Author Archive

Multiple Concurrent Click-Once Versions

August 3, 2009

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/

Israel: Church Showered with Stones in North

June 23, 2009

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 [...]

960 Grid System

June 9, 2009

Note to self: check this out when you have more time:
http://sonspring.com/journal/960-grid-system

37 Year old Muslim Forces 12-year-old Christian Girl to Convert, Marry

June 8, 2009

LAHORE, Pakistan, June 4 (Compass Direct News) – The Christian mother of a 12-year-old girl in Punjab Province who was kidnapped, coerced into converting to Islam and forcibly married to a 37-year-old Muslim hopes to recover her daughter at a court hearing next week.
The reaction of Pakistani law enforcement authorities to Sajida Masih’s complaint so [...]

Indonesia: Mayor Revokes Church Permit

June 4, 2009

JAKARTA, Indonesia, May 5 (Compass Direct News) – Church members in Depok city, West Java, are unable to use their church building after the mayor, citing protests from area Muslims, revoked a permit issued in 1998. Under a Joint Ministerial Decree (SKB) issued in 1969 and revised in 2006, all religious groups in Indonesia must [...]

Egypt: Swine Destruction Threatens Coptic-Run Industry

June 4, 2009

CAIRO, Egypt, May 5 (Compass Direct News) – Authorities yesterday pressed ahead with the slaughter of Egypt’s pigs – crippling the livelihood of thousands of swine breeders, nearly all Coptic Christians – in spite of World Health Organization (WHO) criticism that the measure was unnecessary for fighting the A(H1-N1) flu strain. No cases of the [...]

Persecution News

June 4, 2009

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.

Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch.

June 2, 2009

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 [...]

Killer Chip?

May 19, 2009

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.

ASP.Net and JSON date/time strings

May 18, 2009

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 [...]