Archive forSeptember, 2007

GO CATS !!!

GO CATS !! GO CATS !! GO CATS

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Queen Protea – pink ice

Here’s before and after pictures of pink ice protea:  

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Echidna photos

late this afternoon I noticed an echidna walking around near one of the wind breaks, so I snapped a few photos. Usually they burrow in when people approach, this  one did but then decided to stick his/her nose out to say hi 🙂     More photos of him/her on my picassa gallery:http://picasaweb.google.com.au/Bill.McCarthy.MVP/TheFarm   .

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"Is" gets a new role in VB 2008

Thanks to Julie’s post, I decided to dig deeper into the depths of VB than any sane man should go. While playing with nullable dates in the query, I was wondering why I could get the number of orders with a null ShipDate. I tried: Dim query = From order In db.SalesOrderHeaders _            Where Not order.ShipDate […]

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Moved my photos

As I uploaded a couple more photos to my flickr account, I got a warning that I had exceeded the 200 photo limit.  After looking for alternatives, such as My Spaces etc, I settled on Google’s Picasa.  The software is easy to use (although it lacks tagging it does albums well.  So my photo gallery […]

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C# defies logic

C# has some interesting rules for operators on nullable types. Given: int? x ; int? y ; Laws of transitivity tells us that if x is equal to y, (x == y), then x<= y would be true too. Well not in C#. With this function: static void test(int? arg1, int? arg2){    Console.WriteLine(“arg1 == arg2 […]

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Spring is here :)

Spring is here, the weather is lovely and some of the fruit trees are in full blossom  🙂    

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New twin head lawn mower for Spring

It’s Spring here, and I got me a new automatic twin head lawn mower:

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