php/2008/05/10/phototropism-in-action-tomato-plant/ While I'm at it, I might as well post another song that I made with the orchestra plugin. This one was supposed to have a middle-eastern sound to it, but also have a nice driving drum beat. The actual beat of the drums is pretty close to what ... http://blog.killfly.com/index.php/2008/05/04/eastern-wind/ I never posted this song up here, but I tend to want to listen to it sometimes, so I thought a nice easy way to get to it would be nice (FTP is annoying sometimes).  Basically, this is a song I wrote to play with a new orchestra plugin that ... http://blog.killfly.com/index.php/2008/05/04/piano-song/ Tired of writing code to find the years and months between two dates? ''' <summary>''' Provides an easy way to get the number if years and months bewteen two dates.''' </summary>''' <remarks></remarks>Public Class DateSpan   Dim _Years As Integer   Dim _Months As Integer     Public Sub New(ByVal StartDate As Date, ByVal EndDate As ... http://blog.killfly.com/index.php/2008/04/14/vbnet-datespan-class/ Clinton Admits that she 'Misspoke' about her trip to Bosnia. Either you intentionally embellished (lied?) about the trip, you forgot what happened, or you believe something happened and it didn't. In any of those cases it's not something I would expect in my future President. http://blog.killfly.com/index.php/2008/04/04/political-comments-on-march-25-2008/ Pretty simple really. Try this SQL: SELECT CONVERT(nvarchar(20), GetDate(), 101); or SELECT CONVERT(nvarchar(20), CAST('2008-04-04 16:07:07.920' AS DateTime), 101); If you need to use it in a comparison you can easily do something like WHERE CONVERT(nvarchar(20), MyDateColumn, 101) BETWEEN @DateFrom AND @DateTo Enjoy! http://blog.killfly.com/index.php/2008/04/04/how-to-get-the-date-of-a-datetime-in-sql-server/ On my truck, a 2001 Ranger, I first have to remove a little plastic plate that is above the headlight. It comes off after removing three small bolts on top. Remove that plastic and you'll find two metal tabs behind the headlight housing (the glass part). If ... http://blog.killfly.com/index.php/2008/03/29/replace-the-headlight-bulbs-on-a-2001-ford-ranger/ Clinton Clinton's current notion that Michigan voters will be disenfranchised if Obama doesn't agree to a re-vote in Michigan is ridiculous. Its transparency is so blatantly obvious, how can anyone not see right through it? She didn't seem very concerned with it back in New Hampshire. (Reference needed: Basically ... http://blog.killfly.com/index.php/2008/03/20/political-comments-on-march-20-2008/ I need a place to keep track of all the good resources I've been finding on how to get a VirtualPC image running for SharePoint Developement. Here goes: How to Build a SharePoint Development Machine: Long list of steps and tools to getting a development SharePoint server up and running. ... http://blog.killfly.com/index.php/2007/12/28/sharepoint-moss-vpc-info/ Today at work I needed to add a custom configuration section to a 2.0 ASP.NET / VB.NET project.  After looking around, almost al the examples weren't in VB.  The the best article I found was at (not surprisingly) 4Guys.  Anyway, the sample code was C#, so I had to convert it ... http://blog.killfly.com/index.php/2007/12/20/vbnet-version-of-custom-configuration-sections/ My Behringer B-5 microphone started making some weird thumping noises recently. After doing some cable swapping, and creative hookups between my preamp and a pair of headphones, I became 90% sure that it was the microphone making these weird noises. Also, the noises seem to be intermittent, so ... http://blog.killfly.com/index.php/2007/12/18/behringer-b5-disassembly/ It's been a while since I put up a recipie, this time I decided to put it up as a PDF and OpenOffice document, the formatting and layout of pictures in WordPress is just waaaay too frustrating. Huevos Rancheros PDF File Huevis Rancheros ZIP (contains original ODT file) http://blog.killfly.com/index.php/2007/11/12/huevos-rancheros/ ...Work in progress, currently only the chorus: [Chorus] Have a Guinness on me my friend, Drink it fast or slow, Finest stuff that'll touch your lips, This I know for sure And if you've had quite a few You'll be bangiiinnnnn...[slow down then pause] Doors down all around town Jus' ta have some more. ` [Last Chorus] Have a Guinness on me ... http://blog.killfly.com/index.php/2007/09/06/ode-to-guinness/ ADAL 1.0.8 Changes CodeGen Logic in seperate assembly. This will make lots of things easier (for me), but most notably it will allow easy creation of other projects that use the ADAL library (like a web-based version). Option to save password with project file. You shouldn't be using a high-level ... http://blog.killfly.com/index.php/2007/08/29/adal-108/ Hi all, Here's the link to what I think is a fixed version of the Coppermine 1.3 demo package, which I have called 1.3.1. Here's what I did to fix, that way someone can tell me if it'll cause any problems. It seems to work for me, but I'm ... http://blog.killfly.com/index.php/2007/08/29/coppermine-demo-fixed/ The basic setup for this recipe actually came from the back of the penne box that I had.  Their amounts were for an entire box of ziti though, and while I do like ziti a lot, I didn't think I wanted a whole box.  So like a lot of things ... http://blog.killfly.com/index.php/2007/06/21/penne-pomodoro/ This post is password protected. To view it please enter your password below: Password: http://blog.killfly.com/index.php/2007/06/02/80/ Sunday, May 20th : 8:38 PM Whew man, long day. Today started at 5:30am in Quonny, RI. I cautiously opened my eyes to reveal a day starting much darker than I'm used to. “What is this daylight savings?”, no, just dawn AM, or the butt crack of morning, ... http://blog.killfly.com/index.php/2007/05/29/journal-from-the-betty-ann-boat-delivery/ Usually I'm a proponent of Microsoft. I generally like their developmet tools, and enjoy writing in .NET because of all the useful things I can accomplish with it. But today they pissed me off a little bit. I was trying to figure out how to interface with ... http://blog.killfly.com/index.php/2007/04/09/microsoft-sometimes-you-piss-me-off/ Not much to report, just that I accidently removed the icon for the ADAL exe, so the last release went out without it. So if you really were attached to that awesome icon, you can go re-download ADAL. -Andrew http://blog.killfly.com/index.php/2007/04/05/adal-107a/  You can download now, or read and download at the bottom (recommended, lol) ADAL Version 1.0.7 was released today. Additions and fixes are included are: - Fixed bug in PopulateFromReader that caused an error when calling the SELECT method of DAL objects. The call to PopulateFromReader was not inside a Do ... http://blog.killfly.com/index.php/2007/04/04/adal-107/ A lot of JavaScript utilities need to be inserted at the bottom of the page so that the HTML elements that use them (or at least the function calls) do not generate errors. When using ASP.NET 2.0 master pages, you might want to insert the <SCRIPT> tags dynamically so ... http://blog.killfly.com/index.php/2007/04/04/dynamic-javascript-tag-insert-aspnet-20/ Hi all, Options:  Download now, or read and then download at the bottom.  ADAL 1.0.6 has been released.  There is a new feature in this release for anyone doing their own extensions, PopulateFromReader!  Basically this method that is available on every Item that ADAL creates will accept a SQLDataReader and auto populate the ... http://blog.killfly.com/index.php/2007/03/28/adal-106/ Today some of my friends and I noticed that the Frank Caprio namebrand seems to be everywhere. Whether it's his huge picture on State websites, or his own CaprioTV, it appears the eventual plan is for world domination. Having seen too many Simpsons and Family Guy episodes, we have a ... http://blog.killfly.com/index.php/2007/03/21/frank-caprio-wants-to-rule-the-universe/ An official release of ADAL, version 1.0.5 is available form the ADAL SourceForge.net download page (http://sourceforge.net/projects/adal). There's a couple new features in this version, most notably: Uses an .msi installer Has "File Save" and "File Open" commands that write the current configuration to a custom XML file so you can reload ... http://blog.killfly.com/index.php/2007/03/18/adal-105/ I decided to make ADAL Open Source.   "Why not?" I figured.  I never planned on charging for it, and now that it's open source I get to host it at SourceForge and get the use of their Subversion Source Control servers.  So anyway, I haven't done an official release over ... http://blog.killfly.com/index.php/2007/03/15/adal-gone-open-source/ Wow!  What a creative title Andrew...where did you ever think of "Piano Test"?  Yeah whatever, that's what this was, a test of a keyboard that I'm borrowing from a cousin. What is it?  35 seconds of a bass and organ playing together.  It's yet another "proof of concept" song that is ... http://blog.killfly.com/index.php/2006/10/23/a-new-song-piano-test/ Quite possibly the best stop-motion video EVER MADE!!!!  I made a sample stop-motion video using the demo version of Stop Motion Pro (http://www.stopmotionpro.com/).  In this short film, I present the classic case of penny versus counter.  The protagonist (the penny), must overcome the antagonist (the counter), to find its way ... http://blog.killfly.com/index.php/2006/09/17/stop-motion-photography/ I made some Alfredo Sauce one night and liked it so much that I thought I'd make it again the next night. I also figured that I'd take some pictures and post the actual reciepe to make it. So here we go... Ingredients: Whole Milk - Enough to cover bottom of pan. Butter ... http://blog.killfly.com/index.php/2006/08/17/three-cheese-alfredo-sauce/ I used to have the Flickr Badge on the right hand sidebar, but it seemed to be slowing down the blog (I'd frequently see my browser "Waiting for www.flickr.com..."). It's gone now, we'll see if performance improves. http://blog.killfly.com/index.php/2006/05/27/removed-flickr-badge/ Removed VB syntax highlighting until we develop our own. Identifies tables with auto-increment fields and alters the insert to not attempt to insert into that field (would generate a SQL error). The DAL class also ... http://blog.killfly.com/index.php/2006/05/22/adal-v03/ Spamalot I just downloaded and installed Akismet so hopefully I won't have to deal with spam any more. We'll see. CMS Search I also checked out some CMS packages yesterday and think the one that looks the best so far is CMS Made Simple It has a nice simple interface ... http://blog.killfly.com/index.php/2006/05/21/no-more-spam-a-new-cms/ Here's a neat little site that shows short video clips of Linux distrobutions...if you like that shitty Linux OS: http://linclips.crocusplains.com/ http://blog.killfly.com/index.php/2006/05/20/damn-im-bored/ I forgot, there's more stuff I need to do: Get a CVS source control solution that works with Visual Studio I believe this will consist of either a local cvs server, or sourceforge projects (and their cvs server). Hopefully I'll get something like http://www.jalindi.com/igloo/ to work so I can connect Visual ... http://blog.killfly.com/index.php/2006/05/20/oh-yeah-theres-more/ I went bowling last night for the first time in...15 years?...my first game really sucked, I even had a couple gutter balls, but my second game was really good.  I had a few strikes, and one set of three strikes in a row.  Don't tell anyone, but I'm pretty sure ... http://blog.killfly.com/index.php/2006/05/20/bowling-rocks/ ADAL v0.2 ADAL (Auto Data Access Layer) is a utility to generate the stored procedures and .NET classes needed to get up and running with a basic Data Access Layer. License Currently ADAL may be used for free by: Students Government Agencies Educational Institutions ADAL may not be used: For Commercial purposes By BFFs v0.2 Means Not Ready for Production The ... http://blog.killfly.com/index.php/2006/04/05/adal-v01/ This is a call for features....what are the critical / nice to haves for an online image gallery?   ? http://blog.killfly.com/index.php/2006/03/27/mage-a-net-image-gallery/ I thought this was too cool so I decided to post an example on it.  First Create A Class We need to create a class the items of which we will add to our custom collection.  This one's pretty simple, it's a car: '  Quick class to give us some properties Public Class CarItem    Public ... http://blog.killfly.com/index.php/2006/01/19/creating-custom-collections-and-binding-them/   DSC_3446 Originally uploaded by firstdivision. Found a cool place to take pictures of planes coming into TF Green Airport in Rhode Island. It was getting dark when I got there so this shot was taken at 1600 ISO, that's why it's so grainy. I'll go back someday a little earlier to get ... http://blog.killfly.com/index.php/2006/01/15/dsc_3446/   DSC_3402 Originally uploaded by firstdivision. Taken on New Year's Day as we drove to breakfast. Ice on the windshield was slowly melting. I like the different shapes that the ice crystals create. http://blog.killfly.com/index.php/2006/01/04/dsc_3402/ Hey there everyone. Just thought I'd tell everyone that I've upgraded http://blog.killfly.com to Wordpress 2.0. On yourside I suppose it doesn't look a whole lot different, but there's all kinds of new things for me to play with....that's the real reason I had to write this post... For those ... http://blog.killfly.com/index.php/2006/01/03/upgrade-to-wordpress-20/ powerplant Originally uploaded by firstdivision. I like how the steam gets blown around a little. It was a 3 second exposure so there was enough time for the wind to move the steam around. http://blog.killfly.com/index.php/2006/01/01/powerplant/ I'm not much for conversation. The smalltalk in our lives. I'm waiting for something special; whenever it arrives. Standing straight and watching Spoken words go flying by. Concentration blurs, and eyes drift off, My ears have said goodbye Waiting on my own two feet, With patience gazing far. I close my eyes, and breathing deep I fly out to the stars. Wishful ... http://blog.killfly.com/index.php/2005/12/30/talk-or-walk/ I can think of two times that I wish I had a camera, or at least that someone had taken a picture of me. The first is the time I wanted to see how fast I could run. I ran alongside a car while the driver kept pace with me ... http://blog.killfly.com/index.php/2005/12/28/i-wish-i-had-a-camera/ largest_garlic_clove Originally uploaded by firstdivision. The largest clove of garlic I have ever cut into. Keep in mind, this is just one clove of an entire head! This was actually a clove of garlic tha was inside a gift basket that we recieved. Since we were cooking up some chicken that was also ... http://blog.killfly.com/index.php/2005/12/26/largest_garlic_clove/ ducks_in_fog Originally uploaded by firstdivision. A group of scaredy-cat ducks takes off just because I walked out on the dock. Hey, it's a D70 not a 12 gauge. http://blog.killfly.com/index.php/2005/12/26/ducks_in_fog/ Rowing into the fog, steady and sure, a captain steers his boat. To attempt such a thing, they said, would be crazy. The boat is too small, and the distance too long. Yet standing on the shore, they watch him leave. Expressionless and stern, the rowboat captain dips ... http://blog.killfly.com/index.php/2005/12/26/rowing-into-fog/ crane Originally uploaded by firstdivision. Photo of hthe day (so far). Walked around the yard with my new lens... http://blog.killfly.com/index.php/2005/12/25/crane/ A recent conversation at a coffee shop caused me to start thinking about religion, specifically mine. I've never been an ultra religious person, but sometimes you can't avoid being asked the question. I ended up writing the text below at around 3 in the morning in order to ... http://blog.killfly.com/index.php/2005/12/24/25/ Argrggggg. I tried using their stupid service and couldn't get any of the source control options to work. Now it's stuck on one of the Source Control options and I can't find a way to change it..... http://blog.killfly.com/index.php/2005/11/23/fuck-gotdotnet/ dsc_2946 Originally uploaded by firstdivision. The duck says "What are you looking at?" http://blog.killfly.com/index.php/2005/10/29/dsc_2946/ When managing permissions for an ASP.NET application, make sure to set the permissions for the user that the application will be running under. This account is different depending on what version of IIS is running (which you can likely extend to the operating system in use). To find the user ... http://blog.killfly.com/index.php/2005/10/27/file-system-permissions-with-aspnet/ Winter clouds Originally uploaded by hhriebe. Not one of my pictures.... Just a reminder to everyone.....WINTER IS COMING! http://blog.killfly.com/index.php/2005/10/26/winter-clouds/ fire_water Originally uploaded by firstdivision. Needed a new picture so I posted this one that I took tonight. We've got one of our first fires going of the year, and it signals the beginning of fall and winter....and snow soon!! I originally ... http://blog.killfly.com/index.php/2005/10/24/fire_water/ Have you ever cracked an egg into a pan, looked inside, saw a brown thing or some white thing and said "I'm going to pretend I didn't see that." http://blog.killfly.com/index.php/2005/10/07/gross-eggs-and-brown-things/ book Originally uploaded by firstdivision. Test post of a picture from http://flickr.com to my blog. Here's the caption from flickr: Photo taken of a book and bowl of grapes. I came home one day and the table was set like that, "Hmmm" I thought, ... http://blog.killfly.com/index.php/2005/10/07/book/ Introduction A while ago we started using Microsoft's Visual SourceSafe at work with Visual Studio .NET 2003. One of the first things we realized when we began working with it was that the reporting capabilities were lacking to say the least. Another problem we faced was the ability to ... http://blog.killfly.com/index.php/2005/10/04/vss-reporter-and-xslt/ Just want to post links to two cool tools that I've come upon: The first is BCWipe which allows you to securly delete files, or entire drives. I haven't used it, but I've talked to someone who has and they say it's pretty cool. http://www.jetico.com/ The second tool is Daemon ... http://blog.killfly.com/index.php/2005/09/17/two-cool-tools/ It was pretty good. Basically what I expected it to be, which was an overview of the new features available in Visual Studio 2005. One of the biggest advancements seems to be better data access, and more flexibility with how data is presented and bound to controls. The ... http://blog.killfly.com/index.php/2005/09/14/msdn-event-visual-studio-2005/ I think I never learned how to spell "visible" until I started programming. I probably always spelled it "visable." Now, after setting the "visible" property of so many controls I've become pretty good at typing out "visible". Just thought I'd mention that. lol http://blog.killfly.com/index.php/2005/08/26/visible/ Was just looking at at the last of my Gin and Tonic and thought....I wonder what a splash of Cointreau would taste like in there. The answer is not very good. Earlier.... When I was coming back from work I stopped by the boat club to see if anyone was down ... http://blog.killfly.com/index.php/2005/08/19/bad-mix-hip-tow-lesson/ Well, I'm not sure exactly what happened, but I recently worked on a Windows XP laptop that was freshly rebuilt. Classic ASP pages worked fine, as did .NET aspx pages. However, suddenly IIS stopped being able to serve classic ASP pages (.NET still worked fine). It just ... http://blog.killfly.com/index.php/2005/08/18/iis-visual-studio-2003-net/ A while back at work I needed to install the SourceSafe client onto a desktop that had Visual Studio 2003, but not the SourceSafe integration. After a few posts back and forth here at the Microsoft SourceSafe Forum, I was able to come up with a solution. 1) Copied VSS\Win32 ... http://blog.killfly.com/index.php/2005/08/17/sourcesafe-visual-studio-integration/ Actually, this was a test to see how hard it would be to get a picture from http://photo.killfly.com/ to show up. I always like this pic, I guess that's why it's in the Nikon d70 category. Eventually I'll get some posts up in the technology section.....hmmm, maybe I'll do that right ... http://blog.killfly.com/index.php/2005/08/17/a-somewhat-more-normal-entry/ This is the first post on the killfly.com blogs. Who knows if this'll get used or not. If not, that's why they make delete keys. Here's a backed-up post from earlyer in the month. I had set up another blog but deleted it in favor of this ... http://blog.killfly.com/index.php/2005/08/17/first-post/