Brent Rockwood

So what happened was, I was building an installer using WiX (version 3), and I was using periods in my component ids.  Then when you install the component, everything appears to work, according to the logs everything works just fine, but then nothing is installed.  Weird.  Get rid of the periods, everything works fine.
Is this documented [...]

I was walking down Spring Garden Road this afternoon when I overheard a conversation between a seemingly average middle-aged, middle-class lady, and a homeless woman of similar age.  The middle-class lady was in the process of reassuring the homeless lady that her lot in life would surely improve so long as she trusted in Jesus.  [...]

 
Spot the bug.  It’s not that hard.

Vista includes a pretty decent firewall and anti-spyware suite.  What it does not include is antivirus.  Last week I installed AVG Free Edition.  If you are looking for a non-intrusive, fairly clueful antivirus package for personal use it’s a great option.  None of the cruft that comes with so many “security suites” these days.  Just [...]

So here we are, exactly three months since I quit smoking.  After the first couple of days it really hasn’t gotten any easier.  On the plus side, I don’t have to stand out in the freezing freakin’ cold every day.