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Monday, May 12, 2008
What I'm up to
It’s been a long time so figured I’d give a short update of what’s been up with me.
Basically, I’m still at Corporate Research International. I’ve been there for now about 2 and a half years. About a year ago now I was promoted to Senior Programmer. It’s not that big of a change. I still work on the same things pretty much. A little less of the low level stuff and more higher level but overall it’s the same. I have more responsiblity and get to boss around the underlings. Overall, I’d say it’s ok but not great. We’re always swamped with work and spend a lot of time playing catch up.
Anyhoo, that’s pretty much it. Still at the same place and still doing the same things.
Saturday, April 19, 2008
No I'm Not Dead...Yet!
It has been over two years since i’ve posted on this thing. How do you like that? 
Crazy how time flies sometimes. Lots of stuff has happened in my life. Too much to write all here and plenty I’d rather just forget.
The short story is basically this. Still at the same job and still with the same girlfriend.
I’m going to try to start blogging again. We’ll see how long I can keep it up.
Anyway. Peace out!
Saturday, January 28, 2006
Could not create a Disk Cache Sub-directory for the Application Pool
Error: The Template Persistent Cache initialization failed for Application Pool ‘DefaultAppPool’ because of the following error: Could not create a Disk Cache Sub-directory for the Application Pool. The data may have additional error codes..
If you happen to see this error pop up on your Windows Server 2003 system here’s how to fix it.
Basically, the problem is there are two user groups (IIS_WPG and NETWORK SERVICE) that don’t have permissions set on the following three folders:
%systemroot%\Help\IISHelp\Common
%systemroot%\System32\Inetsrv\ASP Compiled Templates
%systemroot%\IIS Temporary Compressed Files
%systemroot% is usually C:\windows or C:\winnt by the way!
For “%systemroot%\Help\IISHelp\Common ” give both groups; Read and Execute, List Folder Contents, and Read permissions.
For “%systemroot%\System32\Inetsrv\ASP Compiled Templates” and “%systemroot%\IIS Temporary Compressed Files” give both groups full control.
then after that you’ll have to restart IIS.
1. Click Start, click Run, type Services.msc, and then click OK.
2. Right-click IIS Admin, and then click Restart.
That should fix that silly problem!
on 01/28/2006 at 12:14 PM
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Monday, January 09, 2006
There Are 24 Useable Hours In Every Day
The problem is 24 isn’t enough! Oy, do I have such a list of things to do.
Between work and starting my webhosting business I’m just short about 12 hours a day!
Someone help me!
Sunday, December 25, 2005
Merry Christmas 2005
Well I hope everyone is having a wonderful and safe Christmas!
I have and wait till i tell you what goodies I received and gave this year. I’m pretty dead right now and busy yet but in another day or two I’ll get that posted.
Merry Christmas!
Sunday, December 11, 2005
How to get 50 free MP3s legally
Maybe this is old news but I’m a little slow. HA!
Long story short, I went with my girlfriend to the Historical Museum today. They have this nice Christmas display they run every year. Anyhoo, they were playing Christmas music and it was “Christmas Time is Here” from the Charlie Brown Christmas album.
It’s a great song and I really wanted to have it so I started digging around the net for it. I found out it’s in the eMusic.com library.
eMusic I think is the only pay music site on the net that actually uses normal non-DRMed MP3s. They do a monthly subscription model where you can download a preset number of songs. It varies but the cheapest plan is 9.99/mo for 40 downloads. That’s not too bad when you think about it. One cd will burn you 12-20bucks right? And it only has maybe 10 songs. I’d say 10 bucks for 40 tracks is a pretty good deal.
So I see they have a free trail membership where you can download 50 songs for free and keep them even if you cancel your subscriptions.
So, this is where I’m getting 50 free MP3s legally. I’ll be downloading the whole Charlie Brown Christmas album plus whatever else I find this week then cancel my subscription.
The only downfall to their service is the music quality. Songs are only encoded at 192kbps variable bit rate. Which is good enough for most people but it would be nice to have the option of getting nice 320kbps archive quality files.
But it’ll do just fine and I’ll be happy with what I get considering it’s free!
Saturday, December 10, 2005
Hey, Wait! I still have a blog?
Heh, long time no post huh? I won’t bother apologizing because I’m sure you all understand how hectic life can be.
Well as I said in my last post, I no longer work at UPS as I have a new job working at a company doing actual IT work!
Well, I’m basically a month into the job and so far things are going great. Everyone is nice and I’m slowing getting to know them. My coworkers have been very helpful and understanding of my learning the systems and procedures.
The place is growing by leaps and bounds and it just constantly impresses me. It’s nice to see a company growing and not doing mass layoffs (You hear that GM? Maybe you should send your execs to come mentor here, so they can learn a thing or two about how to run a successful business!)
So anyhoo, the job is great but just a bit tiring with the commute. I’m up at 6:30am every morning. Shower, shave… you get the idea. I’m on the road by 7:15 and in the lot by 7:50ish. Clock in and at my desk by 8 and spend the day busily working. The day’s over around 5-5:15ish and I’m back out and on the road. I get home by 6 and start the nightly decompress.
That’s why I haven’t posted in a month. I’m usually pretty tired and I get sidetracked doing other things. So Mr Blog gets put on the back burner.
I’ll try to be better about posting now that I’m getting used to the routine. Big things are a brewing and I’d like to try to document it all as I think it would be very interesting for everyone.
How’s that for a teaser? HA!