Ear Wax and The New World Order

Undoubtedly, the very worst thing to come out of the current financial meltdown is the lesson some of the world's leaders are hoping the gullible will learn. Turning facts on their heads, these parasites in the public sector are using these times to push more government intervention into the market.

In an upcoming essay, Kevin Rudd, the Prime Minister of Australia, espouses more of the same nonsense that helped us get into this mess in the first place.

Perhaps it's all the ear wax he's ingested.

Logging Frameworks

There are several logging frameworks available for the .NET development community. One of the more popular ones is Log4Net. Like many things in life, this framework has gotten more popular because of its popularity--kind of like a celebrity being famous for being famous.

One of the framework's problems, however, is its complexity. Looking at the size of the DLL alone will tell you that. (If you write a relatively small application, the logging DLL will be larger than your application!)

Here's a link that really cracked me up. This guy thinks that spending 8 hours to successfully implement and configure Log4Net is amazing. (Amazing in that it only took 8 hours.) No, he isn't joking.

That's ridiculous!

Here's a logging framework that makes sense. I noticed several other postings across the net that referred to The Object Guy's Logging Framework. It may not be as popular as the other framework, but it looks like people who have compared them--at least from what I've read--prefer The Object Guy's Logging Framework. This is an example of what I mean. And here's what the author of the framework thinks.

And check out this review: he says it is the best logger ever.

And it sure won't take 8 hours to figure out. It's more like 8 minutes.

Take the challenge yourself: if you haven't used either framework, spend 15 minutes with each one. Afterwords, decide which one you'd prefer to spend more time with. I'd bet 9 out of 10 people will choose The Object Guy's Logging Framework.

Now It's Daschle's "Honest Mistake"

Obama's pick for secretary of Health and Human Services apparently failed to pay more than $128,000 in taxes.

But after this disclosure, Obama's press secretary, Robert Gibbs, said, "The president has confidence that Senator Daschle is the right person to lead the fight for health care reform."

Sounds familiar, doesn't it?

McCaskill and "Idiots"

At first glance of the article's title, one could be forgiven for thinking Senator McCaskill was referring to her voters when she said, "These people are idiots."

Nope. She didn't mean them.

The "idiots" to whom she was referring are people who are laughing all the way to the bank, as they say.

So, who's the real idiot, Senator McCaskill?

Lower Mortgage Costs!!

Obama is promising lower mortgage costs.

Before you start celebrating, take note of what groups you are in.



First, determine you tax group:

1. You pay taxes
2. You pay little or no taxes

Next, determine your mortgage group:

1. You pay your mortgage
2. You are behind on your mortgage, but current on your cable TV bill

Now the results:

If you are in the b-b group, consider yourself a winner! Your mortgage costs, according to Obama, will be going down--and you won't have to pay any price for it.

For those unfortunate ones in the a-a group, you can consider your mortgage costs as increasing, because your taxes (or your future taxes) will most definitely be going up.

"Living Beyond Our Means"

How I loathe coming across--as I so often do--the phrase: "we have been living beyond our means." The authors, of course, are always referring to our country in general.

It really disgusts me.

Accuracy would require the phrase to be something like: "the unproductive have been living beyond the productive's means."

I'll leave out political labels for now... but you know who you are.

Cramer on Geithner

I found this interesting video of Jim Cramer talking about Timothy Geithner.