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Merry Christmas! And may the eggnog be forever spiked!
Jeremy Falcon
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Merry Christmas to you too and to everyone!
May the mythical Chris'stmas Bob bring you a lot of gifts tonight. 
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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When you are that when you are good natured to and wish everyone Season's Greetings that we have four seasons every year - a cosmic hint that the idea of "good will" wasn't meant to be a sometimes thing.
What's a smile worth these days?
Even while the rest of the world around you doesn't seem to share the idea with you, take the aforementioned, your own personal bubble of heaven with you, wherever you go.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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.. and what that personal bubble of heaven would be?
A bunch of friends, girl-friend? In that case, I would like to leave this bubble to gain some peace of mind atleast so that I can not just shout at others in anxiety. Peace of mind matters sir, peace of mind matters!
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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If you read what he said, it's a smile.
And I find that smiling at people helps.
If nothing else, it makes them wonder what you know that they don't...and need to.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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It helps only, if you are stronger enough to sustain the chair that will be thrown to you after a few moments. 
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan wrote: Peace of mind matters sir, peace of mind matters!
Then you just found your personal bubble of heaven  I understand that it is whatever makes you smile. Not what you have to do to look happy, but what just makes you happy.
Cheers!
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"My software never has bugs. It just develops random features."
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Quote: I understand that it is whatever makes you smile. Not what you have to do to look happy, but what just makes you happy.
That is what it takes to smile! A smile, that is eternal and never ending. A fake smile can never be eternal, but painfull.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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It is nothing more than personal inner space, inner peace of mind. That the season of good-will exists at least as long as you, yourself, are breathing.
It's not a hiding place to become oblivious to the world around you.
It's a place where you remember to enjoy the smell of the wind before a storm and the glorious fireworks the lightening brings. Reminding oneself that a dandelion is is a flower - not a weed - and a field full of them whether in bloom or in seed, is magnificent. And that you're never to proud to enjoy running through them so the air fills with the tiny fairies that carry their seed.
And how much more so with your fellow beings!
Heaven is, in reality, what you make of it.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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So, what I might take conclusion from this would be that you're of the point of view like "Nature is better than Computer world". I agree to you too.
The last thing is the one I would love to agree to, you're right, heaven is not a cloudy place up in the skies, it is what we make of it.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan wrote: So, what I might take conclusion from this would be that you're of the point of view like "Nature is better than Computer world". I agree to you too.
No. Not at all.
I'd not push myself into a corner with such reasoning - no reason to pick a favorite.
The computer gives me a place to create/invent, and otherwise push buttons to my hearts content - and for the most part, I can even undo what I've done. Since I enjoy my work I don't mind the time that passed. On top of all of that, it also puts food on my table.
It diminishes not, nor is it diminished, by natures beauty. Only today I ordered seeds: dahlias and cacti. Stunning beauty in form - stunning beauty in structure - I'd never want to do without either in my world.
So - if you wish to gather something from all of this - perhaps a bit of something from the poet Robert Herrick: "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may".
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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The Poem^
And one of my own:
Winter is neigh; we trundle homeward in twilight;
Swaddled, we prepare to endure.
Eagerly awaiting the passage into spring;
Forgetting how precious are these few moments
We call a lifetime.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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That was really a sweet poem, as it almost just took me back to my childhood, when I was just 5 years old living in our village, waiting eagerly to go outside and enter my own world.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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W∴ Balboos wrote: What's a smile worth these days?
Dunno, how much do they have to pay the salespeople with their eternal fake smiles?
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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W∴ Balboos wrote: What's a smile worth these days?
At certain moments, a smile can be the difference between life and death.
But, generally, the worth of a smile is proportional to the degree to which it is ... unconditional, spontaneous, freely given.
Merry Holidays !
«OOP to me means only messaging, local retention and protection and hiding of state-process, and extreme late-binding of all things. » Alan Kay's clarification on what he meant by the term "Object" in "Object-Oriented Programming."
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Well I am retired now and looking for something to stimulate the old intellect before it gets all rusted. So next year I will get proficient in coding WPF MVVM, which I never quite mastered. I may never actually need it, but it will sure improve my grasp of subjects like data binding. Of course, numerous articles on CP will help me along!
In the mean time, tomorrow at the Christmas dinner, we will have two guests that are well into computer technology. So we will be sure to raise a glass of kindness in honor of 10 million other Code Project subscribers, to wish all good health and prosperity in the new year. This goes double for the kind authors of the articles that I found so useful over time.
Allow me to close with an Irish toast:
May the road rise to meet you
May the wind be always at your back;
the sunshine warm upon your face;
the rain fall softly on your fields.
Fair winds and following seas.
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Long way before me to get retired... (27 years), but Christmas dinner starts for next 2 hours.
Merry Christmas!
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Merry Christmas
It's good to stay active and set goals for yourself. Been retired for several years now and love that I can do and learn things at my own pace.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0
There's a fine line between crazy and free spirited and it's usually a prescription.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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Merry Christmas! And may the eggnog be forever spiked!
Jeremy Falcon
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Cornelius Henning wrote: May the road rise to meet you
May the wind be always at your back;
the sunshine warm upon your face;
the rain fall softly on your fields.
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the palm of His hand.
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
I would agree with you but then we both would be wrong.
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
I'm on-line therefore I am.
JimmyRopes
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Cornelius Henning wrote: Well I am retired now and looking for something to stimulate the old intellect before it gets all rusted. So next year I will get proficient in coding WPF MVVM
Just curious why MVVM and not MVC for which Visual Studio has sample applications to get you started.
I don't know the relative advantages and disadvantages of either choice except for the MVC project type in VS making MVC easy to get started with.
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
I would agree with you but then we both would be wrong.
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
I'm on-line therefore I am.
JimmyRopes
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I suppose I thought that MVVM is the later programming methodology of the two, and so has to be "better". I realize it will be slower to learn, but as I said I am retired and so speed is not that important to me. There are plenty of good MVVM examples on the web, so the absence of good guidance is not a concern. Hopefully I made the right choice! 
You just cannot fix stupid.
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Here in the USA he would have been granted amnesty!
You just cannot fix stupid!
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