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  • C Chris Maunder

    I was just thinking that many of the regulars at Code Project know each other pretty well, but I was wondering about those that have just discovered CodeProject. Are you sitting back, mouth agape, wondering what this is all about, or just watching the inmates in a bemused fashion while you find your way around? In any case, it would be cool if all those who have just signed on droped in to say hi and let us know who you are, where you live and what you do. cheers, Chris Maunder (CodeProject)

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    Arno van Loenen
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    Hello World... Well, Hello Code Project might be more appropriate ;) The timing of this message couldn't be better. I just discovered Code Project by hitting on it using a search engine trying to find something completely different ;). I already posted two small replies and decided that instead of going around anonymous (it has its advantages though), I'd sign on and put my name where my text is. Browsing through some of the articles already gave me some nice insights into topics of my personal interest. Maybe one glorious day I will post one of my own. The topics of interest for me are: 3D programming, C++, C, MFC, COM, Win32 Shell programming, GUI design and probably some other topics I dont think of right now. A short biography: I am currently employed by Philips as an IT engineer. I received my MSc. in Electrotechnical and IT engineering at the Technical University of Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Well, that about sums it up I think... Hopefully we will cross paths soon ! Arno van Loenen

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    • C Chris Maunder

      I was just thinking that many of the regulars at Code Project know each other pretty well, but I was wondering about those that have just discovered CodeProject. Are you sitting back, mouth agape, wondering what this is all about, or just watching the inmates in a bemused fashion while you find your way around? In any case, it would be cool if all those who have just signed on droped in to say hi and let us know who you are, where you live and what you do. cheers, Chris Maunder (CodeProject)

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      NickLewis
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      I only discovered CP recently and wished I had done so longer ago. It helped me out the other day with a problem I had and I noticed other resources that I would more than likely need to read at a future time. I am a developer and come from england, Keep up the good work, Nick Lewis.

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        I only discovered CP recently and wished I had done so longer ago. It helped me out the other day with a problem I had and I noticed other resources that I would more than likely need to read at a future time. I am a developer and come from england, Keep up the good work, Nick Lewis.

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        Hello, I've been surfing Code Project for the past two months, since I started my work term for school. I was searching for info, when my boss suggested your site. I got curious and posted a message for help. Then I started reading the posts in the Lounge, and felt like adding my own two cents.... I'm a student at Concordia University, in Montreal, Canada. I am presently studying MIS. Keep it up! Melissa

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          Hello, I've been surfing Code Project for the past two months, since I started my work term for school. I was searching for info, when my boss suggested your site. I got curious and posted a message for help. Then I started reading the posts in the Lounge, and felt like adding my own two cents.... I'm a student at Concordia University, in Montreal, Canada. I am presently studying MIS. Keep it up! Melissa

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          Paul Watson
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          when my boss suggested your site Wooohooo! Well, finally some vindication. You see! All you boss hating, project managment bashing developers. We can be of use sometimes. One of us introduced one of you to CP. :-D One for the management! Your boss sounds totally awesome Melissa, he deserves a hand shake. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa "The greatest thing you will ever learn is to love, and be loved in return" - Moulin Rouge "In other words, the developer is dealing with an elephant, the accountant is dealing with a bunny rabbit." by Stan Shannon - 16/10/2001

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          • P Paul Watson

            when my boss suggested your site Wooohooo! Well, finally some vindication. You see! All you boss hating, project managment bashing developers. We can be of use sometimes. One of us introduced one of you to CP. :-D One for the management! Your boss sounds totally awesome Melissa, he deserves a hand shake. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa "The greatest thing you will ever learn is to love, and be loved in return" - Moulin Rouge "In other words, the developer is dealing with an elephant, the accountant is dealing with a bunny rabbit." by Stan Shannon - 16/10/2001

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            Melissa_N
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            Hee hee hee Yes, he is pretty cool, I agree :)

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            • M Melissa_N

              Hello, I've been surfing Code Project for the past two months, since I started my work term for school. I was searching for info, when my boss suggested your site. I got curious and posted a message for help. Then I started reading the posts in the Lounge, and felt like adding my own two cents.... I'm a student at Concordia University, in Montreal, Canada. I am presently studying MIS. Keep it up! Melissa

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              > Then I started reading the posts in the Lounge So, knowing what you did about us regulars, why did you stick around? :) Was it... A) Our endearing charm? B) Our obvious sensitivy and understanding of other people and their cultural differences? C) Our knowledge of programming? D) Our ability to accurately describe various body cavities? E) Our ability both slam and praise Microsoft and Linux in the same sentence? F) Your deep hidden desire to be able to talk dirty without anyone minding? G) Your agreement with Chris that use of the word gotten had gotten out of hand? :) "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001

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                > Then I started reading the posts in the Lounge So, knowing what you did about us regulars, why did you stick around? :) Was it... A) Our endearing charm? B) Our obvious sensitivy and understanding of other people and their cultural differences? C) Our knowledge of programming? D) Our ability to accurately describe various body cavities? E) Our ability both slam and praise Microsoft and Linux in the same sentence? F) Your deep hidden desire to be able to talk dirty without anyone minding? G) Your agreement with Chris that use of the word gotten had gotten out of hand? :) "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001

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                > use of the word gotten had gotten out of hand? Thanks John, for bringing this up. This has been one of my pet peeves for years. X| Along with misspellings and bad grammar (especially in user documentation). ARGH! Thank you for listening. We now return you to our regularly scheduled broadcast. /ravi "There is always one more bug..." http://www.ravib.com ravib@ravib.com

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                • C Chris Maunder

                  I was just thinking that many of the regulars at Code Project know each other pretty well, but I was wondering about those that have just discovered CodeProject. Are you sitting back, mouth agape, wondering what this is all about, or just watching the inmates in a bemused fashion while you find your way around? In any case, it would be cool if all those who have just signed on droped in to say hi and let us know who you are, where you live and what you do. cheers, Chris Maunder (CodeProject)

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                  Hey there - My name is Essam Ahmed - I used to work with CodeGuru site writing the weekly newsletter and book reviews. I work for a very large multi-national computer outsourcing services company where I develop systems monitoring and reporting solutions, internal administrative tools, and do some technical writing. I like to write as well as code – my published work includes an article for ASPToday.com, some book reviews and articles on theCodeChannel.com, and a bunch of older book reviews on CodeGuru.com. I just finished writing my first book, JScript .NET Programming (see the link in my sig for more details), magazine article (to be published early 2002 in a new magazine), and in-print book review (not yet published). I have been lurking at the CodeProject since it started and congratulate Chris on his success in building a unique on-line community. I used to visit the site about one a week and now visit almost daily to see what’s up in the Lounge. I joined the United Devices research project’s CodeProject.com team on September 18 and have managed to surpass Chris’ points :-D ! (If you don’t know what I’m referring to, visit http://members.ud.com/projects/ for an overview and http://members.ud.com/services/teams/team.htm?id=9F9DA7E6-980C-4E43-81BB-C645BF62C32C for information on the CodeProject.com team). Essam __________________________________________________ Author - JScript .NET Programming - Now Available! http://www.designs2solutions.com/jsnetprg

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                    > Then I started reading the posts in the Lounge So, knowing what you did about us regulars, why did you stick around? :) Was it... A) Our endearing charm? B) Our obvious sensitivy and understanding of other people and their cultural differences? C) Our knowledge of programming? D) Our ability to accurately describe various body cavities? E) Our ability both slam and praise Microsoft and Linux in the same sentence? F) Your deep hidden desire to be able to talk dirty without anyone minding? G) Your agreement with Chris that use of the word gotten had gotten out of hand? :) "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001

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                    Maybe she knows any male posting would be no threat to her sexually or intellectually. Myself not included in that of course:-D ! Roger Allen the :) man

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                      Hey there - My name is Essam Ahmed - I used to work with CodeGuru site writing the weekly newsletter and book reviews. I work for a very large multi-national computer outsourcing services company where I develop systems monitoring and reporting solutions, internal administrative tools, and do some technical writing. I like to write as well as code – my published work includes an article for ASPToday.com, some book reviews and articles on theCodeChannel.com, and a bunch of older book reviews on CodeGuru.com. I just finished writing my first book, JScript .NET Programming (see the link in my sig for more details), magazine article (to be published early 2002 in a new magazine), and in-print book review (not yet published). I have been lurking at the CodeProject since it started and congratulate Chris on his success in building a unique on-line community. I used to visit the site about one a week and now visit almost daily to see what’s up in the Lounge. I joined the United Devices research project’s CodeProject.com team on September 18 and have managed to surpass Chris’ points :-D ! (If you don’t know what I’m referring to, visit http://members.ud.com/projects/ for an overview and http://members.ud.com/services/teams/team.htm?id=9F9DA7E6-980C-4E43-81BB-C645BF62C32C for information on the CodeProject.com team). Essam __________________________________________________ Author - JScript .NET Programming - Now Available! http://www.designs2solutions.com/jsnetprg

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                      Ravi Bhavnani
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                      A voice from the past! Hi, Essam! /ravi "There is always one more bug..." http://www.ravib.com ravib@ravib.com

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                      • P Paul Watson

                        when my boss suggested your site Wooohooo! Well, finally some vindication. You see! All you boss hating, project managment bashing developers. We can be of use sometimes. One of us introduced one of you to CP. :-D One for the management! Your boss sounds totally awesome Melissa, he deserves a hand shake. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa "The greatest thing you will ever learn is to love, and be loved in return" - Moulin Rouge "In other words, the developer is dealing with an elephant, the accountant is dealing with a bunny rabbit." by Stan Shannon - 16/10/2001

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                        One for the management So now it's: Developers 555486 Management 1 ;P - Anders Money talks, but all mine ever says is "Goodbye!"

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                          One for the management So now it's: Developers 555486 Management 1 ;P - Anders Money talks, but all mine ever says is "Goodbye!"

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                          Paul Watson
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                          :laugh: Is 555486 a true random number or a pseudo random number? Hey it is a miracle us managers weedled even one point on a developers website. A blooming miracle! regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa "The greatest thing you will ever learn is to love, and be loved in return" - Moulin Rouge "In other words, the developer is dealing with an elephant, the accountant is dealing with a bunny rabbit." by Stan Shannon - 16/10/2001

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                            :laugh: Is 555486 a true random number or a pseudo random number? Hey it is a miracle us managers weedled even one point on a developers website. A blooming miracle! regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa "The greatest thing you will ever learn is to love, and be loved in return" - Moulin Rouge "In other words, the developer is dealing with an elephant, the accountant is dealing with a bunny rabbit." by Stan Shannon - 16/10/2001

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                            Anders Molin
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                            555486 is the actual count from the lounge. ;) Well, I just closed my eyes, and hit the numeric part of my keyboard. ;) I have to say that in my last job I was actually manager of R&D... I just didn't like all the meetings and that kinda stuff, so now I'm a developer again. :-D - Anders Money talks, but all mine ever says is "Goodbye!"

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                              Maybe she knows any male posting would be no threat to her sexually or intellectually. Myself not included in that of course:-D ! Roger Allen the :) man

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                              Melissa_N
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                              >>Was it... >>A) Our endearing charm? >>B) Our obvious sensitivy and understanding of other people and their cultural differences? >>C) Our knowledge of programming? >>D) Our ability to accurately describe various body cavities? >>E) Our ability both slam and praise Microsoft and Linux in the same sentence? >>F) Your deep hidden desire to be able to talk dirty without anyone minding? >>G) Your agreement with Chris that use of the word gotten had gotten out of hand? I'd have to say that it's defintely a mix of B)-G). As for "A) Our endearing charm?".... that I still have yet to witness :) Hee hee hee Although, I never noticed G)...Hmmm... will look out for that next time :) >>Maybe she knows any male posting would be no threat to her sexually or intellectually. And of course, I KNOW male posting would not a be threat to me, sexually, intellectually, mentally, physically.....and whatever else exists... :) Melissa

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                                >>Was it... >>A) Our endearing charm? >>B) Our obvious sensitivy and understanding of other people and their cultural differences? >>C) Our knowledge of programming? >>D) Our ability to accurately describe various body cavities? >>E) Our ability both slam and praise Microsoft and Linux in the same sentence? >>F) Your deep hidden desire to be able to talk dirty without anyone minding? >>G) Your agreement with Chris that use of the word gotten had gotten out of hand? I'd have to say that it's defintely a mix of B)-G). As for "A) Our endearing charm?".... that I still have yet to witness :) Hee hee hee Although, I never noticed G)...Hmmm... will look out for that next time :) >>Maybe she knows any male posting would be no threat to her sexually or intellectually. And of course, I KNOW male posting would not a be threat to me, sexually, intellectually, mentally, physically.....and whatever else exists... :) Melissa

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                                Paul Watson
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                                As for "A) Our endearing charm?".... that I still have yet to witness Don't go encouraging him now! He may just turn on the n'deer'mints to prove a point. John in a LAS suit, being endearing. :omg: regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa "The greatest thing you will ever learn is to love, and be loved in return" - Moulin Rouge "In other words, the developer is dealing with an elephant, the accountant is dealing with a bunny rabbit." by Stan Shannon - 16/10/2001

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                                  > Then I started reading the posts in the Lounge So, knowing what you did about us regulars, why did you stick around? :) Was it... A) Our endearing charm? B) Our obvious sensitivy and understanding of other people and their cultural differences? C) Our knowledge of programming? D) Our ability to accurately describe various body cavities? E) Our ability both slam and praise Microsoft and Linux in the same sentence? F) Your deep hidden desire to be able to talk dirty without anyone minding? G) Your agreement with Chris that use of the word gotten had gotten out of hand? :) "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001

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                                  Errr, Tony, I would like to use a Life Line please. First the 50/50 split and then I would like to phone Miss Congeniality in Missouri (or is that Missery?). I got me a feeling the answer is being a G, but this dogarn tick just thinks I may'a be wrong. A) Our endearing charm? ROTFLMAO B) Our obvious sensitivy and understanding of other people and their cultural differences? Towlieban? :laugh: Surrrrre C) Our knowledge of programming? Hey I use VB and I still have not been kicked off. No ways can we use this in part of an arguement! D) Our ability to accurately describe various body cavities? What is the fascination with this? E) Our ability both slam and praise Microsoft and Linux in the same sentence? hehe yeah now we are talking. Talent I tell yah! F) Your deep hidden desire to be able to talk dirty without anyone minding? All the bad words are censored :(( G) Your agreement with Chris that use of the word gotten had gotten out of hand? I be gettin out of here before I start using gotten. Verbotten! regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa "The greatest thing you will ever learn is to love, and be loved in return" - Moulin Rouge "In other words, the developer is dealing with an elephant, the accountant is dealing with a bunny rabbit." by Stan Shannon - 16/10/2001

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                                  • R Ravi Bhavnani

                                    > use of the word gotten had gotten out of hand? Thanks John, for bringing this up. This has been one of my pet peeves for years. X| Along with misspellings and bad grammar (especially in user documentation). ARGH! Thank you for listening. We now return you to our regularly scheduled broadcast. /ravi "There is always one more bug..." http://www.ravib.com ravib@ravib.com

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                                    Oh yes Ravi, you are so right. Really the use of language has just degenerated into a free for all of Orwellian proportions. What can we do about it? How can we educate our fellow inverterbrates as to the benefit of the Queen mums English? How on Earth have we gotten to this terrible state... :laugh: Along with misspellings and bad grammar (especially in user documentation) Japanese and Chinese translations are the absolute best. I love reading the instruction manual for new Korean HiFi products. I can myself laughing. "Do not use hair dryer while asleep" or "Does not work under water" :laugh: I think though that we can give leeway to gramatical use on the Lounge, at least. Otherwise we restrict our god given right to be opiniated and vocal about those opinions. Plus we have quite an international group of people on CP, not all of who have English as their primary language. So some forgiveness must be given (and gotten) to bad English. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa "The greatest thing you will ever learn is to love, and be loved in return" - Moulin Rouge "In other words, the developer is dealing with an elephant, the accountant is dealing with a bunny rabbit." by Stan Shannon - 16/10/2001

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                                    • C Chris Maunder

                                      I was just thinking that many of the regulars at Code Project know each other pretty well, but I was wondering about those that have just discovered CodeProject. Are you sitting back, mouth agape, wondering what this is all about, or just watching the inmates in a bemused fashion while you find your way around? In any case, it would be cool if all those who have just signed on droped in to say hi and let us know who you are, where you live and what you do. cheers, Chris Maunder (CodeProject)

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                                      I'm a part-time software developer at Veritas Software and a full-time student. I'm about to graduate - after this quarter, I only have one more class to take! :-D I also run my own little web development company on the side. Jon Sagara

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                                        Well at first I thought "maybe I should write the Ff statement in C++ just for all the simple undeducated folk out there who don't understand the beauty of VB", but then I thought "naaaah, let them suffer and wonder". :-D Actually I happen to do way too much JavaScripting so I know all about the phuketing annoying difference between == and =. The number of times I get caught out by that is beyond belief. Do you have any idea why they implemented C++ and Java like that? Why not just = and not ==? Didn't you miss the "end if". Once again VB shows it's beauty. You don't need an End If if it is one one line. i.e.

                                        If (origin = "southern hemisphere") Then varResult = "joking"

                                        is the same as

                                        If (origin = "southern hemisphere") Then
                                        varResult = "joking"
                                        End If

                                        VB is so beautiful and way smarter than "donkey's work" C++. :-D Yeah, I know I set myself up everytime I mention VB or put up VB code, but hey us enlightened folk can take the jeers and jokes as we sit back and let VB do our work for us. ;P regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa "The greatest thing you will ever learn is to love, and be loved in return" - Moulin Rouge "In other words, the developer is dealing with an elephant, the accountant is dealing with a bunny rabbit." by Stan Shannon - 16/10/2001

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                                        >> Do you have any idea why they implemented C++ and Java like that? 1. assignment is completely different from comparison, 2. a=b evaluates to the value of a after assignment, so you can write funny things like while ( (ch = getch())!=-1) { ... } instead of ch = getch(); while (ch!=-1) { ... ch = getch(); } this is the obvious, final, and ultimate proof that C++ is of course superior to all other languages, including but not limited to programming languages, and all the fuzz is only because some VB mules didn's get it yet. ;P

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                                          Oh yes Ravi, you are so right. Really the use of language has just degenerated into a free for all of Orwellian proportions. What can we do about it? How can we educate our fellow inverterbrates as to the benefit of the Queen mums English? How on Earth have we gotten to this terrible state... :laugh: Along with misspellings and bad grammar (especially in user documentation) Japanese and Chinese translations are the absolute best. I love reading the instruction manual for new Korean HiFi products. I can myself laughing. "Do not use hair dryer while asleep" or "Does not work under water" :laugh: I think though that we can give leeway to gramatical use on the Lounge, at least. Otherwise we restrict our god given right to be opiniated and vocal about those opinions. Plus we have quite an international group of people on CP, not all of who have English as their primary language. So some forgiveness must be given (and gotten) to bad English. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa "The greatest thing you will ever learn is to love, and be loved in return" - Moulin Rouge "In other words, the developer is dealing with an elephant, the accountant is dealing with a bunny rabbit." by Stan Shannon - 16/10/2001

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                                          Ravi Bhavnani
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                                          > the Queen mums English the Queen mum's English > our god given right to be opiniated our God given right to be opinionated You're having fun at my expense, aren't you? :) /ravi "There is always one more bug..." http://www.ravib.com ravib@ravib.com

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