Sunday, June 30, 2002

OO vs. Reality. A little essay brought about by a discussion on the .NET Web mailing list. Enjoy! [Justin Rudd's Radio Weblog] 11:06:23 PM

Ooooooo....that smell.... Gore: If I run again, I'll 'let it rip' [USA Today : Front Page] Feel sorry for the Secret Service agents that have to run behind him ;-) hehehe...little juvenile humor today... [Justin Rudd's Radio Weblog] LOL! You know, I read three or four articles about that fundraiser and Gore's comments about the 2004 election, but never made the connection. Puey! :) 10:58:36 PM

Moon rock at center of legal battle [CNN.COM] 6:04:51 PM

I've been thinking of getting a rewritable DVD for backup purposes (well, I'm thinking of retiring the old VHS-C camcorder and moving to digital, but that's more research). I've got a CD-RW, but with only 650mb per CD, it's not as flexible as the 4.7GB available on a DVD. Plus, I've got two computers to backup -- both mine and my wife's. [Wrinkled Paper] For the price you'd pay for the drive and a few discs, you could buy a RAID controller and 2 80GB drives. Unless what you're looking for is offsite storage for the backups, it's not economically sensible, IMO. [The .NET Guy] Hmmmm... Good idea. Although offsite storage is a possibility. And after re-reading by blog entry, what I didn't make clear was that the digital camcorder is most likely in the future (probably within the next 12 months -- need more research and budgeting). Since I would need a way to burn "save" the digital media, I was considering the rewritable DVD. Thanks for the input Brad. Sometimes the most obvious answer is easily overlooked. 6:03:33 PM

Safe, Simple Multithreading in Windows Forms. Chris Sells: "It all started innocently enough. I found myself needing to calculate the area of a circle for the first time in .NET. This called, of course, for an accurate representation of pi. System.Math.PI is handy, but since it only provides 20 digits of precision, I was worried about the accuracy of my calculation (I really needed 21 digits to be absolutely comfortable). So, like any programmer worth their salt, I forgot about the problem I was actually trying to solve and I wrote myself a program to calculate pi to any number of digits that I felt like." [sellsbrothers.com: Windows Developer News] Another great article by Chris Sells. A must-read for all Windows Forms developers. Especially fromer VB6 programmers who've never done multi-threaded windows programming before. 12:25:40 AM

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