Archive for September, 2008
I like you
Sep 29th
I like you
Originally uploaded by SimonAntony.co.uk
I like you I do, honestly I do, fancy a date?
Scanning Electron Microscope Image
Sep 29th
This scanning electron microscope image, The Glass Forest by Mario De Stefano, won first place in photography in the International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge. It shows a community of tiny diatoms – algae characterised by a peculiar glass-like cell wall.
B&B nationalisation is confirmed
Sep 29th
I’m glad my mortgage is not with B&B:
Mortgage lender Bradford & Bingley (B&B) is to be nationalised, the government has confirmed.
Under the arrangement, the government will take control of the bank’s £50bn in mortgages and loans. Shares in the company have been suspended.
B&B’s £20bn savings business and branch network will be bought by rival Abbey, More >
About the name Simon Steed
Sep 17th
This is funny as hell, did a search on google for my name and blog and came across a site which promised to tell me all about myself, some of the stuff is pretty cool, things like
Apparently i’m very well envoweled – 40% of the letters are vowels. Of one million More >
Dotnet Charting
Sep 17th
I was looking for some suitable dotnet charting components/code and came across the following three articles.
http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/pseabury/2DCharting11152005052210AM/2DCharting.aspx
http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/steve_hall/drawinglinechart02072007053420AM/drawinglinechart.aspx
http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/jodonnell/ChartingInGDIplus11192005063716AM/ChartingInGDIplus.aspx
Heres a screenshot of the one i’m using:
Exception Handling the nice way
Sep 17th
I’ve knocked up a simple project that demonstrates a few things, namely:
Avoiding file locking issues when writing to a logfile using recursion
Dealing with Unhandled Exceptions globally
Writing this data to a local log file
The source code is below, feel free to download and use as you wish. If you make any improvements, please let me know. More >
Erect
Sep 17th
Erect
Originally uploaded by SimonAntony.co.uk
I love the serenity of this, it’s so obscure this tower sat in the middle of nowhere – in fact when the tide comes in, it laps at the edge of the green grass, even more surreal
What type of drinker are you?
Sep 17th
Apparently the british government have determined that there are nine types of drinker – excerpt from the BBC website:
Drinkers fall into ‘nine groups’
The government believes it has identified nine types of heavy drinker as it launches a new alcohol campaign.
Department of Health research with focus groups found heavy drinkers often fell into one of a More >
Get your local machine/computer name in c#
Sep 17th
Four ways to get your local network/machine name:
string name = Environment.MachineName;
string name = System.Net.Dns.GetHostName();
string name = System.Windows.Forms.SystemInformation.ComputerName;
string name = System.Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable(“COMPUTERNAME”);