Archive for June, 2003

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Poor Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf. Doesn’t look to be in too good shape. War has not been kind.

So I’m working at home yesterday, using the Visual Studio 6.0 VB debugger, plugging away at some code, and I start the debugger so I can walk through some buggy code that I wrote. I get this message:

I’m like whhhaaaaaaaaa? Never seen it before. And I only get it when I try to debug dll’s or ocx’s, exe’s work fine. So I go to microsoft’s “knowledge base”, and it said that I either had a bad entry in my registry (I didn’t), or to reinstall client networking. What??? That doesn’t make any sense.
So I mettle with it some more, but the pesky problem still persists.

So I go into work today (yes I occasionally work sundays), and try the debugger, and it works just fine!
So I figure it must have something to do with the fact that I was dialed in thru a VPN on saturday, and sunday I was actually at my work machine. I bet one of those stupid useless security patches that they make you install did this, it must have thought I was an intruder trying to randomly run com objects (even though i was authenticated correctly).

Useless security. If I can’t use my debugger, how can I be expected to sit in my basement and write code without wearing pants?

Most people on father’s day get their pop a stupid tie, or a dumb plant that they don’t want, or some piece of crap from sears that they could probably do without.
This year I did something different.
Instead of buying him something lame, I dug a pit.
A big pit.

The purpose of the pit is to house a new fish pond in his back yard. When it’s done, it will probably be the coolest thing ever. The current fish pond (which is going away) is a habitat for fish, frogs, dragonflies, and anything else that decided to make a home in it over the years. Even in the dead of winter, when the water had frozen all the way to the bottom, the fish lived on in suspended animation to pop up again next year. It’s incredible, I thought only bears and Tom Arnold did that.
Anyway, back to the pit. To be fair, he did most of the work, and the entire pit messures about 15*10*3.5 feet.
That’s a little over 500 cubic feet of dirt, rocks, roots and earthworms. My hands are horribly broken, covered in blisters and cuts, and my back is killing me. But it was fun! I can’t wait until there’s some fish living in it.. they get HUGE.