Category: General News

Be a lemming; download FireFox 3 Today

If you want to join in on the heard of sheep downloading FireFox3 final today, the downloading will commence at 1pm East Coast time. Which if you ask me is an odd time to make something available; and yes I will be one of the sheep downloading.

Hopefully plugin makers will be updating semi-quickly to the new stable release.

0 comments - Posted by Russell Brown at 8:11 AM - Categories: Development | General News

Motorcycle Road Racing Update

This past weekend brough fantasic weather to the Summit Point Motorsports Park in West Virginia. The holiday weekend race was 4 days long with 2 days of track practice and 2 days of racing. Unfortunently for team EmpireGP we showed up a bit too late for the absolutly jammed packed weekend and ended up getting a less than ideal pit spot in the paddock. On the plus side though, our area was much more relaxed.

Testing on Saturday went well but resulted in some so-so lap times maxing out in the upper 1:21's. However the bike was performing well and I wasn't feeling the need to destroy the machine before the weekend really kicked off. With a sold out event I was entered into 5 races: the GTU ,GTO, Unlimted GP (trophy dash), Middeweight GP and middleweight Superbike.

more details and pictures after the jump

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0 comments - Posted by Russell Brown at 7:39 PM - Categories: Motorcycles | Racing | General News

My new family addition (5wk old Boxer)

This past weekend I picked up a 5 week old Boxer puppy from a rescue (Ella). Her mom had stopped feeding the puppies, but she was already doing very well on her own anyway. We already have an almost 2 year old Lhasapoo (Buster) who up until the afternnon of the day when this video was shot, was being extremly snobish and doing his best to ignoring the new pup.

I'm not normally a guy to post pictures of my pets, or even take video... But last night I captured a couple really funny scenes on my pocket camera and thought this one was worth posting. Whats amazing is that the MIC on the camera was actualy on. These two will now play for 15-20 minutes like this all out and not make a SINGLE sound.... This is a welcome change from her hound-esque howl she can get going at night...

 

0 comments - Posted by Russell Brown at 3:22 PM - Categories: General News | Friends / Family

Wow, sorry for the feed dump!

Due to server and software changes my blog paths were no longer the same and I stopped getting aggregated by Adobe Feed/MXNA. I ignored this aside from an email that didn't get me anywhere; until this afternoon. With the new feeds software the feeds list actualy worked and I found out what URL Adobe was looking for my feed at. A quick 301 error inside a cfif tag fixed my problems...

Unfortunetly the result was ALL of my posts showing up in Adobe feeds at the top all at once. For this I apologize, I had figuered it would go off my modified or posted date, not when it read it for the first time...

<cfif url.event EQ "showBlogRss">
    <cfheader statuscode="301" statustext="Moved Permanently">
    <cfheader
          name="Location"
          value="http://www.EmpireGPServices.com/blog/feeds/rss.cfm"
    />
    <cfabort>
</cfif>

1 comments - Posted by Russell Brown at 4:27 PM - Categories: ColdFusion | Debugging | Development | General News

Now Mango Powered

Following in the footsteps and recomendation of Andrew Powell I've started to use Mango Blog (I even stole the title from his blog). Months ago I started having some odd issues with my HostMySite account and MachBlog. It worked fine until they upgraded my server and then all of a sudden nothing using ColdSpring would init correctly. I don't really have a good reason for not trying MachBlog again other than for the reason that I get bored and like to try new things a lot.

But now I'm back blogging and slowly [manually] migrating over old posts, but unfortunetly I've lost almost all my relevent ColdFusion/Flex/AJAX content.

I have run into multiple NULL Pointer errors with Mango Blog so far, and will in the future start to document them but usualy a reload of the page clears the problem right up. The interface is certainly nice and clean and looks more polished than my previous experiences with other CF blog packages; so KUDOS to the developer(s).

2 comments - Posted by Russell Brown at 7:15 AM - Categories: Development | General News | Mango Blog

New Supermoto Bike

Last week I sold my beloved 2004 KTM 625 SMC to another board member on SuperMotoJunkie.com; this is now the 3rd board member to own this bike as that's where I bought it as well... To replace this bike I've purchased a brand new 2006 KTM 560 SMR. Out of the box this bike is not street, but I'm currently in the process of doing the needed mods to make it so. I currently have zero time on this bike, but I can already confirm that this thing kicks some serious ass...

Pictures after the jump

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0 comments - Posted by Russell Brown at 10:27 PM - Categories: Motorcycles | Racing | General News

My New Truck (Ford F250 Supercab XLT)

So a few weeks ago I told a friend to look for a new truck for me. I was looking for a 4 door Ford or Chevy, 1/2 or 3/4 ton truck. I was really hoping for a crew cab, but damn are those expensive.

Last week sometime I got a truck and committed to it. Since then I've been trying to get a bloody picture of the thing. My friend doesn't do email and my mom can't remember to bring a Camera when she goes to drop of some paperwork. Finally my sister who fly's from California is able to spare a few moments of her time and snap a few pictures.So my new truck is a 2002 Ford F250 XLT SD SuperCab (4dr) V8 Triton (5.4L). Its very red and came with 20" rims. They look way nicer than I thought they would. Trucks with big rims either look real nice, or really really bad. I even get the original rims so I can throw them on in the winter... The minus is, this trucks been lowered it appears. I won't really know what this means until I look at it. I should have known, the friend who got it for me likes Harleys :)

Photos After the Jump

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0 comments - Posted by Russell Brown at 11:09 AM - Categories: Cars | General News