June 2005 Archives

Timely information

Here I am, at about 2 in the morning thinking about timely information. Take for example accessing a file's Version Information (Windows applications). The API is piss easy, it's jut a bit noxious. I wrote myself up a small class to extract this for my applications. The problem is that this code is to all intents obsolete - there is a class in .NET that covers it.
This is the two forked problem with the internet. When you have a problem, by the time you've either (a) solved it or (b) found the solution, the world has gone and passed you by. Almost depressing, I might add.

The Pedants' Revolt

Nice little program on the BBC tonight. It's been on in BBC 4 before, and I really like it. I am a pedant, and just a little proud of the fact.

Mark Kingston is gone

There was a phone call late tonight from someone that nobody recognized.
A very good friend of mine was killed in a car crash in Roscrea.
This brings to two the number of close friends I have who were killed in road traffic accidents.

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