Changing spaces
Being "between houses" is odd. We're living in the apartment until Friday, with no phones and no internet access. We're not in the house yet, but the answer phone is, and it's the only home number we have. The house has dialup
Alison Hawke
Hunting
The trouble with having two or more computers is working out exactly where the files you want have been shifted to. And with 66 Gb of potential hiding place, plus about 11 backup CDs, it can be a little hard to find stuff.
In our new house!
The phones aren't connected yet, and the DSL is off at the apartment, so we are wholly without internet access. This will be posted when the dialup starts working. Jed and Jen were our first visitors, apart from the guy changing all the locks. Larry and Sarah are
Going offline
I will be offline for a couple of weeks while we move house.
Java in disguise
Visual Basic .NET is Java in bunny slippers. Class inheritance, threading, garbage collection, reflection, class libraries, reduced variable scope, try/catch blocks, exceptions and events, even something approaching Java's use of layout managers with Anchor and Dock values for window components. The IDE looks like I remember the
Mental Health 'Parity' Bill
Finally, someone has a little bit of sense. Quote from the article in the Washington Post: Bush Plans to Endorse Mental Health 'Parity'
President Bush is close to agreement on legislation forcing employers to expand insurance coverage for psychiatric illnesses, a position urged by mental health advocates but
Sifting through the trash
Poland, the Slovak Republic, Greece, Portugal, Taiwan, Denmark, South Africa, Italy, Argentina, Sweden, the Russian Federation, Pakistan, Singapore, America and the United Kingdom. All countries that have sent spam email to me, according to the email headers. Argentina is the worst offender, and they're usually in Spanish. If
Monday Mission
The PromoGuy Monday Mission 2.16.
1. Ever had a love that you still think of as "the one that got away?" What's the story there?
Nope, snagged him and kept him.
1. What was the last book that you finished reading cover-to-cover?
"Tired of
And so it begins...
There are ten boxes packed by the door. One was packed four years ago in Guildford, and never emptied. The other nine are full of mainly books, plus a few videos and DVD's. The magnetic poetry is off the front door, the shelves have been taken down, and
Search words
This is just too strange. The following Google searches have led to this site:
* seventeenth century garbage disposal
* visual basic football source code game -fantasy
* leicester square garden layout