Crossword

Rationalist – 2011-07-07

Are you missing a reference?

No, I’m not. The dll compiles fine, the class I’m trying to use is visible in the output and public, and the reference is pointing to the right file. The IDE recognises it, and will even navigate to the definition, but it won’t compile.

Are you missing a reference?

No. The problem may be that the target framework of the dll is .NET Framework 4 and the the target framework of the exe is .NET Framework 4 Client Profile. Client Profile is the default target framework for Windows Services and Console Applications. Change it to .NET Framework 4 and all should be well.

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This magic Guid is how Visual Studio 2010 decides whether or not your project is a self-hosted WCF service. If the is found in the ProjectTypeGuids element, the WCF debugging client will be started, no matter which other project(s) you have set up as the startup for the solution.

More details here.

Just closed my Paypal account

I feel cleaner already.

UFOs

About 10pm last night, north of Albany, moving West to East, apparently at about the speed of aircraft, but very bright, and orange. Two of them, closer than aircraft usually get. Could have been something coming out of Whenuapai. If not, I guess it must have been aliens.

Paypal

Not only will they not let me use my Paypal account in a way that realizes the international nature of the internet, their your credit card authorization service does the same utterly retarded things.

I have a Target Visa. The billing is between me and Retailers National Bank. It’s not up to Paypal to tell them that they’re not allowed to have customers in New Zealand.

I want to buy Christmas gifts for my niece and nephews in England. The internet allows me to have gifts shipped to them from retailers in the UK, saving shipping costs and CO2 emissions. But you won’t let me enter a shipping address outside New Zealand. I have to have their gifts shipped here first, and then ship them back again, a round trip of 25 thousand miles.

I hope they’re proud of themselves.

Port

To whoever sent me the bottle of Warre’s for my birthday, thank you very much!

Last minute election thoughts

Helen Clarke is not the only one who doesn’t look like her posters. Nikki Kaye looks about 16 in real life (I saw her from the bus on Wednesday morning and Thursday afternoon).

I don’t see a reason to assume that Clarke’s photos were retouched. I think people underestimate what you can do with makeup, lighting and a good camera.

I spoke to Viv Goldsmith (Labour, East Coast Bays) this morning. We had a discussion on school donations. Some schools are excluding children from events because their parents haven’t paid the “optional” donation. That’s not on. Sherwood and Northcross charge separate activity fees for events, and there are options to get those fees reduced. Viv has made in-kind donations to schools rather than pay the donation in the past. She also pointed out that Westlake Boys would be a lot less dependent on donations if they took more than 40% of their students from in-zone.

So, voting tomorrow. I’m going to vote for Viv Goldsmith, but my party vote is going to the Greens.

I haven’t voted in person in 16 years (John Major’s 1992 re-election), unless there was a council or European election between then and when I left the UK in 1994 which I’ve forgotten. I voted for a losing candidate then, as I did in Cambridge in 1987.

Dan has my proxy vote now. I don’t know if he’ll use a postal vote, or if he’ll drive up from Cambridge to St. Ives to vote.

Quote of the day

“The only viable COBOL documentation … is a Rosetta Stone of Java, UML and COBOL, but there aren’t enough 80-column punch cards or greenbar left to make extra copies of it.” — John Deters

A non-beer-related haiku

Snooze button

Each alarm clock ring

Is the egg of a new day

Which I’ll have scrambled.