I’m playing around with a new site design. Mostly black & white, with simple graphics using the “Poor Richard” font. It still needs some work. I definitely need to work on the way this text looks, for instance. And, oh yeah, I need to find a better HTML editor than HomeSite 2, which has gotta be about 10 years old now. Maybe TopStyle?
Month: February 2003
A Stroke of Genie-us
Okay, I have to admit I’m stuck on “A Stroke of Genie-us” by The Freelance Hellraiser. Christina Aguilera meets the Strokes. Okay, if I was really hip, I would have known about this a year ago.
crabwalk
I’ve been checking Josh Benton’s blog on crabwalk.com a lot lately. Follow some of his links, and waste some time. Good stuff.
learning C#
I think I’ve finally finished converting my little calculator program from C++ to C#. The last stumbling block was figuring out how to substitute standard input with the contents of a string that had been passed on the command-line. The answer was to declare a TextReader object, then assign it to Console.In when I wanted to read from the console, or a StringReader object when I wanted to read from a string. Easy! (Once you’ve figured out that there’s such a thing as a StringReader object, and that it’s interchangeable with Console.In.)
sinfest
Excellent Sinfest today.
misc links
Canon LiDE 30
Picked up a new scanner today — a Canon LiDE 30. Had a heck of a time figuring out how to clear up enough desk space for it. I had to turn my mouse pad sideways so it would fit, but I still seem to have enough room to use the mouse comfortably.
a hashtable of delegates
I figured out how to create (and use) a hashtable of delegates in C# today! Yay! This article was helpful. A bit more work, and I’ll be done rewriting my C++ calculator program in C#.
The Modern Word
I just discovered an interesting book site, The Modern Word, while looking for information about Jorge Luis Borges. Some great Borges quotes there:
“There is no intellectual exercise which is not ultimately useless.”
“The history of the universe…is the handwriting produced by a minor god in order to communicate with a Demon.”
“To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.”
Just great, great, stuff.