All C#/WPF books and tutorials suffer from look-what-i-can-do syndrome. If I want, say, the simplest example of using binding to connect an integer in a C# class to a text edit field, so I can know "the user just typed the number 3", what I find is

• How to make a complete RSS reader using only XAML with binding to local or remote XML sources
• How to connect to a database and display product details including photographs in complicated data templates with pretty formatting
• How to connect controls and have a slider cause text to grow and shrink as you drag it, and turn large numbers red
• How to look up hard-coded data in your XAML document that shouldn't be there
• How to automatically populate lists with things like all running processes or all installed fonts
• Lots of unrelated code required by the shiny feature
• Lots of glossed-over behind-the-scenes magic
• Incomplete sketches about how you might do other things
• Blah blah blah
• No simplest complete fundamental unshiny-but-correct example

Ok, all done complain. Return to your not care.

On one particular folder, if I double-click it in Explorer, it hourglasses for a minute or two, then says

"Internet Connection Error: Your request cannot be completed because the service could not be found or did not respond. The service might be experiencing technical difficulties, or you may need to adjust your network settings."

I cancel, it pops up again, I cancel, it hourglasses again for a few minutes.

If I type in the full name of the path, it opens fine. Select all, hourglass, warning, warning, hourglass.

What insane person on this fine Earth decided opening a folder on a drive should kick off a network connection attempt? I'm pretty sure they're still alive somewhere, and it should in theory be possible to have a large duck egg crack on top of their head and drip down over their ears. But would the message get through? No. They'd just scream and WTF about a giant egg appearing on their head, and the software universe would be no better off.

I assume the culprit is one of the hundreds of things in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Shell Extensions \ Approved or suchlike. Crouching drive, hidden metadata. No energy to try to figure out. Don't see anything unusual in the folder itself except for a compressed folder inside.

Really wish things like "msconfig - load basic devices and services only" actually did what they claimed. Probably coded by the same people who made "System Restore (Not)".

 

Is DNA just an advanced prion?

That, dear children, was a really anatomically disturbing dream of sex with an alien. Who is a favorite of a mobster.

"In sharp contrast to the Fukuda criteria, this new clinical case definition makes it compulsory that in order to be diagnosed with ME/CFS, a patient must become symptomatically ill after exercise and must also have neurological, neurocognitive, neuroendocrine, dysautonomic, and immune manifestations. "

Hm. Don't think that applies to me. Shall have to exersperimentate and see.

Hee hee: Australians say "Sleep Apnoea"

love each other very much they make snail steaks.

...one learns that the word 'like' appears in, like, just about all young English sentences at least once. It may sometimes have actual purpose, perhaps at times similar to the use of 'be' in Black English Vernacular (aka "country talk").

...and seats get offered to nubile females in vague fantasies rooted in the male genes' hopes for DNA experiments. No mating happens in practice tho, and the seat is often declined.

...some self-assured nubile females in mutually supporting capacities will sing Santa Claus song to each other when they see a fat man, thinking they're getting away with a private joke.

...one learns that the word 'like' appears in, like, just about all young English sentences at least once. It may sometimes have actual purpose, perhaps at times similar to the use of 'be' in Black English Vernacular (aka "country talk").

...and seats get offered to nubile females in vague fantasies rooted in the male genes' hopes for DNA experiments. No mating happens in practice tho, and the seat is often declined.

...some self-assured nubile females in mutually supporting capacities will sing Santa Claus song to each other when they see a fat man, thinking they're getting away with a private joke.

45 minutes missing busses, bus stops, streets before finally find the magic combo that lets me get on a bus and then wait in traffic. Next time i'll just walk to my appointment and be late a less frustrating way.

3 iphone apps help me find:

Street corners that have no marked stops.

Marked stops that aren't marked for the bus the app claims to stop there.

Stops that are closed until December.

The right stop for the right bus that left in the past.

Stops for the same route number going in the wrong direction.

How to get on one bus at stop x, get off after 7 blocks to transfer to another bus that I could have boarded at the same stop x.

The right bus and right stop and right time, until i get close to the stop and check again for forgotten details and it decides to show me an entirely new route.

The right bus at the right stop which has a post marked with times different from what metro kc trip planner printed

I went to all of your Halloween parties, every one, as a completely invisible ghost. Such a fabulous costume you never seen!

I thought about going as an extrovert. But then I realized I'd have to simulate an extrovert.

Windows 7: "I want a whole lot of Less" TV commercial.

So what I want to know is, should I buy Windows 7 Starter Less, Home Premium Less, Windows 7 Professional Less, or Windows 7 Ultimate Less? Just what quality of less fits my needs and my budget? Should I get more Less, or less Less?

American Freedom blinded after coming to fisticuffs with a Honda on a foggy ill-dignified corner. Both headlights noworky, right one wobbly in socket. Enemy combatant taillight picked off of floor and tossed in back as trophy. Riders unharmed. My enemy, the bus system, wins my morning sleepdollars. People better keep their grubby sneezes to themselves.

Must find gnathic haruspex to take a poke at Freedom, see if aught can wright the wrongs.

And get a flu shot.

now with more chunkit

why, mommy?

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in which i determine if costco saves dollars enough to be worth the inconvenience of limited selection and sizes designed for families of 20 or more:

Whut	Costco	Amazon Fresh	Safeway
Bob's Red Mill Steel Cut Oats per 72 oz	4.75	9.39	none
Wild Coho Salmon fillet per lb	7.99	10.69	8.99
Pork Chop meat gobbits per lb	2.79	4	2.29
Vanilla per 16 oz	6.49	42.84	53.52
Cinnamon Sticks per 8oz	5.45	none	none
Leafs (organic spring mix) per lb	3.79	7.99	4.99
Dried Cherries per 20oz	8.49	out of stock	none
Mrs. May's Trio thingy bars per 34oz	15.99	none	none
Ibuprofin gel 200mg per 360	13.29	none	17.98
Pitted dates per 48oz	5.99	20.16	none
Ocean Spray Craisins per 36oz	5.99	8.1	none
Dry Roasted Almonds per 40oz	8.99	16.96	22.50909
Drawstring Kitchen Trash Bags per 200	9.99	23.4	24.68

Hm.

Roving bands of frugal families should probably band together and buy such things and split into individual human-sized containers.

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I am perhaps spoiled by using the GUI Perforce client. Is there a equally good GUI client for Subversion? I am so far being not impressed.

What are the *s blocking here?

Berlin icons Jesse Owens and Usain Bolt have been credited with inspiring Britain's athletes to salvage their lost pride.

The Brits went to the World Championships with head coach Charles van Commenee saying the public regarded them as a bunch of injury-prone 'pussies and w*****s'.

They left yesterday with six medals in the bag and their self-respect restored after their best championship performance in a decade.

Oh wait, I has the intarwebz and don't need to ask people things anymore: wankers

So that's a naughtier word in Britain than "pussies"?

UPDATE

Oh wait, I has the netarwebz and don't need to ask people things anymore: NSFW in UK listing, doesn't list pussy. Now we all want an etymology of pussy-as-expletive. And since we have the Webbez of 1nt@r, we find:

The meaning "weak or cowardly person" has a separate etymology. Websters 1913 Revised Unabridged Dictionary lists this version of pussy as an alternate spelling of "pursy," an otherwise obsolete English word meaning "fat and short-breathed; fat, short, and thick; swelled with pampering ..."[1] The interpretation is often misconstrued, as it contains multiple meanings which some consider derogatory.[2] In fact, when pussy appears in the earlier 1828 edition of the dictionary, this definition is presented for the word, while the older pursy is simply offered as a "corrupt orthography."

Pursy (pronounced with a short u, and with the r slurred or silent) was in turn derived from an Old French word variously spelled pourcif, poulsif, poussif, meaning "to push, thrust, or heave." In this sense, it is cognate with the modern French verb pousser, also meaning "to push."

What do these cities have in common?

Abidjan, Ahmadabad, Casablanca, Chittagong, Harbin, Hyderabad, Ibadan, Jiddah, Kano, Pune, Pusan, Surat, Wuhan, Xian

( one answer... )

What's a nice open source project that desperately needs good SDK/API documentation written?

...around midnight PST sometime probably maybe. Your new IP address will be 96.30.24.164

Downtime should be a couple of hours as I verify and pat everything into place. (I'm doing stupid DNS tricks to avoid the days of lag before DNS updates.)

If you have trouble connecting in the morning, try flushing your DNS (or restart your machine if that's too complicated).

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NOTE: This server has Installatron in addition to Fantastico. Installatron seems to be a better thing, so I'll be disabling all of the Fantastico scripts that are also present in Installatron. I'll be importing all supported Fantastico script installations into Installatron so it can take over the updating/managing.

NOTE EVEN MORE: I'm now requiring secure (https) connections for the control panel. But, I don't have a stupid certificate, since that costs money, so it will warn you that the site is untrusted. It's safe to add an exception as long as you believe that I am me.

NOTE EVEN LESS: If you don't know or care about Subversion and Trac, ignore this: Subversion & Trac are listed under Software if you're in admin mode, not user mode. Why? I don't know. I haven't actually used it yet. You can switch between the two at the top of the control panel, unless you don't have an admin account, in which case you can't, in which case++ you can request one of me. Fixed

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