Why Microsoft, and I, suck today. Mostly Microsoft though.

OriginalGriff

It's a bugger when that happens - you get so focussed on one idea that you don't think to take a step back and look at the problem from the outside. Sometimes, I wish I still smoked, to give me just such a step away from the code face. Not enough to actually take it up again, though...

Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water

Henry Minute

Roger Wright wrote:

I have a lady friend who owns a Belgian Husky

I wasn't aware that Luc had a sore throat. I hope he feels better soon.

Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.

Henry Minute

Well, she was a big girl!

Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.

BobJanova

Wander down to the water cooler/coffee machine and get yourself a drink, and wander around with that for five minutes to think. You can take 'smoking breaks' without a cancer stick.

OriginalGriff

I know what you mean - and it doesn't affect me, since I work from home anyway - but wandering around with a drink in your hand is not seen as "useful work" in most companies, while giving yourself cancer is. Strange, but true.

Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water

Rob Grainger

I've not found that - most employers will be quite considerate. Especially if you mention you're giving up smoking. Of course, you could always say: "So I'm allowed a break to smoke but not for water/other reasons. Can I have that in writing?". I suspect they'll see the light very quickly, for legal reasons.

Henry Minute

I am aware of bitmap headers of various descriptions and am pretty sure that this GARBAGE is not a bitmap header (or at least not one that I have seen before). Just for you I have gone to the trouble and expense of taking time out of my busy schedule :zzz: and writing and including in my application a Hexdumper as well as the image display.

0010 - FF FF FF FF 42 69 74 6D - 61 70 20 49 6D 61 67 65 ÿÿÿÿBitmap Image
0020 - 00 50 61 69 6E 74 2E 50 - 69 63 74 75 72 65 00 01 .Paint.Picture..
0030 - 05 00 00 02 00 00 00 07 - 00 00 00 50 42 72 75 73 ...........PBrus
0040 - 68 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 00 00 20 54 00 00 42 4D h......... T

This is followed by the standard "BM" header.

Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.

ghle

Now THAT made me laugh! :beer:

Gary

AspDotNetDev

Seems you are right, though it's not exactly garbage. Seems the image has been OLE wrapped (Object Linking and Embedding).

Somebody in an online forum wrote:

INTJs never really joke. They make a point. The joke is just a gift wrapper.

KP Lee

Congratulations on being self-reliant. You dinosaur you! (I'm a fossel too.) PS I know I'm killing English, just too lazy to look it up.

Henry Minute

If I don't want it, it's garbage! :-D Didn't think of OLE. Good shot sir!

Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.