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Crazy stage

2010-03-08T18:56:00.000-08:00

Well its crazy, no sleep time for the boys. We had it with Jacqueline and now we have it with the boys. Luckily this time I can recognise it and mitigate the damage from no sleep.

TV intros

2010-01-19T23:16:00.000-08:00

Does every tv show need an intro before the titles? I want to go back to titles then show then credits!

Sent from my Windows® phone.

Why I am not on Facebook

2009-12-17T03:01:00.001-08:00

I have three main reasons:

I hate the applications – I do not want to know nor do I care about someone's Mafia Wars status.
Facebook blurs acquaintances, friends, good friends and family. Some people should not have to get a status update on my kids.
Facebook makes it hard to distinguish a public and private persona.

I will be still blogging and on other social networking sites but not facebook.

Long time no blog

2009-12-06T13:04:00.001-08:00

Been a little busy lately. Having fun with work and the kids. Nothing really to report.

Big thankyou to Emily Waghorne

2009-11-13T03:28:00.001-08:00

A long time ago a great lady named Emily Waghorne told me about Bitwise operations. It saved my bacon again.

Thanks Em!

Still alive

2009-10-26T19:17:00.000-07:00

Haven't blogged for a bit but I am still alive. The kids are bigger and fine. I've just been busy...

TechEd Party

2009-09-10T04:50:00.000-07:00

Well Brendon and I went on every ride possible. We dropped 39 stories, we went upside down lots. It was great!

Intel Core I7

2009-09-08T22:45:00.000-07:00

Wow! - overclocking on demand.

Brendon @ TechEd 2009

2009-09-08T21:19:00.001-07:00

Brendon @ TechEd 2009
Originally uploaded by newellrichards

Brendon listening to the WCF session.

Aberlour 10 yr old

2009-08-11T23:50:00.001-07:00

Well last night it was time to taste Aberlour. I am going to put the tasting notes of their web site which are in bold and I have put my comments below that.

Tasting Notes

A classic Speyside single malt, matured in a combination of bourbon and sherry casks. Welcoming, vibrant and rewarding.

Overall it was an above average scotch but not the greatest I have tasted.

Nose
The dry, fresh, fruity aromas of early autumn apples and pears are subtly enhanced with sweet notes of vanilla and mint toffee.

Newell: Really no smell at all.

Taste
Exceptionally smooth and creamy, with spicy-sweet nutmeg and honey combining with the dewy freshness of autumn fruits.

Newell: I thought there was caramel and some sweet port?

Finish
Long, soft and warming.

Newell: Yep, agree

It would really depend on the price for me to buy this again.Its not fantastic but I will definitely enjoy finishing the bottle.

Update:

Its now $45 in Australia – buy it!

Scotch tastings

2009-08-09T20:05:00.001-07:00

As some people know I love my scotch and quite opinionated about it. The whiskies I buy aren’t the most expensive and can generally be purchased anywhere. The point of the my tasting notes is to keep a personal record.

I just lifted him over.....

2009-07-29T21:03:00.000-07:00

AAARRRGH!

See-saw

2009-07-22T22:20:00.001-07:00

See-saw
Originally uploaded by newellrichards

The boys tested the see-saw today. William is at the front. David decided he hated the back soon after this.

Feeling much better

2009-06-23T16:32:00.001-07:00

Well its four days on and I am feeling much better. A big thanks to Katie.

Twitter

2009-06-20T21:05:00.001-07:00

I just deleted my twitter username. Why? Because I don’t use it. Maybe if the SMS worked but to be honest I don’t think so. I just don’t see the use.

Ow Ow Ow!

2009-06-19T18:20:00.001-07:00

Well the snip has occurred and I am very sore, especially after Jacqueline decided to shove Thomas the tank engine into my groin.
But up until then it wasn't too bad. Oh well a REALLY quiet weekend this one and no hockey. Sorry team!
Everyone can feel sorry for Sarah: She has the kids all weekend while I moan and act like a male with any sickness.

Initial SPA9000 Configuration

2009-06-11T16:38:00.001-07:00

Well I now have an Linksys SPA9000 PBX (firmware 6.15). And I am going to try to make some notes to help others. First of all, there is a LOT of information on the internet that is wrong with the latest versions of the firmware. It is not hard or complicated to get up and running with the SPA9000 but you can do some really complicated things with it.

What hardware do I have?

I have a Billion 7404 modem router (firmware 5.73), I connect to 2 providers, one being IINET and some DECT phones.

Configuration

First of all I would recommend getting a SysLog Server on your PC. I recommend SysLog Watcher Personal Edition, its free and quite a good interface. This will mean you can see what's happening on the SPA9000 if things go wrong. This is

Billion 7404

There is a lot of stuff on the web about ports/firewall changes and complicated things like that. The fact is you just need to turn off VOIP. To do this you access the VOIP web configuration and disable SIP under general settings.

I also went into Advanced and switched the VOIP from WAN to LAN but I have no reason why, really just belt and braces.

SPA9000

I used the configuration wizard which runs on your PC. This is a download from Cisco and very easy to use. It allows you to setup one Line, configure the network and any clients. Once through the wizard, all I had to do was dial 9 to get an outside line and could make phone calls.

Advanced Additions

I have now setup the SPA with the fax using the second line and XLite on my computer as an extension. I used the web administration for this and the cisco manual.

Long weekend sick

2009-06-08T18:24:00.000-07:00

Went for a walk an basically nothing else. I did buy the ugliest crocs ever for $10, I thought they might make good garden shoes.

Having a connected phone

2009-06-04T22:07:00.001-07:00

One of the benefits of having a connected phone is you can get emails. But over time people find out this fact. The issue with this is the expectation that goes with it. Should I have to respond immediately?

I actually have done this to someone else and find myself in the “Why haven’t I had a response?” mode. Obviously this is really silly, email is meant to be quicker than post but not requiring an immediate response.

I wonder how social etiquette will go as more and more phones have email available.

Apologies to anyone I have badgered ;-).

Enabling MSDTC on Vista

2009-06-03T17:24:00.001-07:00

System.Transactions are being used in this latest project and as a result you have to enable MSDTC. Heres the link:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753510.aspx

IIS 7 and the IUSR

2009-06-02T21:27:00.001-07:00

http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/140/understanding-the-built-in-user-and-group-accounts-in-iis-70/

ARRRGGGGGHHHHH!

ASPState Installation Gotcha

2009-06-02T21:09:00.001-07:00

In case this blog gets deleted:

ASPState Installation Gotcha

My development machine is getting unstable. So I decided to reload my computer from scratch.

One of the tasks is to install ASPState to ASP.Net applications. It’s been a long time I install ASP.Net. And I’m repeating the same old mistake I made years ago.

I run this command:

C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727>aspnet_regsql.exe

That program guides me through a wizard. And it installs aspnetdb database on my machine.

But when I execute my ASP.net from Visual Studio, I get this error message:

Cannot open database requested in login ‘ASPState’. Login fails. Login failed for user ‘???’.

Hmm, that’s puzzling. I spent an hour finding out the error, and it turns out I need to run the command this way.

aspnet_regsql.exe -ssadd -sstype p -E

The wizard in aspnet_regsql.exe does not support for ASPState. I must add these parameters to create another database called ASPState.

Things are looking good. Well, almost. I got another error message when I run the ASP.Net application.

EXECUTE permission denied on object ‘GetMajorVersion’, database ‘ASPState’, owner ‘dbo’.

This is obvious to me. And the solution is simple. I must grant the database access to ASPState to appropriate users, and grant stored procedure in database ASPState EXEC permission to these users.

Here’s my lesson.

Write down note just to remind myself. I went through this problem before, and I totally forget all these details. If I spent time to write it down, I don’t have to go through the pain twice.

Here’s interesting link related to ASPState

Thank you Ken Wong!

Subversion and Ankh

2009-06-02T16:16:00.001-07:00

I am again working on a project that involves Subversion and a fair distance between developers. As per usual I have Ankh integrated into Visual Studio 2008. One of the issues I found was Ankh 2.0 wants to integrate source control into the solution and make changes to the solution file.
After a little googling I found that all I had to do was manually add the Ankh.Load file to the solution with nothing in it and Ankh would automatically load subversion for the project.

This means that I do not mess with the other developers but at the same time can have Subversion integrated into my development environment.

New Blog

2009-06-01T05:49:00.001-07:00

I have setup a new blog for Marijke, you can click here: Marijke's Blog to go to it. There is nothing there at the moment as she’s a busy little bee, but hopefully we’ll see some information from her in future.

Hot Ted

2009-05-27T23:29:00.000-07:00

Hot Ted had an adventure with Jacqueline. He sat in the front of the car. Then he sat with Jac, then he went to Boyd's place.
At Boyd's house he played with Jack and Boyd and visited Boyds room.
Finally he went home to Zaccy after having a big day.