So, I’ve been trying to run down a problem with a web app I’m working on since about 2 p.m. today. Since then I’ve probably put about five hours into finding the “problem.”
This particular app stores its data in an XML database. I thought that the app wasn’t saving part of the data, because every time I updated the data on my local copy and checked the XML file, the file didn’t reflect the changes I’d made.
I just discovered the problem. Although I was testing the app locally, I was checking the XML data from the development VPS at the datacenter. Kind of hard for my local copy to update the database at the datacenter.
I think this means it’s time for a break …
So, apparently this is really old, but my brother just shared this with me tonight. I’m pretty much speechless.
Taken on Holy Trinity Sunday (May 18, 2008) at Cross of Christ Lutheran Church, Chattanooga, TN
This is one of the first shots I’ve taken at night since I applied the Canon firmware hack to my camera. The exposure time was 64 seconds at f/3.2. I took the shot at approximately 11:30 p.m.
The TennBridge is one of my favorite spots to shoot. It’s a double-tracked vertical lift railroad bridge, and one of the longest of its type in the US. There is a lot of railroad traffic over the bridge … four separate trains crossed tonight while I was out there, and I was only out for a little over an hour.
If you look closely, just this side of the lift part of the span, you’ll see that one pier isn’t quite like the others … it’s older, white, and round. This is a remnant of the original bridge; the movable part of the span rotated on that pier.
I love night shots, and this one is a great one …
So, I’m now addicated to Flickr. I’ve started uploading some of my better shots, and in the last 24 hours have discovered groups and have started looking at shots other folks have taken.
I just found this image of burley tobacco curing in Haywood County. I know it’s not the same thing, but it reminds me of the wonderful smell of tobacco curing in the old gas-fired barns back home when I was growing up. Not the more modern bulk barns, but the ubiquitous tobacco barns that at least used to dot central North Carolina. Seems like every time I go back home there are less of them around … and it’s been years since I’ve smelled that wonderful smell.
How I miss that smell …
By far the story that amused me the most in today’s Times-Free Press is that State Rep. Joe McCord has admitted that he and other folks have been smoking in his state office in Nashville. Why is this so amusing to me? Well, because Mr. McCord voted for the 2006 bill that banned smoking in Tennessee government offices.
Oops.
Smoked out: McCord admits violating state law (linking to knoxnews.com because for some reason I can’t find the story on timesfreepress.com)
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