I was about to apologize for my low volume blogging but apparently I've done that before...
I returned from Seattle without too much drama - unless you consider a ~4 hour delay drama. I would have felt sorry for myself if they hadn't announced that other people on my flight had missed their connecting flights in Los Angeles to Auckland, New Zealand. Ouch.
All the samples from the .NET overviews can be found here, they don't stand so very well on their own but are used for explanations during my classes. On the to do list: reworking my samples into tutorials.
My friend Markus now has a blog in the making too. Good stuff.
Another friend of mine, Sifa, has a friend Giovanni studying computer science at the University of Bologna says they use a language called C--. My reservations are firm though, I've never heard of it, even after looking online at a history of programming languages.
I'm currently engrossed in The Archivist, a book by Martha Cooley. After bantering around in several other things I've settled on this. I'm not sure I agree at all in the sentiments expressed by the characters of the book but I'm only half way through. A gigantic theme in the book is conversion, more specifically religious conversion. She weaves this around the story of T.S. Eliot who, late in life, converted to the Anglican Church. But it's not just protestant conversion, there is a lot of Jewish conversion running through the book as well.
As usual I'm fighting with .NET - I uninstalled the beta (version 2), which I'd been using for the last 8 months, and finally installed the full release. This meant that my VS.NET beta 2 was useless too. So now I have to track down a full copy for next week and the following gigs. The upswing of this is that there are excellent tools (I'd rather use them than the full VS but can't because course materials use VS.NET); two I like most are ASP Matrix and Sharpdevelop.
Well, it's late so I'll head to bed. If you are bored, check out omniglot, it's a resource on writing systems. They have quite a few syllabaries documented and syllabaries are fun.
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