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    <name>Chris Ballance</name>
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  <subtitle>Where would you like to go, Toady?</subtitle>
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    <title>East-bound and Down – A whirlwind trip across the USA</title>
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    <published>2010-07-22T02:18:00-04:00</published>
    <updated>2010-07-25T10:02:50.7342191-04:00</updated>
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      <name>Chris Ballance</name>
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        <p>
Last month, I had the unique experience of driving across the USA from the Three corners
of Arizona, California and Mexico to my home town of Greensboro, NC. There were a
few interesting stops along the way, but for the most part, it was pedal down, eyes
to the East.
</p>
        <img style="display: inline; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px" title="Moving truck on Interstate 40" alt="Moving truck on Interstate 40" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4100/4769895065_87a5a2a499.jpg" width="500" />
        <p>
Some part of I-40 in the Midwest.  It all starts to look alike after a while.
</p>
        <p>
At an average cruising speed of 520mph, trip out to the Arizona desert was considerably
faster than the trip back at 70mph. 
</p>
        <img title="Sunrise at the GSO airport" alt="Sunrise at the GSO airport" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4134/4749659718_252f8fe12c.jpg" />
        <p>
Ready for departure from GSO on the way to ATL then PHX
</p>
        <p>
After a quick connection in Atlanta, we were off to Arizona. Flying high with in-flight
WiFi. 
</p>
        <img style="display: inline; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px" title="In flight WiFi" border="0" alt="In flight WiFi" src="http://blog.chrisballance.com/content/binary/InFlightWiFi.jpg" width="200" />
        <p>
          <span>Photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/atmasphere/3725055048/">atmasphere</a></span>
        </p>
        <p>
Once the rental car was picked up and under way, we stopped for the most delicious
fast food burrito I've ever experienced at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Pollo_Loco">Pollo
Loco</a>.  If you’re ever on the west coast and hunger strikes, this is the place
to go.
</p>
        <img style="display: inline; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px" title="Pollo Loco" alt="Pollo Loco" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4093/4745178848_b079723746_m.jpg" />
        <p>
          <a href="http://elpolloloco.com" target="_blank">El Pollo Loco</a>, Yummay!
</p>
        <p>
Halfway to my Brother’s house, we spotted the <a href="http://www.yelp.com/biz/best-western-space-age-lodge-gila-bend">Space
Age Lodge</a> in a little town called <a href="http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&amp;cp=32.94725641608238~-112.71722473204136&amp;lvl=13&amp;sty=h&amp;where1=Gila%20Bend%2C%20AZ">Gila
Bend, AZ</a></p>
        <img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="Space Age Lodge" border="0" alt="Space Age Lodge" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4120/4749662036_b611430654.jpg" width="300" height="400" /> <img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title=" Ballance Road Trip 2010 - Yuma, Arizona to Greensboro, North Carolina 106" border="0" alt="Space Age Lodge" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4094/4749071363_2107f3732c.jpg" width="500" /><p>
Space Age Lodge, Gila Bend, AZ
</p><p>
So we drove the rental to <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0381849/">Yuma, AZ</a> to
pack up my Brother’s things and start the journey back to this side of the country. 
It’s for sale if anyone is interested in a new home in the desert. Flagstaff was more
popular than we had imagined and almost every hotel was booked up for the night by
the time we arrived. I've never slept in an ash tray before, but this place was close
to it.
</p><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="Moving Truck and Xterra in Flagstaff, AZ" border="0" alt="Moving Truck and Xterra in Flagstaff, AZ" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4140/4749041039_e3e5e70eaa.jpg" width="450" height="300" />  <img title="Sunset" alt="Sunset" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4122/4769910729_a586a38bb1.jpg" width="400" height="300" /><p>
Consider it a best practice to book a <a href="http://kayak.com">reservation</a> ahead
of time when visiting the only major town near the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Canyon">Grand
Canyon</a>.
</p><p>
Once loaded up we piled into the moving truck and set course for <a href="http://www.flagstaff.com/">Flagstaff,
AZ</a>.  It was quite late, and unexpectedly cold, when we arrived very early
in the morning on Sunday.  When the sun rose, we were greeted to one of the coolest
looking towns I’ve seen.  Flagstaff reminded me a bit of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulder,_Colorado">Boulder,
CO</a> with fewer <a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dirty+hippie">dirty
hippies</a>.
</p><p>
Sunday morning, we got on the road about 9am and all piled into the Xterra to go visit
the <a href="http://www.nps.gov/grca/index.htm">Grand Canyon</a>.  It was the
first time there for each of us, and the experience of being there can’t be put into
words.  Just go there, you won’t regret it.
</p><img title="Grand Canyon" alt="Grand Canyon" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4141/4769888631_7d57b0d547.jpg" width="400" height="300" />  <img title="Group Shot at the Canyon" alt="Group shot at the Canyon" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4082/4749157071_a2b8c4e138.jpg" width="450" height="300" /><p>
Chris at the North Rim of the Grand Canyon
</p><p>
Two hours is not nearly enough time to spend at such a picturesque location, but that
is all the time we could stay and still be able to get back to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greensboro,_North_Carolina">Greensboro</a> by
Tuesday.  We turned around and drove back to Flagstaff to pick up our gigantic
moving truck.
</p><p>
Further west in Arizona, there’s this gigantic hole in the ground.  We paid our
$15 and explored where this big rock had fallen out of the sky.
</p><img title="Crater" alt="Crater" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4143/4769787073_2a9bc8be74.jpg" width="400" height="300" /> <img title="Crater" alt="Crater" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4137/4749814048_148008a093.jpg" width="450" height="300" /><p>
Chris and Jimmy at the Crater
</p><p>
For the next thousand miles or more, there wasn’t much to speak of, except for lots
of this.
</p><p><img title="driving" alt="driving" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4075/4740607136_623fd33d86_m.jpg" width="240" /> <img title="Driving downhill" alt="Driving downhill" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4139/4770555498_0fdb05f3c3_m.jpg" height="240" /> <img title="Fueling up the moving truck" alt="Fueling up the moving truck" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4120/4749794236_4046351b39_m.jpg" height="240" /> <img title="driving" alt="driving" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4075/4769860317_c798117bfb_m.jpg" width="240" /></p><p>
 
</p><p>
In the meantime we crossed some <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_River">Big
River</a>. 
</p><img title="Crossing the Mississippi" alt="Crossing the Mississippi" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4136/4749232223_a254457fff.jpg" width="333" height="333" />  <img title="Pyramid in Memphis" alt="Pyramid in Memphis" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4099/4749144711_ec5aa17691.jpg" width="500" /><p>
 
</p><p>
 
</p><p>
By Tennessee, save for this one, we were all were out of new ideas for snacks from
the Convenience Stores, but the variety of goods was at an all-time high.
</p><img title="Block of Cheese and a Milk" alt="Block of Cheese and a Milk" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4080/4770645624_89e4cbe102.jpg" width="338" height="338" />  <img title="Guns &quot; Liquor" alt="Guns &quot; Liquor" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4094/4750604803_3022d7d66a.jpg" width="450" height="338" /><p>
We pulled into the driveway at just a few minutes before midnight on Tuesday. 
All that in just under 91 hours in planes, no trains, and several automobiles.
</p><p>
View the rest of the pictures from my trip <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ballance/sets/72157624393175656/show/">here</a> on
Flickr.
</p><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4114/4817887757_a17d2b0bdb.jpg" alt="Yuma to Greensboro" title="Yuma to Greensboro" width="500px" /><img width="0" height="0" src="http://blog.chrisballance.com/aggbug.ashx?id=12cf4ee4-8785-49da-89be-89b82044332e" /></div>
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  <entry>
    <title>Where are my SQL Triggers hiding?</title>
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    <published>2010-07-21T13:21:25.692-04:00</published>
    <updated>2010-07-22T00:02:56.6937853-04:00</updated>
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      <name>Chris Ballance</name>
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      <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">When you open a SQL Server database that
has Triggers, it is not at all obvious how you might find them and enumerate their
contents. The following SQL code will show you all the triggers in your database including
which table they are associated with. <pre class="csharpcode"><span class="kwrd">SELECT</span> name <span class="kwrd">AS</span><span class="str">'Trigger
Name'</span>, OBJECT_NAME(parent_obj) <span class="kwrd">AS</span><span class="str">'Table'</span><span class="kwrd">FROM</span> sysobjects <span class="kwrd">WHERE</span> xtype
= <span class="str">'TR'</span></pre><p>
The results will be in this format.
</p><img title="Trigger result" alt="Trigger result" src="http://blog.chrisballance.com/content/binary/TriggersResult.png" /><br /><br /><p>
 
</p><p>
From here, you can enumerate their contents like this
</p><pre class="csharpcode">sp_helptext TriggerName</pre><p>
You can also view all the triggers associated with a particular table with this code.
</p><pre class="csharpcode">sp_helptrigger TableName</pre><img width="0" height="0" src="http://blog.chrisballance.com/aggbug.ashx?id=bc8da7ba-22fd-49ec-a746-1db4780dd3ba" /></div>
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  <entry>
    <title>Diplomatic rebuke at its finest</title>
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    <published>2010-05-19T23:37:51.6142294-04:00</published>
    <updated>2010-05-19T23:55:29.8111126-04:00</updated>
    <author>
      <name>Chris Ballance</name>
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        <p>
When the first stone is cast from a glass house, simply return the favor. A great
example of effective "no reply in necessary," diplomacy
</p>
        <br />
        <a href="http://blog.chrisballance.com/content/binary/letter-azcc-villaraigosa.pdf.pdf">Letter
from Arizona to the City of Los Angeles (PDF)(76.58 KB)</a>
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  <entry>
    <title>The Finiteness of Life - lest we forget</title>
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    <published>2010-05-12T00:54:31.793-04:00</published>
    <updated>2010-07-22T00:04:14.8510357-04:00</updated>
    <category term="General" label="General" scheme="http://blog.chrisballance.com/CategoryView,category,General.aspx" />
    <category term="Personal" label="Personal" scheme="http://blog.chrisballance.com/CategoryView,category,Personal.aspx" />
    <author>
      <name>Chris Ballance</name>
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            <img border="0" alt="Sunset over a country road" src="http://blog.chrisballance.com/content/binary/sunsetTambakoTheJaguar.jpg" />
            <br />
Photo by:<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tambako/">Tambako</a></div>
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              <p>
"Death is always on the way, but the fact that you don’t know when it will arrive
seems to take away from the finiteness of life. It’s that terrible precision that
we hate so much. But because we don’t know, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible
well. Yet everything happens a certain number of times, and a very small number, really.
How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some
afternoon that’s so deeply a part of your being that you can’t even conceive of your
life without it? Perhaps four or five times more. Perhaps not even. How many more
times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless."
</p>
              <p>
– Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky
</p>
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  <entry>
    <title>C# enumerating local drives and free space - a quick hack</title>
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    <published>2010-04-16T02:06:22.069-04:00</published>
    <updated>2010-07-21T23:44:05.1480517-04:00</updated>
    <category term="Programming" label="Programming" scheme="http://blog.chrisballance.com/CategoryView,category,Programming.aspx" />
    <author>
      <name>Chris Ballance</name>
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          <pre>
            <span class="lnum"> 1: </span>
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            <span class="lnum"> 2: </span>
            <span class="kwrd">using</span> System;</pre>
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            <span class="lnum"> 3: </span>
            <span class="kwrd">using</span> System.IO;</pre>
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            <span class="lnum"> 4: </span>
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          <pre>
            <span class="lnum"> 5: </span>
            <span class="kwrd">namespace</span> EnumerateDrives</pre>
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            <span class="kwrd">class</span> Program</pre>
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            <span class="kwrd">static</span>
            <span class="kwrd">void</span> Main(<span class="kwrd">string</span>[]
args)</pre>
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            <span class="lnum"> 10: </span> {</pre>
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            <span class="lnum"> 11: </span> var drives = DriveInfo.GetDrives();</pre>
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            <span class="kwrd">catch</span>(Exception ex)</pre>
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            <span class="lnum"> 23: </span> Console.WriteLine(ex.Message);</pre>
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            <span class="lnum"> 26: </span> Console.ReadKey();</pre>
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  <entry>
    <title>Birds-Eye View for the win!</title>
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    <published>2010-01-19T19:35:06.849-05:00</published>
    <updated>2010-07-21T23:45:51.1494085-04:00</updated>
    <category term="humor" label="humor" scheme="http://blog.chrisballance.com/CategoryView,category,humor.aspx" />
    <category term="Personal" label="Personal" scheme="http://blog.chrisballance.com/CategoryView,category,Personal.aspx" />
    <author>
      <name>Chris Ballance</name>
    </author>
    <content type="xhtml">
      <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
        <img border="0" src="http://blog.chrisballance.com/content/binary/culDuSacBingMaps.jpg" width="870px" alt="Quiet Cul-du-sac?  Thanks Bing Maps" />
        <p>
Quiet Cul-du-sac? ... Thanks Bing Maps!
</p>
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  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Sharepoint - Set list permissions to read for everyone, only site Collection Administrators may write.</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.chrisballance.com/2010/01/06/SharepointSetListPermissionsToReadForEveryoneOnlySiteCollectionAdministratorsMayWrite.aspx" />
    <id>http://blog.chrisballance.com/PermaLink,guid,8e9b4408-adbc-4100-890d-1478d41691ec.aspx</id>
    <published>2010-01-06T01:22:46.4869873-05:00</published>
    <updated>2010-01-06T01:24:59.6639761-05:00</updated>
    <author>
      <name>Chris Ballance</name>
    </author>
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        <pre>
private static void SetListPermissions(SPList list, SPWeb web)
{
    try
    {
        list.BreakRoleInheritance(false);

        SPRoleDefinition readerRole = web.RoleDefinitions.GetByType(SPRoleType.Reader);

        SPUser allUser = web.AllUsers["NT Authority\\Authenticated Users"];

        SPRoleAssignment spRoleAssignment = new SPRoleAssignment(allUser);
        spRoleAssignment.RoleDefinitionBindings.Add(readerRole);

        list.RoleAssignments.Add(spRoleAssignment);
        list.Update();
    }

    catch (Exception ex)
    {
        //Log Exception
        throw;
    }
}
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  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Dawn of the Emancipation of Mobile Data</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.chrisballance.com/2010/01/06/DawnOfTheEmancipationOfMobileData.aspx" />
    <id>http://blog.chrisballance.com/PermaLink,guid,934445af-68e5-430f-b1e2-fd61d05a73d7.aspx</id>
    <published>2010-01-06T00:28:31.373-05:00</published>
    <updated>2010-07-21T23:52:51.3891625-04:00</updated>
    <category term="economics" label="economics" scheme="http://blog.chrisballance.com/CategoryView,category,economics.aspx" />
    <category term="General" label="General" scheme="http://blog.chrisballance.com/CategoryView,category,General.aspx" />
    <category term="Personal" label="Personal" scheme="http://blog.chrisballance.com/CategoryView,category,Personal.aspx" />
    <author>
      <name>Chris Ballance</name>
    </author>
    <content type="xhtml">
      <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
        <img style="margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px; display: inline" alt="Mobile phone in jail" align="left" src="http://blog.chrisballance.com/content/binary/iPhoneInJail.jpg" width="400" />
        <p>
Google announced a new mobile phone today. We have seen a number of announcements
for ground-breaking, sexy new mobile devices in recent history
</p>
        <ul>
          <li>
AT&amp;T/Apple’s <b>iPhone</b></li>
          <li>
Palm/Sprint’s <b>Palm Pre</b></li>
          <li>
Verizon/Motorola’s <b>Droid</b></li>
        </ul>
        <p>
Google’s new <a href="http://www.google.com/phone">Nexus One</a> is available exclusively
from … wait, it isn’t available exclusively to any mobile phone company or locked
to any network. As subtle as this can seem on the surface, it changes the game in
a profound way. Customers have been oppressed by artificial limitations placed on
their hardware- well, the hardware that they kinda own- for far too long, and this
simply needs to stop. It is inherently evil for any company to cripple or severely
limits hardware they sell for the sole purpose of competitive advantage and to hold
their customers captive. Apple learned this lesson many years ago when it lost market
share to the PC. The cell phone companies must adapt or die.
</p>
        <p>
Personally, I have had dozens of phones on every mobile network under the sun, and
don’t recall many, if any, particularly good experiences with any of the companies
I did business with. At the end of the standard two year contract period, I regularly
jumped ship even if I was reasonably happy with my current provider. There was no
reason to stay, their only goal was to hook you and forget about you for two years.
</p>
        <p>
We’re reaching a point where it doesn’t really matter who carries your bits from your
mobile device to whatever destination you send them to. They’re just bits, 1’s and
0’s whether they represent and email, a photo, a text message, a tweet, or a voice
call. So long as they get where they’re going reliably, the pipe they flow across
is completely irrelevant. I still use SMS to communicate with my low-tech friends,
but have to pay extra for a communication that would be free via email, Twitter, Facebook,
et al. Give me a pipe to the Interwebs and get out of my way!
</p>
        <p>
The concept of buying a phone and being able to use it on any network its hardware
will allow for is necessary step to repair the reviled mobile phone industry in the
US today. It is also time to stop arguing VHS vs. Beta and standardize on GSM like
the rest of the world already has done. Concentrate on what customers really care
about: a fast network, a reliable network, and their choice of any phone they choose
to buy.
</p>
        <p>
With this crucial shift today, the future is bright for the customer to take back
what is rightfully theirs – <b>choice</b>.
</p>
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    <title>Delivering</title>
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      <name>Chris Ballance</name>
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