A bloke's wife goes missing while diving off the West Australian coast.
He reports the event, searches fruitlessly and spends a terrible night wondering what could have happened to her.
Author: Baldy
HP2133 – First Impressions
My new HP2133 mini laptop was delivered yesterday, and so far I’m a very happy camper. It came with Windows Vista Basic installed, which I’ve kept on for now. I’ve also gone and installed a multi-boot system, and added Ubuntu 8.1 as well as Windows 7 beta as boot options.
Car manufacturers
Seth Godin has an interesting point of view on the bailout of the car manufacturers which I have to agree with. Our world is changing, and the way we do business is changing. I don't think we should be bailing out businesses that cannot keep up with the times. Yes, there will be large scale job losses, and it may impact the world economy in a very bad way.
Phil Haack @ PDC2008
I've just watched Phil Haack's talk on the MVC framework at PDC 2008. I can honestly say that I've learnt more in the 70 minutes watching the talk, than what I've learnt in the last few days reading tutorials etc.
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Why we will never get rid of corruption at government level
This is the reason why we will not get rid of corruption at government level. These guys are very protective over their extra income…
Type inference, don’t get bitten by var
I've been playing with some of the new features in C#, one of which being the var keyword. Which is not dynamic typing, it is just type inference. Meaning that the compiler will be assigning the type based on the value that you initialise the variable with when declaring it. And you have to initialise it with an actual value when using var.
After playing a bit, I discovered this little problem, which is probably just an incorrect assumption from my side, but I'm sure I'm not the only one that will make this assumption. If you look at this code sample.
A disconnected state
Over the last few years, I've been reading a lot of blogs. So far so, that it has become my main source of information for most things.
Recently I've come to realise that I'm reading in a disconnected state. No, I'm not talking about my connection to the net at the time of reading.