September 2006

Some things never change. Some things do. [Morpheus, The Matrix]

Submitted by pwnell on Wed, 09/20/2006 - 01:39

My wife and I had known each other for 5 years and 1 day today. It is scary how time flies. And we are still together, and very much in love.

But my blog site (and the other two "commercial" ones I have been carrying along) have merged into one consolidated blog - this one.

One person - one blog. Thought that would be elegant. Anything I post on from now can be found right here. Hope you like the new colour scheme. I do...

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My attempt at maintaining a Reef Aquarium

Submitted by pwnell on Wed, 09/20/2006 - 02:03

I recently (about 3 months ago) started a reef aquarium. Back in the days I lived with my parents my dad used to own a large tropical aquarium, and I remember I was fascinated by it. But that was a lifetime ago...

It started with an itch. That slowly progressed to a curiosity, which ended up in LOTS of research on the Internet. After two weeks of research I decided I was ready to start looking around for a shop to purchase the tank from.

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Why #region is evil in C#

Submitted by pwnell on Thu, 09/21/2006 - 18:45

C# has a nice preprocessor directive called #region. In principle it is very cool, but it is like so many cool ideas - HORRIBLY broken.

The idea behind the directive is to allow you (or the IDE) to mark a block of code for hiding in the IDE. So if I have:

#region Private members
private void SomeMethod() {
  int i;
  ...
}
#endregion

The editor will then allow me to use cold folding on that block and thus collapse it to:

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160MP Camera

Submitted by pwnell on Fri, 09/22/2006 - 01:01

160MP Camera

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HB2M

Submitted by pwnell on Fri, 09/22/2006 - 04:04

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