So I finally got around to moving the blog from a local test server to the live domain.  I had originally had the domain pointed at my hosting package at 1and1 however after numerous problems with the service and with customer support I decided on changing hosting companies and just hadn't gotten around to updating the name servers.  Well as both my chitlens are sick and watching a movie I decided this would be a good time to do that.  After some issues with the FTP connection dropping some files I am live.

I haven't gotten around to fully customizing this theme yet either, hence the example page still up in the header, maybe I will do that now as I still have time. 

So me and the mrs have decided on a new Business and my "fun" development has been put on hold and I am now developing the site and application for the business.

 I did manage to learn about asp.net 3.5 entity data sources yesterday, that was pretty cool.  I was thinking that maybe I could have used blogengine.net for the business site as I think i want to have a blog but i was unable to find an extension for what I wanted and in the limited time I have to get this up and running I didn't want to learn the ins and out of the blogengine. So maybe next time. 

So I have now allowed the created of a new league and a new franchise.

Since I am doing this with XML and not a database I am trying to remove all the backend of the xml creation and updating to specific classes for it that way they in turn could be updated to handle with a database if I am finding that XML is not working for me. As for tutorials, I have the blogengine.net source on my machine and that is proving to provide me so far with all the XML related examples I could ask for.

So My son Ricky has Eosinaphilic Esophogitus, an eating disorder, but not in the way that most people think.  He can't eat food. Well that's not entirely true, he can't eat a lot of foods, in fact most foods. Right now he is eating Soy and Buffalo. He has a scope tomorrow and I hate these.

I will in the future explain more about his disease and the amazing person that he is. 

So while I did get the red rings they went away as quickly as they came. Had some friends over last night for some good food, good beer and good times. 

I tried Sierra Nevada Pale Ale and Otter Creek Copper Ale. They Sierra Nevada was a bit bitter for my normal tastes however I did enjoy it. It had some fruity undertones to it. The bitter was not a true bite though. It was a nice bitter. The Otter Creek was more my style, it had a caramel taste to it and much less of a bite. The two of them together were a perfect match.

So we played some rock band 2 and had a great time. I finished a couple songs on expert and survived some others.The funniest moment of the night came while playing living on a prayer on Expert, playing the Bass and that bass line just was rough and we get to the final chorus and I had died once already. Then our singer (my wife) gets the giggles and fails out of the song. With me struggling to keep up, our guitarist and Drummer were left to carry the load and the band failed out, ON THE LAST NOTE. 96% complete and we had to do it all again.

So as I have said I am developing a stat tracking site and I think I am going to undo what I have done and convert to using XML instead of using a database. I want to do this for a couple of reasons, 1. My host allows me 1 free database. I can add more but at a cost and since this is just a hobby I can't justify the expense. 2. I need to learn how to use XML and .net and I am more of a project driven guy then a learn through abstraction. So I will update here with any good tutorials and lessons I learned.

Not really sure what the goal is here. I have three sites that I want to write right now, 1. A golf score tracker, 2. A football simulation game and 3. A video game league stat tracker site.  I can not remember where I heard it from but I have heard that "If you want to help your success with whatever you do, tell someone about it". So I am telling all about it. Well all who read this so maybe my wife, Thanks Dear!!

About 2 years ago I had a blog and was doing good in updating once or twice a week and then I had to switch hosting packages losing php and the only blog they offered was php based so I gave up on it. Now I am back and I think I want to document the development of one or more of the aforementioned sites along with other thoughts.

We just got hit with a snow storm yesterday and you would have thought it was a blizzard of biblical proportions with the news coverage that was going on with it. Sure it was a bad storm but I don't think 10" is 24 hour news worthy(TTWS)