Tetchy!

Link spammers are now getting a bit tetchy. Here’s a sample from the spam filter for the blog’s comments:

Parody

I love a good Thomas Kinkade parody: http://www.salon.com/2012/04/09/kinkades_world_of_parody/slide_show/1

Scraping by

My ass has been handed to me. Spent the day scraping the porch floor so we can get it painted. Various fingers and hands are stiff and swollen. Tomorrow should be a fun day at work. Only 66% of the porch to go.

Special place

That moment when you make a commit to the repository of the culmination of several days worth of grinding on a problem. This is me. The extra special sauce being that it is one of the cornerstone modules so not only do I get to watch it build before I go home, I get to…

Lessons learned

Learning lessons all day today it seems. Pretty sure I’ve learned these in the past…so obviously I’m not doing as well as I thought. When you write an MSI custom action that depends on stuff being there, make sure your custom action conditions are such that it doesn’t fire on an uninstall operation. Somewhat related:…

An ru TLD that isn’t malicious

The exception proving the rule that every site from the .ru domain is either spam or trying to hijack your computer: Fat Cat Art [1]. The Man Kitty [2] lives in fear that I find myself with sufficient idle time to undertake a similar project using his visage. [1] http://fatcatart.ru/?lang=en [2] https://www.facebook.com/oscartjefferson

Windows installer [sucks]

So, for whatever reason, Windows Installer service doesn’t just install crap. Instead, it runs through all of the steps to an installation in some kind of imaginary sandbox thing and then it runs everything again on the live system. Sure, all of this is probably well and good. You don’t want to be halfway to…