Since All Hallows’ Eve is nigh upon us, I've been preparing this year's outfit. I don't have it quite finished just yet, so pictures will have to wait. This year, I will be going as Vincent from the game Catherine, specifically his nightmare form.
Warning: this is an image heavy post!
Reason.tv has up today a video of Peter Schiff at the Occupy Wall Street rally with a camera and a microphone engaging people there in debate. It's almost 20 minutes long, but I watched the whole thing. There's a lot I could say, with a bullet point list of time codes and comments, but the number one feeling that ran throughout the whole thing for me was this: debate is difficult.
What do I mean by that? Let's analyze my statement closer, in the context of this video and the OWS movement as a whole.
Recently a co-worker and I were discussing voter identification in the context of some state, which I have since forgotten specifically, passing or possibly attempting to pass some law requiring it. He was in favor of it and I, unsurprisingly, was against it. The details aren't important, really, because I want to elaborate on some broader points.
As I see it, my co-worker was making two big fundamental mistakes.
In a couple of our systems at work we store file attachments. The data gets put in a database table as a varbinary column. When we pull this down into our .NET apps, it’s represented as a byte[]. This is convenient to do image processing on it, as well as writing it to a file to be viewed, etc., but what about previewing straight in the application?
Was having an issue for several weeks at work where when I tried to run ASP.NET sites locally (debugger attached or not), I was getting an imposing YSOD:
The trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed.