[OT] All is not what it seems

2010-02-26 Thread David Connors
Something for an end of OT Friday: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clnozSXyF4k Quite incredible how much mundane stuff you watch on TV is 90% fake. The scenes from Ugly Betty are incredible. I guess footpath permits are damned expensive to justify this. -- David Connors (da...@codify.com)

RE: [OT] Multiple questions in an email

2010-02-26 Thread Richard Carde
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 9:41 PM, David Richards ausdot...@davidsuniverse.com wrote: Greetings all, Has anyone else noticed people often don't answer more than one question in an email? In fact, I'll generalise that and say people often don't read an entire email. I had this today

RE: Splash Screen..thread safe

2010-02-26 Thread James Chapman-Smith
Hi Anthony, The very first thing you should do is remove the Application.DoEvents() calls. These are inherently bad and will cause all sorts of concurrency and threading issues. You can end up with re-entrancy stack overflows... The best thing is to create the splash screen in its own

RE: [OT] Bill gates on our energy futures - some tech miracles needed

2010-02-26 Thread Ian Thomas
I just hate the inflammatory wording in that explanation of the Melbourne Water graph - What does this graph show? Annual inflows into Melbourne's 4 major reservoirs since 1913. While ups and downs are a constant feature, the average has dropped rapidly by almost 40% in the past 12 years. This

Re: [OT] Bill gates on our energy futures - some tech miracles needed

2010-02-26 Thread David Connors
On 27 February 2010 11:54, Ian Thomas il.tho...@iinet.net.au wrote: I just hate the inflammatory wording in that explanation of the Melbourne Water graph – “*What does this graph show?* Annual inflows into Melbourne's 4 major reservoirs since 1913. While ups and downs are a constant

RE: Splash Screen..thread safe

2010-02-26 Thread Greg Keogh
Anthony, the sample cs file I sent you shows how to do Application.Run(formInstance) in a thread. It's surprisingly few lines of code. Greg

RE: [OT] Bill gates on our energy futures - some tech miracles needed

2010-02-26 Thread Tony Wright
And I suppose Warwick Hughes has it all right? If anyone has an agenda here with a foregone conclusion it’s got to be him. Since well before 2005, when he requested the IPCC data, he was bagging anything remotely green. No wonder they didn’t want to give anything to him, they knew his agenda