Ravings of an Intermittent Fool

If you ever find yourself out and forced into doing a karaoke performance, let me suggest a song by Jimmy Buffett. 98.4% of his songs include at least one drinking or drug reference and that is sure to get the crowd on your side.

As of late, I've been experimenting SharePoint v3's Feature Feature for adding new functionality and UI elements to a SharePoint v3 site. So far, I've just been playing around with the meager examples in the SDK and trying to fill in the gaps in the documentation by looking at the out of the box feature definitions. One learning that I did have is that while experimenting with Features, IISReset must be your friend. It seems like all the xml definition files are cached in IIS's memory so changing them on disk has no immediate effect. Also surprising is that going thru the cycle of deactiving the feature, uninstalling the feature, making the change, installing the feature, then activating the feature had no effect. It still used the version that was cached into memory. You must recycle your application pool before the change will go into effect.

Seeing this article on DVRs and Political Ads really makes me happy to be a DVR owner and it reminded me of a situation last night I had while exercising. I was watching football while running on the treadmill in our basement (which doesn't have a DVR attached to it). Since I normally never watch live tv, I was astounded by the amount of political ads. There seemingly was one or two per commercial break. Thankfully, I put the tv on mute and turn on the iPod for such occasions but it was still bewildering.

Tanara - the blare of a trumpet or horn

If you've ever wanted to open up a set of bookmarks in Forefox but hated that it closed all your tabs when it did it, then I have a tip for you. This Ask MetaFilter question contains the answer to have to change the default setting to make Firefox work in the way that most people expect it to.

Its articles like this one on Domestic power plugs and sockets that make me love the Wikipedia so much. So obsessively comprehensive with lots of details and pictures.

I've just learned that a determined 2 year old can get a Bob the Tomato figurine into a Subwoofer if he tries really hard.

What kind of fashion show provokes or attracts someone who jump a police officer? Let alone a 17 year old girl who jumps a police officer?!?

Here is a picture of the world's cutest nephew enjoying what might be the world's most perfect food, the Corndog. A few more pictures are available in the gallery.

Oh the things you learn each day. I just figured out that to create a newline in a cell in Excel, you need to press Alt-Enter. In any other Windows application of course, Shift+Enter is the appropriate keystroke.
(via Bobby Maisnam)