Lost in OK

After long last, I finally got a chance to post the photos from this gala event . . .

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Finally answering the question, “How many Internet/You Tube jokes can be crammed into one music video.”:

I know I still need to finish the story of my adventure to New Orleans. Just been a bit busy. In the mean time, I finally got a chance to upload my photos from the trip.

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A Beautiful Morning

I could get used to this as my morning view after a wonderful night’s sleep in a big four poster bed.

So, with short notice and good fortune, a chance arose this year for me to go back to New Orleans for Jazzfest after an extended absence. Also, owing to good fortune, this opportunity aligned with previously scheduled time off so as to allow me another of my grand road trips. Of course, you can’t have a good road trip without at least one good disaster. So far, this year it came in the form of a nasty sore throat which started early Sunday morning. It turned out to be a nasty case of Strep Throat. Thankfully, antibiotics still work and after after my first doctors visit in nine years, I was quickly on the mend.

Odd Sculpture

Can’t quite figure out the meaning of this one . . .

We’ve been getting some descent flooding down here during this spring season.  My friend Jason caught an interesting shot of some of the flood waters:

Seems like a dangerous drive to me.

Apparently, toy maker Playmobil thinks there’s a burgeoning market in toys for a police state including this roadblock setup.  According to the description, they have stop signs, maps and pistols.  Of course, if they were really going to do this right, I think they need black cloth bags, zip cuffs and truncheons.  Via Hit n’ Run.

The French have come up with a way to finally improve the self-esteem of all of those bicycle cops:

About 3,000 officers were deployed on motorcycles, in jogging gear and with inline roller skates [my emphasis].

Protests halt Paris torch relay early - Yahoo! News

I recently had a task in one of my current projects that required me to extract the authentication mode of the current solution’s web.config file. The only was I figured out how to do it was by parsing the XML of the file by hand as shown below (Yeah, I know, it’s VB.NET. I do what the client wants.):

Dim config As New System.Xml.XmlDocument() config.Load(Server.MapPath(“Web.config”)) Dim authMode As System.Xml.XmlNode = config.SelectSingleNode("/configuration/system.web/authentication/@mode") Return authMode.Value