6 weeks 20 pounds

by | Jul 17, 2010 | Blog, Miscellaneous

This is a chart of my weight loss that I started June 8th.
This coming Tuesday the 20th will mark 6 weeks and a drop of 20 pounds.
The small blue and white diamonds are the actual weight readings.  The red line is the trend line.

I haven’t done any exercise, I took information from The Hacker’s Diet and kinda took an extreme approach to eating less calories than I burn.
I am going to start doing the exercise program laid out in the Hacker’s Diet which is actually meant for getting fit not losing weight.

The first thing I did was cut out all soda, period.  No diet soda or anything.  I have only drank water with the Crystal Light flavoring packets (they are only 5 calories).
When I did eat I  just ate in small quantities and avoided obviously high calorie things like Krispy Kreme doughnuts and boxes and boxes of candy like I normally would eat.
For the first 2 or 3 weeks my daily calorie intake was roughly 600 calories.
Now, don’t start saying “that’s not healthy, you are starving yourself….” I’ve heard it all and ignored it all.
I was keenly aware of what my body was telling me and was watching out for adverse affects.I’m no doctor but the only adverse affect I noticed was constant hunger all day long, which is kinda annoying but livable.
Over the past 2 to 3 weeks I’ve slowing increased my calories to a whopping 900 to 1000.
Beginning later next week I’ll be slowly increasing up to roughly 2000 or whatever works best to maintain my weight.

Not everyone can do an extreme diet like this but it certainly worked for me, now for the hard part of maintaining this weight.

  • Taken: 17 July, 2010

Neat sunset

by | Jul 16, 2010 | Mobile Photos

Back Camera

  • Camera: iPhone
  • Taken: 16 July, 2010
  • Aperture: ƒ/2.4
  • Focal length: 3.85mm
  • ISO: 80
  • Shutter speed: 1/120s
  • Title: Back Camera

Sharepoint runtime error: “The browser or gateway element with ID ‘SKTDevicesSamSung’ cannot be found”

by | Jul 15, 2010 | Blog, Microsoft Windows

Sharepoint started erroring out and wouldn’t load today.  I had made a couple of changes to the server so I wasn’t sure which one had caused the problem.

After turning off custom errors so I could see the details, the error was: “Error: The browser or gateway element with ID ‘SKTDevicesSamSung’ cannot be found”

Right away I knew what did it but not sure why.  I was playing with interpreting the user agent strings that various browsers send to your server when they make requests.
I don’t really need to know what browser, version and OS is hitting our intranet but it was fun figuring out how to do it.  Well I had run the aspnet_registerbrowsers.exe -i command which loads info from .browser files to help with identifying web browsers.  There’s a bug that causes sharepoint to choke on the SKTDevicesSamSung element of the compat.browser xml file.

To fix it find these files (I had 2 because of 64bit Server 2008).
They were in my folders below:
c:\inetpub\wwwroot\wss\virtualdirectories\80\App_browsers\compat.browser
c:\inetpub\wwwroot\wss\virtualdirectories\16212\App_browsers\compat.browser

Following instructions from Microsoft had me delete the following lines from the compat.browser files:

<browser id=”InfrawareSamSung” parentID=”SKTDevicesSamSung”>
<browser id=”InfrawareLG” parentID=”SKTDevicesLG”>
<browser id=”InfrawareSKY” parentID=”SKTDevicesSKTT”>
<browser id=”InfrawareMotorola” parentID=”SKTDevicesMotorola”>

Remove these lines from the opening tag <browser…> including the line with </browser>.

After removing these lines I re-ran the aspnet_registerbrowsers.exe -i command (not sure if that’s necessary or not).
That fixed the issue.

Mmmmm

by | Jul 14, 2010 | Mobile Photos

Back Camera

  • Camera: iPhone
  • Taken: 14 July, 2010
  • Aperture: ƒ/2.4
  • Focal length: 3.85mm
  • ISO: 80
  • Shutter speed: 1/181s
  • Title: Back Camera