Not only would I be too chicken to walk this, but there were spots in the video that made my stomach jump!
Our Savior! Wednesday, Apr 23 2008
Economics 8:53 pm
National City was just saved by a huge investment from Corsair Capital and other private investment firms. According to Corsair’s vice chairman, in this interview, we should expect another 18-24 months of pain in the banking sector, but National City should pull through it all.
CNBC interviews Richard Thornburgh.
It’s worth the four minutes it’ll take you to watch this, if you’re interested in what’s going on with banks and National City, in particular.
ALT.NET Code Wednesday, Apr 23 2008
ALT.NET 12:45 pm
First, go read Scott Hanselman’s description of ALT.NET and why you should care about it.
He describes a new “code” for describing your level of “ALT.NETishness.”
Here’s mine:
Old Family Photos Saturday, Apr 19 2008
Childhood and Life in Ohio 5:00 am
Here are a few old pictures I found tonight, that I thought you might enjoy seeing…
We’re Buying a House! Tuesday, Apr 15 2008
Life in Ohio and Moving House hunting 2:29 am
This evening we went to see this house again:
The owners are asking $204,900 for it and we really liked it! Feeling they were being reasonable, but that we should make a lower offer on principle, we offered $200,000. We can afford to pay the mortgage, but we don’t have a lot of liquid cash right now, so we also asked for the seller to cover our closing costs…
Well, I just got off the phone with our realtor, who called to say they had countered with $204,000 plus agreed to pay up to $8,000 of our closing costs! Because I’m getting a VA loan, that should be plenty to get us into the house, no problem!
If you’d like to see more pictures, you can check them out here: http://flickr.com/photos/kenlefeb/sets/72157604479075121/
You can also check out the Zillow listing, here: http://www.zillow.com/Gallery.htm?zpid=33522573
New Server Monday, Apr 14 2008
Around the House development workstation, home server, Windows Server 2008 12:12 am
Well, as I mentioned a few days ago, I had some hardware issues with my server. When I installed Vista on that machine a couple months ago, I had moved all the user profiles to a secondary hard drive, drive D. The drive cable had jostled loose, somehow, and caused Windows to revert back to drive C for the user profiles.
After fixing the cable, I rebooted the system, expecting to see my old profiles come back as I’ve seen it do in the past. They didn’t. The drive was perfectly usable, but I kept getting an “access denied” error when the operating system tried to access drive D to mount the profiles. As an interactive user, I had no access problems, just the operating system account had problems.
Well, being relatively unmotivated when it comes to fiddling with my system, I decided to reinstall Windows. That’s always a sure-fire cure for whatever’s wrong, right? 
Oh, and since I’m going to be reinstalling the operating system anyway, why not switch to Windows Server 2008, not that it’s available on MSDN? I’ve been hearing great things about using it as a development platform, as an alternative to Vista, so it seemed a natural decision.
It’s still installing various roles and features, now, so we’ll see how I like it… so far, the installation went smoothly enough. It still doesn’t recognize my NVidia NForce 8650 out of the box, but once I downloaded the drivers from the NVidia site, I got my nice high resolution, multimonitor configuration back up and running. I’m also installing the User Experience feature, so I can still enjoy all the pretty eye candy of Vista!
I probably won’t get around to reinstalling Visual Studio, Resharper, SQL Server, Visual SVN, etc., until later in the week, so I won’t really get to experience coding on Windows Server 2008 for awhile. But, at least, I’ve got access to my media library again! I was in the middle of watching Highlander, Season 1, when the system went down, so I was anxiously waiting to get back to the show.
Incompetence or Fear? Thursday, Apr 10 2008
This is a great video of Ron Paul asking a simple “Yes or No” question. Is the response he gets founded in incompetence or fear of the truth? What do you think?
Either way, it’s not good…
