I was reading a story on Reuters today, and they cited a letter written by Mark DeMoss. The letter was in support of Mitt Romney and is directed to Christian and Evangelical leaders. It is very well written and lays out a strong case for supporting Mitt Romney. The main reasoning is that Christians (and everyone for that matter) ought to vote for candidates whose values most closely align with their own–instead of voting for or against someone based on affiliations with particular organizations, be them churches, businesses, etc. Of course, such associations can sometimes by indicative of the values a person holds, but Demoss argues that mere association should not be the primary reason for supporting or rejecting a particular candidate. He urges Christians to remember that a vote for Romney would not be a vote for Mormonism, a Mormon, Mormon doctrine, or the Mormon church. Rather, it would be a vote for this Mormon, or better put, one man who shares our values who happens to be a Mormon.
Here is the article in PDF.
This morning, I tried to start up Visual Studio, and I got the following message in a dialog box:
The application cannot start
This KB article (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306905) gives 7 possible causes, listed by likelihood. I tried the fix for Mxsml3.dll, but it didn’t solve the problem.
Here’s a little context. Last Friday, I was trying to install Team Server (build) on my desktop, but apparently it’s not compatible with Vista. So this morning, when Visual Studio didn’t start, I figured it was because something got messed up during the Team Server (build) installation. So, here’s the fix:
I put in my Visual Studio installation DVD and chose the Repair/Re-install option. Every few minutes, I tried to run Visual Studio–usually that’s a no no–and after about 4 minutes into the repair script, the error message went away and Visual Studio started up just fine. I then decided to gamble and cancel the repair/re-install, betting that the installer wouldn’t really rollback the broken DLL. I was correct.
This saved me a lot of time, since un-installing/re-installing Visual Studio usually takes many hours to complete.