Winston Churchill was indeed PM for all the "we're going to kick some Nazi rear-end" bits of the war, but Neville Chaimberlain was PM of Great Britain during the "maybe we can pretend this isn't happening" bits of the war. Off topic? I ran out of Adderol....try writing code this way and not leaving orphaned events littered all over the enterprise that need handled.... :sigh:

I like this question because, as I'm sure is the case for many of us, it reminds me what I've accomplished and allows me a moment's prideful reflection on my greatest achievement. Five years ago, I was a grossly under-paid Technical Writer for a private university. I was doing a lot of print media, a touch of multi-media, and a fair bit of HTML. The HTML I'd been playing with for about 5 years by then. Five years ago, I was a year into a three-year program in IT at the university where I worked. I was taking classes for no other reason than they were free and being in school would stave off repayment of student loans from previous study of mechanical engineering. Five years ago, was one year before taking my first intrductory programming class as part of that IT program. When I got to that class, I found I had a knack for it. Even with that most remedial class making simple console outputs in C, I could see that I had a knack for it, a thirst to learn more, and an ability to drive towards it unlike anything I'd found before. Five years ago, was one year before launching me on a three-year ride of round the clock study, moving onto an office-automation development team at the university, becoming one of two lead developers on that team, and finally, last year, breaking out on my own as an Independant Software Developer specializing in web-delivered Office Automation intranet tools. There's still a lot to learn, but then again, there always is.... Perfect! Remember kids: don't get eliminated! Jim

What's the problem? Some people get thier buzz-words and are off to the races... No matter, as long as *you* know what you're doing, right? Jim What's the AJAX-keyboard-shortcut for re-undo?

At present, I live in the past, but I have big big plans and am eagerly preparing for the day when I will, at long last, be able to live in the future. ...not that silly SciFi Channel, time-machine kind of future, with all the robot totalitarian dictators with shaved eyebrows wearing chrome capes and shirtsleves that are too tight and evidence that mankind blew himself up with an atomic bomb in an SUV, thus allowing the computers to wrest control of the planet. ...not the future with all those foolhardy flying cities with upside-down cars on HabitTrail roadways and octopus scientists wearing evening gowns who don't speak and twelve-year-old princesses who govern from within vast chambers sparsely decorated with Danish furniture from the 1970's and invariably these rooms all have laquered black floors buffed to a shine that apparently can only be attained in the ultra-future. ...I'm certainly not writing about the future with war-loving discourteous aligators captaining inter-galactic battleships shaped like Danish table lamps from the 1970's while growling out ultimatums of impending death and destruction over a big-screen TV that just happens to be tuned to the Angry Lizard Channel. No no no....I mean the future where I have a gold-plated LearJet and my hobbes are recreational bribery and driving motorscooters in Italy. Good night, Jim Does this thing have a SpellChecker?

No...I was at first referring to my folks not getting me immunized against the communicable viral infection of Cigarette Smoking....I kinda wish they had. My father smoked when I was a child, but just up and cold-turkey quit one day when it pissed him off. I wish I knew how he did that. I picked up smoking 20 years ago with no influence or help from pops; it was all peer pressure and the appearance of being "cool" that got me started. For the past ten years or more, quitting is something I've wanted to do and tried to do. Despite some huge personal hurdles overcome in my life, quitting smoking has proved the most difficult thing I've ever faced. Odd when contrasted against some massive lessons of personal capability and strength of character in a number of life-and-death situations, that something as seemingly-petty as cigarettes would be my most daunting challenge..... Oh well...onwards and upwards, I continue my life's stuggle.... Jim

pmartin wrote:

I avoid smoking like the plague, because it pretty much is

It's that bit in bold that caught my eye and I was fooling around with you about. Oh, and that's Sargeant Literal....I work for a living. What boat are our parents in together? The divorced after 30 years and Dad remarried into a whole new, more peferrable family and Mom is off with her Liberated Lady freinds kyaking and swinging from trees in Costa Rica boat? Your parents too? ...ahhhh Family Dynamics....wadda ya gonna do....?? Jim

Smoking is pretty much like The Plague, eh? Smoking is a viral infection? Huh..?? I never would have guessed... ...I guess my parents didn't get me immunized for that one. At least I'm free of Small Pox; that's good enough for me. That statement presents another odd point for consideration. When The Plagues swept through Euprope in the...what? 1300's? 1400's or so?...tobacco was not yet introduced to Europe. I'd have to research that to know for sure, and I don't have the time, so I won't. Back to my code...let's see where was I...? Ah yes...! DataDisaster ddBigMess = new DataDisaster(); ddBigMess.RenderDataModelUseless(this._dsImportantData); Good night Jim

I would reckon that depends on who the customer is.... Example: If you are a permanent employee of the company and a part of the "family" and it's all a cozy in-house relationship between you, the users, and the software, then it could be fun to put something in there. Example: If you are an independent consultant building software that will be in the proprietary ownership of your customer, then it's not yours to play with, and it would be rather unprofessional to put a "fun" easer egg in the application. Ultiamtely, it depends on the culture in which you are working, contractor or otherwise, as to what's appropriate. I liked the first answer to this question, the bichin-est mark you can place on an appilcation is that it works flawlessly. Validate everything in every concievable way, make sure the interface is seamless, leaveing no question from the users, and make sure everything fits and matches the audience. In other words, the best easter-egg is no gaps, no surprises, no user-work-arounds, and no confusion. Hope that helps... :o) jim out!

Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:

Is it a violation of copyright if you directly use an image on another site with img tag? e.g. site A uses image from site B as

Oh for the love of whatever it is you worship!! How hard is it to right-click the image you want to steal, and save it, then load it into your site with your own tag?? It's bad enough you're stealing someone's intellectual property, in the form of the image, do you have to steal thier tag, and clever file system structure as well? jim.visible = false;

Hi. I hope someone here can answer an odd question to help me solve an odd problem. I've got a form that is to take in a list of id numbers, pasted from a column in an Excel sheet, and find each one's email alias, then display the results. To avoid the hassles of keeping the lists square if there are any "not found" results, I'm calling the database for each id number, then outputting the results into a label. The problem is, when there are only a few, like one or ten, to look up, the time for the extra overhead is no big deal, but when I run the column from the Excel sheet I was given as a sample, there are 289 ids to look up and the page doesn't re-render in the browser for about 20 seconds. That ain't no good.... I've got the list parsed out and the whole thing working "normally" but I need something better. So what I would like the page to do is, get one record, find it, render the page with that result, then get the next, display it on the next line, and so on until done with a nice message for results about how many were searched and how many were found. This way the user would have something to look at while the search was going on and I'd learn something new and cool about PostBack and maybe ViewState. Any ideas? Thanks, Jim