from the desk of Colin Nicholls
Today's project: Upgrading from BlogEngine.Net 1.3 to 1.4.5. So far it does not appear to be going very well. My customized theme is messed up, and the mp3player extension is throwing an exception.
UPDATE: now the mp3 player just doesn't show up at all. But at least the exception has gone.
I think I am finally getting the hang of CSS (again). Microsoft Expression Web is a very good product – don't be fooled by the Version 1.0 moniker, through the power of rebranding it is actually FrontPage 12.
On the other hand, I hear that Expression Web 2.0 is not worth your time if you're already using 1.0.
The new Bond film, 'Quantum of Solace', veers as wildly from Good to Bad as frequently as Bond's Aston Martin crosses the center-line on the Italian tollway. On the whole, the film was OK, although I was hoping for the trailer to either Watchmen or Star Trek. Alas, we saw neither. Also: worst Bond theme song ever. I award points for the fact that Bond did not end up bonking the Russian lady.
But answer me this: Why did the villain build his secret base out of exploding concrete?
This diversion was followed by another long day at the office. And this is on a Saturday! Deploying an upgrade often requires working odd hours.
I can't let a whole month go by without posting here… but I see that I have already. And I'm not going to cheat and retroactively post something on my birthday, or something like that. For what it's worth, we've almost been too busy to celebrate, what with trying to find a house that doesn't fall through for some reason or other, and working like crazy on, well, work stuff. I'm going to have to take a day off at some point just to catch up on sleep.
And speaking of Birthdays, thanks to J & A for the marvellous dinner and company at Celadon. I usually try to figure out something fun about my age, but this time I shall wimp out and say only that I believe it is the same as the number of unique shapes that can be formed out of 7 equal triangles of indentical size.
26 June 2008: The fires in California have turned the sky around San Francisco Bay grey, and the sun pink.
So that empty nest we noticed when we moved in 6 months ago is now occupied. We think she is the mate of the little guy with the red plumage. Interestingly, we haven't seen much of him lately. Perhaps he's done a runner. Anyway, Mrs Bird is always there, looking out at us, or sitting on the edge of the nest with her arse in the air and her head down in the bottom of the nest arranging things. Perhaps she is turning her eggs.
This is pretty cool. I took it with the built-in camera on the Nokia cell phone, at around 1:30pm, during a quick walk after lunch:
The cell phone camera doesn’t capture colors accurately; is pretty low resolution; and has this halo effect that you can’t really avoid. But the results can be quite good! I suppose it helps to be in a picturesque location. You wouldn’t know from the picture that it was very bright sunlight and 92 degrees. It all looks very tranquil and mild.
This little guy shows up in the morning and evening and sings for
about 10 minutes before flying off somewhere. He's very regular in his
schedule. So far we have not indentified him.
I took this picture (one of 12, the only one that had him in focus) through the slats of our window blinds.
Normally he faces towards the house and we can see his glorious red-orange waist-coat.
He's about 4 inches tall.
Last weekend we ventured outside just before the sun set, to walk
around the neighbourhood and take the air. It was very picturesque.
Sailing behind East Marin Island, looking South.
East Richmond hills – possibly Wildcat Canyon Regional Park – poke
their heads above a cloud bank looking East across the San Pablo bay.
A duck flies West.
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