I didn't publish most of my blog posts to CP for the simple reason that I didn't think the posts would pass as articles, mainly because they are rather snippets (e.g. http://www.hardcodet.net/2010/02/blocking-httpwebrequest-getresponse-for-silverlight[^]). However, seeing there's a dedicated section for this kind of content on CP: What would you think about having the option to publish our posts to Tips/Tricks section instead? Cheers, Philipp

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This is the second time I read people comparing to Clacton to nothingness. Oh my... :doh: Luckily, we're a few guys, we have a nice garden, the beach and a car. In theory, it should be possible to survive these two weeks without dying of boredom. If there's nothing else there, the area must be swarming with bored girls, too, right? ;)

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The guys I'm travelling with are attending a seminar in Colchester - it's not that we're *that* excited about the location. However, the course only takes two weeks - after that, we'll move for sure :) Edit: Is it really that bad?

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I'll go into one of those shops and hope for a decent recommendation. Guess they won't throw in a netbook for a one-time buy for a month's worth of online time (cheap ba****ds) ;)

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We're in Clacton-on-Sea which looks quite crowded. I looked at the coverage tests of some of the providers - fortunately, we'll be fine. Cheers!

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You're a big help - thanks again :)

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Thanks for the tips and the link! :) Buying the thing online is not an option anyway, at least for Orange: They require you to have had a resident address in the UK for three years - that's about three years too much. I guess we'll do as your telling and just look for one of those shops. We'll be spending the first two weeks in Clacton on Sea near Colchester. It's not exactly a metropole down there, but I hope we'll be fine :)

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Thanks for the link, Richard. There's only two hotels in the area that offer a hotspot, so I'll have to pass on that one. That's the nice thing with the dongle - in theory, it should work pretty much anywhere on the island.

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It's the latter, and we have an appartment without access to the interwebs, so we'll just have to hope it'll work. Otherwise, I'll have to live in the nearest Starbucks.

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Thanks, Henry Orange offers upgrade plans, which aren't too expensive. I'll have to consider that one (or make sure that my mates don't download too much pr0n through my connection) ;)

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We'll have a nice appartment at the coast, so there's probably no McD around (although I have no idea about the fast food density in the UK). But nice knowing - we'll sure hit a few citites along the way :)

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Tom Deketelaere wrote:

Drive around looking for an unsecured wireless??

...which would probably be close to a pub, resulting in costs of 50 pounds per online session, paid in beer ;)

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Hello UK-CPians Me and a few colleagues will be spending a while in the UK, and being able to get online with the notebook is rather essential (for the first two weeks, we'll have an appartment in Clacton-on-Sea near Colchester and I'll be working part time from there). I thought of buying one of those USB sticks with a months worth of online time. With Orange, this would add up to 50 pounds, which seems to look like a great offer with no strings attached (makes me somewhat suspicious): Orange Dongle Whether I'll be able to just walk into an Orange shop, get me the thing and walk out of there is another issue, but I hope we'll be fine (some of us have EU passports). Anybody having experience with these things, or even a better suggestion? Thanks for your advice Philipp

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That's a better choice. Thanks, Chris :-) (The download link in the announcement linked to that one: http://www.codeproject.com/script/Associate/Images/CodeProjectAssociate_200.png[^].) Minor thing: The top level cropping may have been a bit too harsh - the blurring on the top appears to have been chopped off.

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Hi Pete I'm currently running it through Photoshop - guess pretty much every one who owns a blog with background other than white will have to run through this task - so why not offer a proper logo in the first place? It's not a critical thing, but still, it takes time and is causes a loss of quality as the logo has nicely blurred edges. And as a spoiled WPF guy, I sure do like my stuff pretty :) Cheers, Philipp

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Nice one! Now we need a PNG with a transparent background. Pretty please :) Cheers, Philipp

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+1 :)

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I'm not sure whether this is the appropriate forum, but I thought I'd rather post this before this author's ratings are off to a *really* bad start. Both downloads seem to be broken so one should probably unpublish it until the issue is fixed: WPF/xaml NotifyIcon and Taskbar popup window[^] Cheers, Philipp

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My guess is they are just are proud of their work. And they should be, even if it sucks - after all, it tells something about being passionate. That they are borderline self-confident to the point of being suicidal is another story, however ;)

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They'll downvote once, which is less significant (other than 4-5 downvotes in a row). I think downvotes are a rather spontaneous thing and your typical downvoters won't have created a pool of accounts in advance by the time they write their next article. Well besides the pathological ones, maybe...

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