Best Jobs

So I might be a dork at times (ok, all the time), but if there's nothing else to look forward to, it's comforting to know that I have MONEY Magazines top rated job.  I'm a little surprised that Software Engineer ranks low on the stress scale.  Apparently whoever was surveyed has never had to deal with impossible deadlines and sleepless nights trying to make them!

Best Use for a Dell

So what do you use your Dell for? This QVC caller has no problem sharing his favorite use.

Installing ASP.NET 2.0 Framework Extension For IIS

If you installed IIS after you installed the .NET 2.0 Framework, it's likely that the 2.0 Framework is not registered with IIS. To register the 2.0 Framework extensions for IIS, run "aspnet_regiis.exe -i" from the framework directory. In my case, it was located in "C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727".

The problem surfaced when I was trying to install the latest Microsoft SharePoint beta and got the following error:

"This product requires ASP.Net web server extensions to be enabled"

ASP.NET 2.0 State Management

When you've got only one web server, keeping track of users states is quite trivial. But if you've got a web farm to deal with, it suddenly becomes more detailed. Because of HTTP's stateless design, web browsers must make a new connection for every user request, disconnecting afterwards. Because of this, there is never a guarantee that a user will end up on the same web server, request after request. In the past, developers were faced with implementing custom solutions, which usually involved saving state information to a database server, which all web servers could then access. Fortunately, ASP.NET has simplified the process of maintaining state between multiple web servers in a web farm so that your clients never notice that they've moved from one server to the next. Here is a quick look at using Profile to aide you and your web projects in state management using some powerful features in .NET 2.0.

Office 12 Screenshots

Dan Fernandez's Blog : Announced at PDC: The LINQ Project

I was recently thumbing through some comments on digg and came across a post by danielfe on the LINQ Project (Language INtegration Query). His blog explains the project well:

Dan Fernandez's Blog : The LINQ Project

Tunnel of Death

This has got to be one of the most confusing videos I've ever seen. For starters, why on Earth are all these people crashing? I believe at one point the camera perhaps shows at least one other tunnel (the scenery changes), but there are just some freakish accidents that I simply don't understand.

For example, at about 1:00 into the video, a truck is driving along, minding its own business with [seemingly] nothing in front of it. Out of nowhere, it runs into an invisible truck driving backwards! I've watched this video frame by frame and simply can't figure out where the truck came from. Freakish and confusing!

Feel free to clue me in if I'm missing something that should be obvious.

Ferrari Enzo Crash in Malibu

I managed to run across these pictures of the horrible Ferrari Enzo crash from February 21, 2006 in Malibu, California on the Pacific Coast Highway near Dekkar Canyon. Owner Stefan Erikssen, the former executive of Gizmondo, walked away with little more than a bloody lip. A video report of the accident can be seen here.

Senfo's Theory Of Time

The way I see it, nobody could come from the future* --it hasn't happened yet. For somebody (or something) from the future to show up on our Earth, they would have to come from another place in the universe where time ticks faster. But I personally do not believe that time actually works in only this way. The best way that I could possibly describe my theory (and I am not a physicist) would be to draw two lines in parallel to each other, like so:

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For the sake of argument, pretend that the two lines at the end are connected. In my theory, the two dashed lines represent two possible rates in which time increases in different places in the universe. In this example, pretend that the top dashed line represents a place where time increases at twice the rate of the lower line. If one person showed up at the location of the top line, and a second person showed up at the location of the second line and simultaneously started stop watches, we could observe that the stop watch of the person on the top line would increase at (obviously) twice the rate of the lower line. However, I believe that these two people are bound together by at least one more constant, which is like time, but operates at a constant rate. I'll call this "universal time". For this discussion, I'll call Einsteins fourth dimension (time) theoretical time. So if the top line represents Mars and the lower line represents Earth (for the sake of argument, just assume that time increases at twice the rate on Mars as it does Earth), in my theory, it can be assumed that a person on Mars will, in theoretical time, age at twice that of the rate as an Earthling, but they both age at the same universal time.

Based on this theory, in order for an object to come from the future, it would have to increase its universal time, which is not possible.

* Although I am thinking this at this very moment, if somebody came up with a way to come back to this exact moment in time, I'd still be thinking the same thing; but, since I'm currently in the present, it's not *yet* possible (make sense?).

Chad pranking his step son Justice with my scary maze game

Watch what happens when this poor kid plays a maze game familiar to many of us.