Contents tagged with Musings
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My Latest Work
Sky Lynn Reed's 0th birthday is 5/15/2008 at 5:44pm, when she weighed 8 pounds, 0 ounces. A nice round binary number. Our first born! There are simply no words to describe the experience. We debated on whether we should have kids for a long time. After being married almost 5 years now, we finally decided to take the plunge. Now that she's here, and about 5 weeks old, we couldn't imagine our lives without her.
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OnLoad vs. Page_Load vs. Load event
I get this question a lot for some reason. The more general question is whether it is better to override a virtual method on the page or control in question (OnLoad, OnInit, OnPreRender, etc), or to hook into the corresponding event. For page development you have yet another choice; that magical Page_Load method.
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Hacking the Universe: Quantum Mechanics
"I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale." - Marie CurieGoing a little off topic today. But with this audience, I bet you are more likely to be interested than if this were a blog about politics.
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Keyboard wish #47: Mouse keys
How many times do you copy something just because you want to paste it somewhere else, immediately? Only, you get yourself into quite a mess if there's something valuable already on the clipboard. Sure, there are tools out there that allow for multiple clipboard items. It's built right into Office and even Visual Studio. But who uses that feature really? They're... clunky. For me, I always end up running a quick Win+R+notepad+Ctrl-V. Ahh the endless uses of notepad... but anyway.... all this madness and all you want to do is get something from ------> here
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Bug: I couldn't care less
Just a bit off topic today, but this has been bugging me for years and years and I finally have a significant channel through which I can attempt to set the record straight.