My Sexy Shrimp decided eating Christmas worms is far nicer than leftover pieces os mysis. I found the little bugger eating on the foot of the Christmas worm, and something underneath that foot kept coming out - almost like a little claw - and tried to chase the Sexy Shrimp away. Fortunately when the Sexy Shrimp decided to jump on the Christmas worm, it retracted.

Ribbon eel ate for first time since I got him. He did not take at anything other than LM prawn. Only a small piece worked - bigger pieces were rejected. He ate about 3 pieces in total.

For the first time since I got my Ribbon Eel about 2 months ago, he ate a big piece of prawn... It took a couple of minutes of persuasion, but I knew he was hungry in the way he poked the lance fish I tried to feed him with initially.

I just hope he continues to eat...

Whilst implementing a .NET application for one of my clients, I recently ran into a problem where a long running task would just suddenly stop working after about 30 minutes. No error, no exception - nothing. I had been troubleshooting this for 3 days now, and that is a very long time for someone with my experience (if I may say so myself). The difficulty with this problem is that there are no - and I mean absolutely NO errors. The only thing I could gather is that the long running task stops because the IIS worker process dies. I even added detailed trace statements - none of which helped. The output stopped dead at one my of audit entries:

Workflow.Audit.AddAuditEntry(new XXXAudit.XXXAuditEntry(this,
   "Some message"));

A couple of minutes ago I decided to put trace statements in the getters I am using here:

Whilst working on my Windows XP SP2 machine, this kept on popping up.

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(Update: For those who did not get it, \$BitMap is a MFT system file - for Windows to suggest I have to save it elsewhere is just downright hilarious - that would cause even more problems! They should have presented a different popup message for system files.)