The Associated Press is reporting that Egypt has suspended mobile phone services in some areas where protests are expected. It’s disconcerting as this kind of
Month: January 2011
Egypt – 404 Not Found
Well, in a rather stunning development in the Middle East turmoils, Egypt has shut down the Internet. Completely. As in none. Zero. Nadda. Zilch. Zippo.
RDBMS Table Design in Excel?
I was just thinking about data mining relationships between atoms and chemical compounds, and about putting it all into a nice, neat RDBMS for that,
Iterating Over a DirectoryInfo is Fast!
DirectoryInfo is really very fast to iterate through. While working on some software, I’ve been experimenting with different approaches to find the most efficient and
Copying Collapsed Rows/Columns in Excel Excludes Hidden Data
Excel doesn’t copy collapsed columns or rows, which can be excruciatingly painful to figure out. When copying Excel data into a text editor (or other
if (false) { behave nice; } else { freak out; }
Using “false” in a conditional causes all variables in the else clause to return nothing while debugging. Huh? Yep. Here’s a screenshot of inside an
Boxing and Unboxing in C#
While working on some threading stuff, I came across an excellent article on boxing and unboxing in C#. The author goes into great detail showing
Street Kids in Toorak?
Like WTF? Toorak is one of the best neighborhoods in Melbourne. And there are kids living in the alleys here. I just got back after
Pakistanis Helping Racist Crap
How can I not hate so many of the people in Pakistan. How can anyone not revile in disgust at so many of the Pakistani
How to Update ListViewItems in a Listview
Here are 2 ways to update values in a ListView with C#: private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) { // Add some items. ListViewItem lvi
