Absolute BS

In an effort to become more informed on this year’s election, I decided to actually read though all of the propositions that are up for vote in the November election. I encourage you to read the text yourself, but if you don’t want to wade through it all you can just read my short version. Or my really short version:

Brian Samson’s Voting Recomendations:
Prop 100 - Yes
Prop 101 - Yes
Prop 102 - No
Prop 103 - No
Prop 104 - Yes
Prop 105 - No
Prop 106 - No
Prop 107 - No

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Kurt Warner, despite his superbowl ring, is the worst starting quarterback in the NFL today. There, I said it.
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Our first two weeks of Fox Sports Fantasy Football have come and gone, and Fox Sports is still the worst FF hosting I’ve ever played on. I log in today to receive the following message:

Alert

* Making “Roster Changes” has been temporarily disabled. We are working to get this corrected as soon as possible. Please try again later. Thank you.

This is ridiculous. We couldn’t add anyone to our rosters the first week (we drafted offline on Wednesday and NFL started Thursday), and then when we finally could pick up players before week two, the players list wasn’t sortable by anything but name. Wow, good work guys.

In summary, Fox sports continues their legacy of awful sports coverage that began with “The Best Damn Sports Show Period,” continued on to sideline moron Tony Siragusa and culminated in an online fantasy league that disables roster changes. Oh well, at least I beat Kicker last week.

I ran into a problem today developing a web app that uses XML/XSLT for the display. This particular widget is designed to run as a custom control and it compiles to a .dll, so I had to embed my XSL files. This wasn’t a problem until I tried to clean up the XSLs by dividing them into smaller pieces and using xsl:include from between them.

The problem turned out to have a quick solution that took about an hour. Write a Custom XmlResolver. Now the one on the Microsoft Website is pretty extensive if you want to learn all about it. But if you want to just drop a class file in your project you can use mine. It resolves everything relative to the namespace that you put it in, so be sure to change that to something appropriate, espeically if you have your default namespace set in Visual Studio.

Note this is quick and dirty and doesn’t do anything with credentials, which I figure is OK since you probably have permission to get to your embedded resources.

Click below to see the full code:
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MB and I went hiking in Apache-Sitegreaves National Forest over Labor day weekend. It was an awesome trip. You can check out my picture dump for the weekend, or take a look at the annotated trip over at Trimble Outdoors.

Or click the “Read more” link below to view some highlights.