October 2006 - Posts - Derek Adkins

October 2006 - Posts

OT: MotoGP yesterday

I have to just mention that yesterday's race in Valencia was, for me, the best bit of TV in a long time...

Firstly, Bayliss coming from winning the World Superbike Championship this year, riding Sete Gibernau's Ducati, wins the race in a glorious fashion by leading from the very first corner.  (And embarrassing Sete at the same time who could barely manage a top 10 position on that bike the whole season.)

And... ROSSI BITING THE DUST on lap 4... handing the championship to Nicky Hayden!!  I haven't been happier in a long time.  :)

Yes, I know Rossi is a brilliant motorcycle rider, and yes he also deserved the championship...  But I'm glad that finally someone else has wrestled it away from him, ending Rossi's complete domination of the class for the last 5 years.

I am so looking forward to the next season with the new 800cc bikes... 

 

URL's with parameters in web.config

How would you do something like this under appSettings in the web.config file:

<add key="reportUrl" value="http://www.myreportserver.com/Customer%20Online/?comp=A&user=bob&level=2"/>

Because the validation fails with " Expecting ';' " at the ampersand.  I'm sure there must be an escape character I can use to store URL's with parameters in the web.config file.

Any help will be appreciated!

I rock at Basic!

Oh man!  I gotta get me one of these!  I remember this from when my dad used to bring his work IBM XT home, and we would play Frogger and Digger and Montezuma's Revenge BOOTED from a 5 inch floppy!  Good times!

http://www.glarkware.com/securestore/c181845p16832516.2.html

Found here: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000693.html