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Never fly Delta/Northwest.

Christian Graus — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:00:00 GMT

They were VERY late leaving. We get in, and everyone gets up ( the light was off ). 10 minutes later, they announce we all need to sit and belt up, we need to be dragged another 10 feet to be in position to disembark. I go to get my bag, it's not there. The one staff member is overwhelmed with missing bags. She is rude. She tells me the baggage tag does not help her to track my bag, she needs my boarding pass. She writes down a number, and gives it to me and tells me to go.

The number is illegible, but I managed to get the message on their website to change from 'this is not a valid number' to 'this website does not support your airline', so who knows ?
I am in MI for two nights ( I leave day after tomorrow at 6 am ), so I'll be interested to see if they find my bag in that time.

Christian Graus

Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.

"! i don't exactly like or do programming and it only gives me a headache." - spotted in VB forums.

I can do things with my brain that I can't even google. I can flex the front part of my brain instantly anytime I want. It can be exhausting and it even causes me vision problems for some reason. - CaptainSeeSharp

Iced Coffee

Henry Minute — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:11:00 GMT

Yesterday I made up a 2 Litre batch of coffee to use for a refreshing drink during the current heat-wave.

This evening after dinner, I made myself a large one and was sitting on the couch, sipping away, when I thought to myself, self, I thought, what this needs is a slug of Rum. Unfortunately I didn't have any, in fact I didn't have any liquor at all. I generally don't keep alcoholic drinks at home except for Christmas-time.

Christmas!! Ah yes, in the back of the kitchen cupboard the remnants of a 1 pint bottle of Brandy I had used to make my Christmas cake last year.

1 slug later and all is well. Magic.

Henry Minute

Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”

Wee Johnny's and Gordon Brown

daveauld — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:02:00 GMT

[in your best scottish accents]

GORDON BROWN was visiting a Scottish primary school and he visited one of the classes.

They were in the middle of a discussion related to words and their meanings. The teacher asked Mr. Brown if he would like to lead the discussion on the word 'tragedy'.

So the illustrious leader asked the class for an example of a 'tragedy'.

A little boy stood up and offered: 'If ma best freen, wha lives on a fairm, is playin' in the field an' a tractor rins ower him and kills him, that wid be a 'tragedy.'

'No', said Gordon - 'that would be an accident.'

A little girl raised her hand: 'If a skale bus kerryin' fufty children drove ower a cliff, killing a'b'dy inside, that wid be a tragedy'

'I'm afraid not', explained Gordon - 'that's what we would call a 'great loss'' .

The room went silent. No other children volunteered. Gordon searched the room.

'Isn't there someone here who can give me an example of a tragedy?'

Finally, at the back of the room, wee Johnny raised his hand...

In a quiet voice he said:

'If a plane kerryin' you and Mr. Darlin' wis struck by a 'freendly fire' missile and blawn tae smithereens, that wid be a tragedy.'

'Fantastic!' exclaimed Gordon. 'That's right. And can you tell me why that would be a tragedy?'

'Weel,' says wee Johnny 'it his tae be a tragedy, because it certainly widnae be a great loss.....and it probably widnae be a f*cking accident either!

Dave
Who am I?: http://www.bebo.com/daveauld/
or http://www.dave-auld.net/

Kodu

Chris Losinger — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:40:00 GMT

MS's new game builder app[^] uses a simple programming language which could be a good candidate for the answer to "which programming language should I teach my kids first?"

image processing toolkits | batch image processing

Visual studio refractoring tool

VentsyV — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:17:00 GMT

Is it possible to somehow automatically insert my function/variable names in my code ? for example:

int temp()
{

MessageBox.Show(CURRENT_FUNC + " is running");
}

Wimbleton news...

Dalek Dave — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:13:00 GMT

The Venus Brothers to play each other in final.

Miserable Racist Scot's git hopeful for Final appearance.

All the attractive women are out.

now Bob with the weather...

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"When Belly Full, Chin Hit Chest"
Confucius 502BC

Not niggardly

Trollslayer — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:00:00 GMT

Headless chickens going on over a gas company[^].
Some people need to get over themselves.

Visit http://www.notreadytogiveup.com/[^] and do something special today.

OK, An annoyance that needs to be eradicated.

Dalek Dave — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:48:00 GMT

I keep getting a bar at the top of the IE screen saying it is running with Add-ons disabled, how do I get rid of it permanantly?

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"When Belly Full, Chin Hit Chest"
Confucius 502BC

Project finishers..

VuNic — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:56:00 GMT

How the heck you do it?

Few ambitious projects I started at home, looks like this :
Need to finish them off soon.[^]

btw, when did the smilies move to their new apartment??

Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.

Black clouds & silver linings

Harvey Saayman — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:54:00 GMT

I've been listening to the new Dream Theater album black clouds & silver linings[^], and its epic

Any of the Petrucci / Portnoy followers give it a listen yet?

Harvey Saayman - South Africa
Software Developer
.Net, C#, SQL
you.suck = (you.Occupation == jobTitles.Programmer && you.Passion != Programming)
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Problem with Verizon resolved :-)

Xiangyang Liu 刘向阳 — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:29:00 GMT

I posted a while ago on verizon charged me $6.65 per minute for calls to china[^]. Taking advice from people who replied to my post, I filed a complaint to FCC and also to the office of cosumer protection division in my state.

I was contacted by Verizon a few days ago about my FCC complaint. They agreed to issue credit for about $580 (the original charge of $532.70 plus tax), I need only to pay their lowest international rate, which is about $8 for over 100 minutes. However, they did not admit that they did anyting wrong. Of course, nobody will admit that these days.

My .NET Business Application Framework
My Home Page
My Younger Son & His "PET"

Why is it....

Alison Pentland — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:29:00 GMT

.... that when I see 23 1 votes I want to vote 5?

Ali

One for Dave

Brady Kelly — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:56:00 GMT

I'm dealing with some accounts code, and was wondering, as I always wonder when I look at T tables, why it is that we debit the cost of sales account with the cost. Surely a sale increases the cost, so a credit makes more sense to me, or are expense accounts tallied negatively?

Where are the 1-Voters?

Deyan Georgiev — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:16:00 GMT

A very low one voters activity for the last couple of days. They probably have a conference or something?

The narrow specialist in the broad sense of the word is a complete idiot in the narrow sense of the word.

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Visual Studio annoyance

melchizidech — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:05:00 GMT

OK, kind of not a programming question, kind of is. Does anybody know how to stop VS throwing #region statements into my classes when I implement an interface using the shift_alt_f10 shortcut? It's really starting to bug me.

Smokie, this is not 'Nam. This is bowling. There are rules.
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Notification sms and Standard sms.

"_$h@nky_" — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:58:00 GMT

I m deal with two type of sms in any mobile.

one is Standard sms and other one is notification sms,

Standard sms that is automatically saved in Inbox of recipient mobile phone.

Notification sms that is automaticaly opened on recipient mobile screen and not saved in Inbox.when user exit the notification msg than its automatically destroy.

please tell me there is any other terms that is use in place of Notification sms.

and please explain me both.

and if possible please tell me how can i send Notification sms in cemapi.

thanks in advance.

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream;
not only plan, but also believe.

JOTD

d@nish — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:57:00 GMT

Each Friday night after work, Santa Singh would fire up his outdoor grill and cook a tandoori chicken and some meat kebabs. But, all of his neighbours were strict Catholics ... and since it was Lent, they were forbidden from eating chicken and meat on a Friday.

The delicious aroma from the grilled meats was causing such a problem for the Catholic faithful that they finally talked to their Priest. The Priest came to visit Santa, and suggested that he become a Catholic. After several classes and much study, Santa attended Mass ... and as the priest
sprinkled holy water over him, he said, “You were born a Sikh, and raised a Sikh, but now, you are a Catholic."

Santa’s neighbors were greatly relieved, until Friday night arrived. The wonderful aroma of tandoori chicken and meat kebabs filled the neighbourhood. The Priest was called immediately by the neighbors, and, as he rushed into Santa's backyard, clutching a rosary and prepared to scold him, he stopped and watched in amazement. There stood Santa, holding a small bottle of holy water which he
carefully sprinkled over the grilling meats and chanted: "Oye, you waz born a chicken, and you waz born a lamb, you waz raised a chicken, and you waz raised a lamb but now yara(dear), you are a potato and tomato"!

Here, Santa!= SantaClause.

the while(1) loop

Ralph_2 — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:42:00 GMT

Anyone from Embedded Systems backround? Presently into it?

Hi from gorgeous, sunny, Lebanon!

Mustafa Ismail Mustafa — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:39:00 GMT

Just thought I'd pop in and say hey

Gorgeous beaches, fantastic food, wonderful company and flowing wine! Y'all should come over here now that everything is settled!

Back on Sunday

Ta!

If the post was helpful, please vote, eh!

Current activities:
Book: Devils by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Project: Hospital Automation, final stage
Learning: Image analysis, LINQ

Now and forever, defiant to the end.
What is Multiple Sclerosis[^]?

Contracting in Europe

James Simpson — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:34:00 GMT

Hi,

I have a possibility of a 6 month contract in Copenhagen. Has anyone worked in Denmark and understand the tax liabilities? I think there is a 180 day rule which means I would only need to pay tax to HMRC.

I'm Late 20's, I don't live with my better half, so it should'nt be too much of an adjustment, im just worried the excitement would wear of after 3 months, so any personal experiences on how to make improve working away from home??

Also, what sort of rate adjustment would you make for a temporary contract in Europe.. bearning in mind that I would need to rent an apartment (this looks like the cheapest way!) I've added about 30% on my basic rate for this...

Thanks,

James

James Simpson
Web Solutions Developer
www.methodworx.com