http://quarter-flash.com/wp The ramblings of a new writer Sun, 04 Jul 2010 02:39:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en List<Position> result; // insert the questions into a structure to make them easy to search while ((line = data.ReadLine ()) != null) { //Console.WriteLine ("{0}", line); string[] words = line.Split(delimiters, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries); wordPosition = 0; foreach (string word in words) { if ((result = noSig.Find(word)).Count != 0) significant ... http://quarter-flash.com/wp/2010/07/03/interesting-message-from-mono-c-compiler/ The love story of Ralph and Edna... Just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.  Ralph and Edna were both patients in a mental hospital.  One day while they were walking past the hospital swimming pool Ralph ... http://quarter-flash.com/wp/2009/08/28/ralph-and-edna/ Or so the email says. One of the more imaginative Nigerian schemes, to be sure, but still full of typos. Maybe I could get rich just getting hired out to make their emails look more realistice. A 1% fee should be a nice additional income, right? Here's the text of the email: URGEN ... http://quarter-flash.com/wp/2009/04/09/ive-been-contacted-by-the-fbi/ I find myself wondering how many different support companies HP uses. A while back my 6 month old laptop stopped booting up. Lights would come on, but nothing would ever happen. Wouldn't even boot off of a CD. So, I send an email, exchange a couple of things with this support person ... http://quarter-flash.com/wp/2009/04/01/hp-support/ Beginning Open Office 3: From Novice to Professional Apress / http://www.apress.com/book/view/9781430215905 ISBN:978-1-4302-1-590-5 A Review I had a chance to review this recently published book and my overall impression is very positive. The author has spent time getting to know the program and how it works. In a series of chapters he explains each of the components ... http://quarter-flash.com/wp/2009/01/27/review-openoffice-3-from-novice-to-professional/ A very nice day today for a change. Well, really it's not been all that bad here, we didn't get the deep cold that a lot of the rest of the country did. Still, today was warm enough to get outside without a coat or even, for that matter, a ... http://quarter-flash.com/wp/2009/01/17/made-some-sawdust-today/ Well, now that Sherri mentioned me in Charles' newsletter, I suppose I need to keep things updated over here as well :) A bit of background - I had to give up flying after I had the two discs in my neck fused as I no longer had the range and ... http://quarter-flash.com/wp/2009/01/14/woodworking-and-web-design/ Now, I'm not a major music seeker, but on occasion I like to listen to something other than the local station. Recently I've had more time to look for music because they changed up the Morning Show and it's just not as much fun any more. I ran across this site ... http://quarter-flash.com/wp/2008/10/23/free-music/ I've decided, as I may have mentioned before, that I plan on using C# and GTK# built using MonoDevelop as my cross-platform platform of choice. I've always had one problem with this - getting the GUI to be responsive. You have to understand that I've been programming a long time (the ... http://quarter-flash.com/wp/2008/08/03/gtk-tutorial/ For a project I'm working on I needed an assembly that would easily parse a command line. "A command line? What's that?"  you might ask. I understand that most of the programs you run always start up with a GUI that you can then use to set up all your parameters. ... http://quarter-flash.com/wp/2008/07/22/net-command-line-parsing/