By voting for this picture of Neo, our cat. The voting is only open for a week, so get to it!
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Visual Studio 2008 Setup Projects
This is going to be fairly heavy on the tech side, so you’ve been warned…
A couple weeks ago I converted the Chef code to Visual Studio 2008 – not a new .net version, just upgraded the solution and project files to the new format so I could start using the new IDE. I ran into just one small problem that was easily fixed when the conversion ran, that being a namespace getting mangled in one of the .designer.cs files that kept the code from compiling clean. Like I said, no biggie.
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WOW
And thus completes 2 solid hours of inconsolable screaming, blood curdling screaming.
All is quiet. For now.
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Snow Photo
This is a shot of the neighborhood this morning. It has been snowing like this since yesterday afternoon.
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Work
Most of you regular readers already know this, but today was my last day working at LRS. The whole experience of ending employment vividly reminded me of handing in my last Final Exam in college, and getting ready for everything to change the following day. I worked with a lot of great people during the last 8 years there and I wish them well.
Starting tomorrow I will be turning my energy and attention toward my new employer, Interapptive, Inc.! Until then… there’s LOST!
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CWLP Water Rates
It was reported in the local paper that CWLP has asked the city council to double the water rates in as short as a year and a half to pay for a new water pumping station. They say the current pump is 70 years old and in very bad shape. I’ll take their word for it, but double the rates??
I have a few questions.
1) We are currently building a new power plant, could this wait until that is completed in a few years? How much will repair costs for maintenance on this old pump to keep it going? How much to fix if it dies? In the article they mention skyrocketing steel prices as a motivation for doing the construction now, but can it wait another couple years?
2) This pump has been around for 70 years – it has been getting older every day. Why is it now an emergency, versus say 2 years ago? A 68 year old pump is almost as old as a 70 year old pump.
3) If it just HAS to be done, how about these rate increases being temporary?
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