Microsoft’s Click-Once publishing technology is great, but their documentation isn’t. Thanks to Robin over at Robin.Net for making this rather arcane process so simple even I could accomplish the task:
http://robindotnet.wordpress.com/2009/04/22/clickonce-installing-multiple-versions-concurrently/
Muslims and communists are not the only ones persecuting Christians.
MIGDAL HA-EMEQ, Israel, June 22 (Compass Direct News) – When the congregation at St. Nicolay church in this northern Israeli town gathered on that quiet Friday morning of May 29, they never expected to be showered with stones. The Russian Orthodox worshipers, including many women, children and the elderly, had filled the small building to overflow with several outside when they were stunned by the rain of stones. Some were injured and received medical care. The church had also been attacked earlier that week, during a wedding ceremony. Stones and rotten eggs were thrown from the street, hitting guests as they arrived. The identity of the assailants is unknown – a police officer said the complaint “lacked the exact description of the attackers” – but eye-witnesses claimed they were ultra-orthodox yeshiva students who frequently cursed the church on their way to the school or synagogue. “They often assault us verbally, curse and yell at us, although we tried to explain that this is a place of worship, a holy place,” said a frustrated Oleg Usenkov, press secretary of the church, adding that police inaction amounts to nonfeasance.
Note to self: check this out when you have more time:
http://sonspring.com/journal/960-grid-system
It’s been a while since I have posted anything about Christian persecution, but that doesn’t mean it is not happening!
I will add a few posts this morning. All news items come from Compass Direct News.
What follows is a blog posting from Russian blogger Mat Rodina.
Sometimes the truth hurts.
It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people.
True, the situation has been well prepared on and off for the past century, especially the past twenty years. The initial testing grounds was conducted upon our Holy Russia and a bloody test it was. But we Russians would not just roll over and give up our freedoms and our souls, no matter how much money Wall Street poured into the fists of the Marxists.
Those lessons were taken and used to properly prepare the American populace for the surrender of their freedoms and souls, to the whims of their elites and betters.
First, the population was dumbed down through a politicized and substandard education system based on pop culture, rather then the classics. Americans know more about their favorite TV dramas then the drama in DC that directly affects their lives. They care more for their “right” to choke down a McDonalds burger or a BurgerKing burger than for their constitutional rights. Then they turn around and lecture us about our rights and about our “democracy”. Pride blind the foolish.
Then their faith in God was destroyed, until their churches, all tens of thousands of different “branches and denominations” were for the most part little more then Sunday circuses and their televangelists and top protestant mega preachers were more then happy to sell out their souls and flocks to be on the “winning” side of one pseudo Marxist politician or another. Their flocks may complain, but when explained that they would be on the “winning” side, their flocks were ever so quick to reject Christ in hopes for earthly power. Even our Holy Orthodox churches are scandalously liberalized in America.
The final collapse has come with the election of Barack Obama. His speed in the past three months has been truly impressive. His spending and money printing has been a record setting, not just in America’s short history but in the world. If this keeps up for more then another year, and there is no sign that it will not, America at best will resemble the Wiemar Republic and at worst Zimbabwe.
These past two weeks have been the most breath taking of all. First came the announcement of a planned redesign of the American Byzantine tax system, by the very thieves who used it to bankroll their thefts, loses and swindles of hundreds of billions of dollars. These make our Russian oligarchs look little more then ordinary street thugs, in comparison. Yes, the Americans have beat our own thieves in the shear volumes. Should we congratulate them?
These men, of course, are not an elected panel but made up of appointees picked from the very financial oligarchs and their henchmen who are now gorging themselves on trillions of American dollars, in one bailout after another. They are also usurping the rights, duties and powers of the American congress (parliament). Again, congress has put up little more then a whimper to their masters.
Then came Barack Obama’s command that GM’s (General Motor) president step down from leadership of his company. That is correct, dear reader, in the land of “pure” free markets, the American president now has the power, the self given power, to fire CEOs and we can assume other employees of private companies, at will. Come hither, go dither, the centurion commands his minions.
So it should be no surprise, that the American president has followed this up with a “bold” move of declaring that he and another group of unelected, chosen stooges will now redesign the entire automotive industry and will even be the guarantee of automobile policies. I am sure that if given the chance, they would happily try and redesign it for the whole of the world, too. Prime Minister Putin, less then two months ago, warned Obama and UK’s Blair, not to follow the path to Marxism, it only leads to disaster. Apparently, even though we suffered 70 years of this Western sponsored horror show, we know nothing, as foolish, drunken Russians, so let our “wise” Anglo-Saxon fools find out the folly of their own pride.
Again, the American public has taken this with barely a whimper…but a “freeman” whimper.
So, should it be any surprise to discover that the Democratically controlled Congress of America is working on passing a new regulation that would give the American Treasury department the power to set “fair” maximum salaries, evaluate performance and control how private companies give out pay raises and bonuses? Senator Barney Franks, a social pervert basking in his homosexuality (of course, amongst the modern, enlightened American societal norm, as well as that of the general West, homosexuality is not only not a looked down upon life choice, but is often praised as a virtue) and his Marxist enlightenment, has led this effort. He stresses that this only affects companies that receive government monies, but it is retroactive and taken to a logical extreme, this would include any company or industry that has ever received a tax break or incentive.
The Russian owners of American companies and industries should look thoughtfully at this and the option of closing their facilities down and fleeing the land of the Red as fast as possible. In other words, divest while there is still value left.
The proud American will go down into his slavery with out a fight, beating his chest and proclaiming to the world, how free he really is. The world will only snicker.
Stanislav Mishin
The article originally appears on the blog Mat Rodina.
Is this thing for real? I know the technology is available – it should be relatively simple, actually…but are we really at this stage in our society?
http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=98386
Anyone remember the movie, Logan’s Run? Even it did not go this far.
This has bit me a couple of times now, so I am posting this here for my own future reference.
FROM an MSDN article :
ASP.NET AJAX: Inside JSON date and time string
The AJAX JSON serializer in ASP.NET encodes a DateTime instance as a JSON string. During its pre-release cycles, ASP.NET AJAX used the format “@ticks@“, where ticks represents the number of milliseconds since January 1, 1970 in Universal Coordinated Time (UTC). A date and time in UTC like November 29, 1989, 4:55:30 AM would be written out as “@62831853071@.” Although simple and straightforward, this format cannot differentiate between a serialized date and time value and a string that looks like a serialized date but is not meant to be deserialized as one. Consequently, the ASP.NET AJAX team made a change for the final release to address this problem by adopting the “\/Date(ticks)\/” format.
The new format relies on a small trick to reduce the chance for misinterpretation. In JSON, a forward-slash (/) character in a string can be escaped with a backslash (\) even though it is not strictly required. Taking advantage of this, the ASP.NET AJAX team modified JavaScriptSerializer to write a DateTime instance as the string “\/Date(ticks)\/” instead. The escaping of the two forward-slashes is superficial, but significant to JavaScriptSerializer. By JSON rules,
"\/Date(ticks)\/"is technically equivalent to"/Date(ticks)/"but the JavaScriptSerializer will deserialize the former as a DateTime and the latter as a String. The chances for ambiguity are therefore considerably less when compared to the simpler “@ticks@” format from the pre-releases.
Here is how to deserialize the ASP.Net datetime string on the client-side:
function DateDeserialize(dateStr) {
return eval('new' + dateStr.replace(/\//g, ' '));
}
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