Update: I found a situation in which it seems you must deploy your supporting code for unit tests and explicitly deploy external configuration files.  Read below for more information.

It's pretty simple to create external configuration files in .NET 2.0 and later.  There are some issues with this capacity however:

This is entitled "FROM A READER, an amusing parody."  Never mind the asinine and juvenile names for each of the "Botchmen" (I'm totally cool with asinine and juvenile things, I still think "Beavis and Butthead" is one of the funniest shows ever).  But the idea that it's the Obama Administration that's botched the economy, lo these 50 days into their reign, and not the previous eight-plus years of stupidity, cronyism, and mismanagement (and I don't absolve the Clinton Administration or Democrats from their own involvement), no

I was working on some ways of setting up custom data in .NET configuration files and came across these helpful posts from Eric Eicke.

Contrary to the conventional wisdom, I think Windows Vista is pretty good. I've had very little trouble with it compared to the trouble I had with, say, Windows XP at this point in its lifecycle. Graphically I think it's very slick looking also. The main complaint that I had with it was that the desktop icons were absurdly large, making the desktop feel very crowded even on my super-groovy 24" 1920x1200 monitor.

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So have you seen this guy Santelli's rant about the mortgage relief program?  Good stuff!  I find it heartening that in these dark times the salt of the earth, those option traders on the floor of the CBOE, can stand up for everyman like that.

But first, let consider why the issue of underwater mortgages is something that needs to be handled:

I thought, hey, living here in the freakin' Heart Of America™, I should have a few opportunities to go catch a Sprint Cup NASCAR race (full disclosure: I started watching NASCAR a couple of years ago when I couldn't find anything else to watch in HD on my HDTV; all of a sudden, NASCAR racing made a lot more sense and was a lot more exciting!). So I know Daytona's coming up next weekend and I figured I could look and see what races were scheduled for this season.

So I'm participating in FAWM, which is very cool.  I've got one song down already (good thing, since I really need to have two songs by end of day today to stay on schedule!), but I've run into a weird issue with my recording rig.

Andrew Sullivan comments Matthew Parris's point that the current economic collapse isn't a failure of market economics, it's actually the logical end-point of the credit boom, market economics coming home to roost.

So Jon Gruden got fired today.  I'm both shocked and not surprised, which might sound a little weird, but I'm also happy and sad, so it's fair to say I have mixed feelings about the matter.

Roger Simon asks on Politico:

Would it be OK if I stopped paying my taxes until Barack Obama names me to be his secretary of the treasury? That is a deal I would like to get. That is the deal financial wizard Timothy Geithner got.

 So what was the "deal" that Geithner got?