I'm working on a project which requires me to read (with C#) existing SQL Server 2005 'Image' datatype data, making it useful to the end user in an ASP.NET application. The trouble is, the mime type for the data stored in each row is not stored...there isn't an easy way to tell, in advance, if the data I'm pulling out is a pdf, gif, jpg, zip, docx, xml, bmp or some other file type.

Looking closely at the stored data, I noticed that they start with consistent values (headers), and there are only a handful of different headers there.

Warning: Strong Bathroom Humor

I don't know if this is original, but a quick Google search didn't turn it up. If you wrote it, let me know and I'll give you credit:

From email:

"Political Correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end."

Tim Skubick has made a career of watching and listening to politicians at every level, so presumably he's seen some bad actors (in the political arena) over the years. I think that's why his *scorching* review of the new film 'Mama Mia' seemed so funny to me. It really *must* be bad acting if even he's put off by it.

Turning wood chips into ethanol...sounds too good to be true!

http://news.zdnet.com/2422-13748_22-191798.html

Congrats to Leasa Tulgetske, Gerrish Township's new Treasurer!

Actually, all the local (Roscommon County) primary results can be found here.

Earlier this week, I started receiving emails (apparently) from the folks at junkemailfilter.com. Actually, the messages are from unmonitored accounts on their mail servers, but let's not split hairs. The point is, jef is passing rejected email messages 'back' to me...apparently they're seeing (and stopping) spam messages that originated on my own mail server.

While troubleshooting what I *thought* was a problem with my Linux DHCP/DNS/File/Gateway server today, I found myself knocked off the Internet. I wrongly assumed something in the Linux box had broken (will I ever learn?) and focused there. It wasn't until I tried shutting down ZoneAlarm on my client (Windows XP Pro) machine that the Internet came back. Very weird, since ZoneAlarm didn't seem to update or anything prior to the problem.

After watching them for months, I bought an Asus 8GB eeePC from amazon.com. I want it for two main reasons:

I've been building up for a blog-rant over this issue for weeks...

"Windows recently downloaded and installed an important security update to help protect your computer. This update required an automatic restart of your computer."

That's the message you get when you leave your Windows machine sitting overnight, when Windows has downloaded something _really_ important, shut itself down, and wiped out all the work you had in progress. VERY annoying.