Giggles…

Sometimes American politics is just too much. Josh Marshall:
Sen. Vitter, fresh off his prostitution scandal might be challenged for his seat by the chief of the Family Research Council, Tony Perkins, who presumably doesn’t sleep with prostitutes.
And if porn star Stormy Daniels gets into the race, it’ll be a threesome.

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Towards a multipolar world

Interesting article in the New York Times – Waving Goodbye to Hegemony. Among the things we learn is that the EU way is to talk softly but carry a big wallet…

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This is not good

It is actually pretty FUBAR:
Let’s review. We have:

The head of the FBI’s national security branch
The Vice Chairman of the House Intelligence subcommittee on technical and tactical intelligence.
The Chairwoman of the House Intelligence subcommittee charged with overseeing the C.I.A.’s recruiting efforts in the Islamic world

And they each know less — probably much less — about the [...]

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Read Billmon!

If you haven’t already, go read Billmon. Today’s topic is on approval rating and gas prices.
If this continues, cholera is going to end up with a higher approval rating. It looks to me like the only “five point” plan that could possibly revive Shrub’s political fortunes is the star on the end of Tinkerbell’s little [...]

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Access to MySQL

Access to MySQL from www.bullzip.com is a handy little tool that will convert Microsoft Access Databases to MySQL

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.NET Property Control

.NET General

Helps you understand the PropertyGrid control in the Microsoft .NET Framework and how to customize it for your application.

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Moral issues…

My sentiment exactly (The Gadflyer: Fly Trap)
Moral issues? Well, frankly, we don’t mind boys kissing all that much. But we think children living in poverty is pretty immoral in a developed country. So we choose not to accept it–it’s a moral choice. Our child poverty rate, at 2.6% is one ninth of your 22.4% Ouch [...]

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But competition takes care of this, right?

From Billmon:
Editorial independence (i.e. the freedom to tell the reader or viewer what you think they need to know, rather than what you think they want to hear) has always been a rather strange artifact in a competitive, capitalist industry like journalism.
And I don’t mean that state controlled media is the answer by the title [...]

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C# Programming, Remoting in .NET

This article was very useful:The Code Project – Remoting with GUIs – C# Programming. What is it about? In the author’s own words:

Most introductory articles about remoting focus on console-based applications, but frequently beginners ask, “How can I do remoting with a GUI?”. I was asking the same question several months ago, but I couldn’t [...]

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Some threading info

An article on Codeproject discussing some useful UI programming stuff…

You are developing this shiny new multithreaded .NET application that has this spanking new UI. You are done coding and it’s time for giving a demo to your boss. And while running the demo, the UI hangs. Just hangs. Damn it, you say, it was working [...]

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