Greetings from Ireland, I discovered CodeProject well over a year ago, when I was learning C++. Then the company decided they wanted me to do (yaaawwwwwn) ASP, so I changed job - now I use Delphi :confused:. The articles used to be realy interesting, but I have absolutely no interest in all things .NET. But, the lounge is definitely the place to visit when feeling a little bored/stressed. Laurence We aim to make the complex simple, and the simple idiot-proof; we just don't aim too good.

>...good Zambezi lager... Oh, that brings back memories. My brother used to work in Botswana and the wonderful thing about the game parks was that you could wake up in the morning to find an elephant footprint right outside your tent that was not there the night before :-D Even though the cities in Ireland are not largge (max 1.2 million), people wonder what I get from going hiking in the mountains (well, hills anyway). But, Africa has a special appeal - the smell/scent is so different from anywhere else I have been (Canada, New Zealand, Australia). It is not a matter of how many vacation days, more how much can I afford to spend :(