A really nice background picture

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http://veimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/1438/earth_lights_lrg.jpg

This is a NASA image of the world at night, I'm guessing since you can't take the picture in one go, it's probably super-imposed a few times.

I love how the busy cities/places light up!  (ha I made a pun!)

It's a very nice picture for desktop background too -  it's a bit big and if you use the Stretch option it should fit any desktop size.

A scare

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My wife told me something scary.

We were cooking some eggs on our gas stove last night to add to our dinner.  We had the fire on the smallest setting.

Apparently we both forgot to turn it off.

When she woke up and went to the kitchen, she was surprised the kitchen is somewhat warm (usually it's freezing cold in the morning).  To her horror, the flame was still going on the stove.  She quickly turn it off.

We give thanks to the Lord that nothing had happened to us during the evening.  It was very scary.

We do have a smoke alarm, but the gas-stove was going on the smallest setting and gives off no smoke, so the alarm didn't go off.  The window was also slighly open so that the kitchen had fresh air.

PowerShell script for rebuilding ASP.NET

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# build
msbuild /t:Rebuild /v:q
# kill aspnet
get-process aspnet_wp | kill
# reset iis
iisreset
# clear log4net logs
del -force c:\logs\*.*
# poke the webpage so that IIS/ASP.NET will load the webapp
get-url http://localhost/TestProject/TestPage.aspx | out-null

 

You'll need the Power Shell Community Extensions for the last get-url cmdlet.