November 2006 Archives
If you have ever dropped a set of flash cards on the floor and spent much-needed study time putting them back in approximate order, you'll appreciate this tip. Just draw a diagonal line along one side and use that as a cue to rearrange them next time.
Anyone have advice how to get rid of a raccoon?
Every night he knocks over my trash can. I run outside, swinging a stick and yelling at him. He takes a cool five or ten seconds to size me up and then saunters away, leaving me to experience my son's dirty diapers all over again. We put all our food scraps in the garbage disposal and worm composter, so I don't know what he's interested in getting out of our trash can.
He's about as big as my son, and probably about as smart, too. I don't really want to kill either of them, so poison and traps are out.
Your thoughts would be appreciated.
Update 3/25/2007: Thanks for all the suggestions. I screwed a hook into the fence, looped a bungee cord through the can handle, and hooked the cord onto the fence hook. There is about an inch of slack in the cord, so pushing over the can just makes it spring back into place. I've heard the raccoon rambling around the trash can, but he hasn't knocked it over since.
Disable your sarcasm detectors; none follows.
mymsi.wxs(16) : error CNDL0014 : The File/@Id attribute's value, 'foo-bar', is not a legal identifier. Identifier's may contain ASCII characters A-Z, a-z, digits, underscores (_), or periods (.). Every identifier must begin with either a letter or an underscore.
I don't know whether this is the Microsoft MSI XML compiler or the open-source tool Wix. But whoever is responsible for it, you get the Best Error Message of 2006 Award. This message is perfect: it tells you exactly which part of the file was wrong, and the rule you need to follow to fix it. If every error message were this informative, we wouldn't need documentation.
