Being a writer of two extensions for the DotNetBlogEngine I've honestly not installed any non standard extensions on my site... until now.

As  you notice there are some  links inserted at the bottom of each of my post, these are some social bookmarking sites that a lot of folks use.  I honestly don't, but I do know that a lot of people do.

With all that being said Danny Douglas wrote an extension that does this for me.  So if you run DotNetBlogEngine and want to have the links on your site then go check out his extension.

A local company, Convergys, was in the local paper with this to say about their 13,000 off shored employees.

"We've expanded our business through growth because of the high standard of customer relationship management services our employees in India provide to our clients,"

I guess I never get those when I call tech support.  I always get "Frank" who can't speak a word of clear English. 

 

First, credit where credit is due.

http://www.theluebbes.com/post/Let-The-Luebbes-email-you.aspx

Apparently Feedburner allows you (as in YOU) to be sent my post via Email.  Not everybody gets this whole blogging thing, in reality there is no reason for you to visit my site to read my blog.  And if you are on a computer you understand email, so go ahead and subscribe to my blog via email!  This is probably one of the very few features on the web that just blow me away. 

I'll add a link to the left here soon with this ability as well. 

If you put your phone number on the do not call list when it first came out, you need to reregister your number as numbers entered then will expire soon.   They are good for five years. 

So swing on by their site and register your number.

I can personally vouch that once I signed up for this the calls we got disappeared just a short time later.  It works! 

Well my mini-vacation is over, back to work in the morning.  But I got a lot of big items done and had some fun.

Friday and Saturday were typical, then on Sunday my church had a campout so I got to hang out with some of other members to get to know them a bit better.  Played some Cornhole, swam in the pool, played some pool (you know the balls and stick), then saw something I have never saw before... a shooting star.  Was pretty cool, living in the city most of your life you don't see all the stars very much.  

Woke up the next morning and went home, only to leave right away to go to the Beach Waterpark with my oldest son.  Well I wasn't blown away... it is certainly no better than the water part at Kings Island.  But it is a change of pace for me and my son (the other children are a bit to young to really enjoy a water park).  Was a bit stunned to see that they charge for the floating tubes!! What kind of rip-off is that?  $8 just to ride the slides that you have in the park I paid to get into?  Supplying them doesn't seem to be a problem with Kings Island, why is it one for them?  Found out how fat and out of shape I have become, one of their 'rides' is a monkey bar like setup where you go from bar to bar to the end to hit a chain at the end... made it for two or three bars and fell into the 7ft water!  How sad is that??

Also over this time I've been doing some programming on some side projects.  Added a feature to this blog that will replace certain words with links (already posted about).  Finally fixed the double post issue (if you use a reader you got multiple post for a while).  But the fix resulted in my last 10 post being resent to your reader. Sorry.  But it is now fixed!  Hopefully my text replacer code gets added to this product as it would be cool to be a contributer to an open source project.

Then I wanted to automate the addition of weekly sermons on the website for my church.  So I first created some web services that allows me to enter the information (title, author, etc...) into the database.  Then I created an application that does three things:
1. Adds the ID3 tags (the title, authort, etc...) to the mp3 file.  I used this library for that.
2. Uploads the files via FTP to the server.  THIS WAS DIFFICULT.  Most libraries I found hung at the end of the upload.  I was dreading having to write my own C++ library that does this not using .NET's ftp code... finally found this library that works like a champ.
3. Calls the web service I wrote.

This will save me a ton of time each Sunday. 

But back to the grind in the morning...  

Well I am off work for the next 5 days and I figured I'd take the time to add a feature to an open source project, DotNetBlogEngine.net.  However, since it is only in version 1.1.1.8 it wasn't fully ready for the solution I did implement.  So I moved it to another part of the code and it wasn't working as I expected.  So I figured I'd try to debug it....

In Visual Studion 2005 when I hit F5 it would act like it would start by my break points would have this error:

"The breakpoint will not currently be hit. No symbols have been loaded for this document"  

I fought with this for most of today, then I figured I'd do better to "Attach to Process" this sort of worked, on some pages my break points would work, on other pages I'd see the error above.  After some more fighting with this... if found out that the error was bogus!  It actually was a valid break point.  And I fixed my code... lets see if it works, this should be a link to my church.  

So if you get the above error, try ignoring it and see if it works anyways.

Outside of that, check out DotNetBlogEngine.net it is a great blog engine to have.  I've tried several, and the overall quality of this one (out side of the fact that I'm working on a beta version) is very good.

A few weeks ago on LifeHacker I read about a DNS service that blocks porn sites amoung others.  So tonight I finally decided to give it a shot and see how it goes, so far it has not had any false positives.  Every site I normally visit, I can still visit.

If you have a computer (which if you are reading this... you must ;-) ), I recommend any service like this. 

So go check it out for yourself.

- ScrubIt - 

I do some graphics for websites that I'm involved in and found this tip to be amazing!

Check it out here.

The final blogger from the Batavia Church of Christ is online.  Brian White, the student minister for the Batavia Church of Christ has come online and has even customized his blog pretty well! 

I love his latest post.

Welcome to cyberspace Brian! 

Interesting new service from Google.

Google 411 

You call them, 1-800-GOOG-411 and then they call the business for you.  Since it is over VoIP you actually connect for free from a land line.  From a cell phone your standard usage charges would apply.