I guess. Except we're all driving around in Teslas and you're Fred Flintstone in your feet powered car :laugh:

I'm surprised no one mentioned Evernote. I switch between Evernote and OneNote depending on my mood. It's a bit of a shame the free version of Evernote only allows you to sync with 2 devices as of last year, but I guess they needed to push people to buy their premium subscription. Two devices is enough for me and you can use the website based version in a pinch. Text files are fine but I really like the convenience and instant sync of cloud-based services and the feature richness of dedicated note taking software such as * image OCR * clipping excerpts from websites, * text to speech * recording voice notes of meetings and transcribing them (not very well) * being able to share notes and photos of whiteboards with co-workers In terms of how easy it is to find stuff again, it isn't the software that determines how easy this is, it more comes down to the discipline I have when capturing things to add appropriate tags to them and file them in the right notebook.

I'm surprised no one mentioned Evernote. I switch between Evernote and OneNote depending on my mood. It's a bit of a shame the free version of Evernote only allows you to sync with 2 devices as of last year, but I guess they needed to push people to buy their premium subscription. Two devices is enough for me and you can use the website based version in a pinch. Text files are fine but I really like the convenience and instant sync of cloud-based services and the feature richness of dedicated note taking software such as * image OCR * clipping excerpts from websites, * text to speech * recording voice notes of meetings and transcribing them (not very well) * being able to share notes and photos of whiteboards with co-workers In terms of how easy it is to find stuff again, it isn't the software that determines how easy this is, it more comes down to the discipline I have when capturing things to add appropriate tags to them and file them in the right notebook.

I delete most of my inbox but keep all of my sent items. Maybe it's part of the role of being a 'software expert' at the company I work at, but I find what I send is far more valuable than what I receive. Usually similar issues may come up in future and I need to track down an explanation I came up with last time. I hope that doesn't make me sound egotistical. :-O

Here's a handy poster from Paul Andrew that clears up the .NET framework version differences. http://blogs.msdn.com/pandrew/archive/2007/11/02/announcing-the-net-framework-3-5-commonly-used-types-and-namespaces-poster.aspx[^]

The point Lowell is trying to make is that simply compiling with exceptions enabled in C++ causes a 5% to 25% performance hit due to the overhead in function calls, stack manipulation and the inability for the compiler to optimize as well as it can without exceptions enabled. Even if not a single exception was thrown in the entire application, the compiler still has to allow for the possibility that one could be, and this makes it's job much harder and results in a loss of optimizations. Personally I think exceptions have their place, sometimes things beyond our knowledge or control occur, eg a memory access violation where the immediate calling code has no idea about what it should do to handle this kind of error or if the operation that failed is important enough to be fatal to the application. If it's just logging a trace log then who cares? If it's writing a bank account transfer then it's a big deal. This exceptional situation needs to be handled at a higher level where the intention of the code is apparent. I don't think undocumented exceptions should be thrown out of libraries though. Libraries should have a strict interface and exceptions should be well documented for all error conditions.

LoL :laugh: SOA are the all singing, all dancing, crap of the world.

The flakey Indian telecommunications infrastructure Vasudevan was talking about sometimes adds an echo of your sig :)