Maybe aliens are about 30 light years away, and sending New Wave music back at us in an attempt to communicate? If so, let Daniel Miller know, he'll sign them immediately :)

I'm getting more and more convinced that some people either have really bad luck with electronics, or they give off some electromagnetism that damages them. I have friend that seems to have the same problem. I have a Lumia 928 and it's never crashed. I reboot occasionally because I get nervous that I might have problems, because it's been so long. Otherwise, my reboots have been related to updates to 8.1. My Surface Pro 2 hasn't been perfect on the other hand. No Windows-type crashes, but definitely hardware related things. Every once in a while it won't pick up the WiFi or the touch screen will go wonky. That has always been solved by restarting though. The Metro apps (screw them, all call them what I want) are sh*t. I've pretty much given up on them, but I still use Mail and Calendar, because of the awesome synchronization -- when it works. Here are some of the problems: * The Mail app sometimes doesn't show specific email messages and Microsoft suggested solutions didn't work. (The messages appear right off when you go to Outlook.com.) Beyond the basic first tier level they basically are dismissive and want you to go away. * Mail and Calendar apps sometimes lose the connection to the Microsoft account and won't get it back. Restarting usually fixes it, but I had to reset to factory defaults on one occasion. * Music app is clunky yes, but used to work, somewhere along the line the shuffle function broke. Now it's kind of random. Whatever song plays first plays every third song, so you get song #1, song #n1, song #n2, song #1, song #n3, song #n4, song #1, ... I haven't taken the time to investigate, but it doesn't seem like it gets your entire playlist. I use the Windows Media Player now. * News app used to be awesome. On WiFi I'd let it sync and download the articles (I have it set for offline use). Then on the plane I could read the news. Now even though it downloads it says it's offline on every article and I cannot use it.

Mark_Wallace wrote: They've got the best Random Function Distributor that I've ever seen used for a UI. I would say the whole UI is a rand crap generator. :rolleyes: Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.

You know, I actually like it. I can keep track of things going on at work, browse the web, and control the Xbox. Read PDFs without recompiling the source code to the universe every time. Update office files, ect. It's just the silver light thing that has me annoyed. Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.

I suggest working through the highest priority items (or maybe just the items you feel like doing), slowly and carefully, commenting/documenting more than usual, for 8.00 hours a day. Nobody (rational) is going to fault you for not getting overwhelming work done when you already quit. You want to make sure your final work is your best. Once you are gone, you become the perfect person for your managers to blame for their own mistakes.

Oh, NM... I see his issue now.

Youre welcome With respect, I must disagree. A quick look at middle management in just about any corporation shows that the dodo not only survived, it's reproducing in record numbers. Christopher Duncan

Another Twin cities CPian here. So far everyone I know is ok. Still waiting to hear from some folks at my old employer, but most of them would have been in the area before 6pm.

leckey wrote: and the mall people What pray tell is a “Mall”? I don’t think I’ve been in one of those places in years, thank goodness With respect, I must disagree. A quick look at middle management in just about any corporation shows that the dodo not only survived, it's reproducing in record numbers. Christopher Duncan

Thanks whitesky, but I need it to go the other way PDF to HTML. That looks like it only creates PDF.

Open a JS based framework? :doh:

Joe Woodbury wrote: this is a problem airlines invented When what appears to be the Airlines own PR firm admits there are serious issues its seems pretty cut and dry. Thankfully, I will never travel any where I can't go via my truck. I'd love to help, but unfortunatley I have prior commitments monitoring the length of my grass. :Andrew Bleakley:

Jerry Hammond wrote: Is that a promise? It sounds like a promise. Nah, more like an observation after 21 years in the industry! :laugh: Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic

I *knew* someone was following me around!

Fixed cheers, Chris Maunder CodeProject.com : C++ MVP

Fixed cheers, Chris Maunder CodeProject.com : C++ MVP

I just did the math and that stuff ended 13 years ago. It was the end of a dream for me (or so I thought). I had to walk away (well walk as I drug a leg behind me) from something larger than life into a life that was larger than I was. I think those times prepared me for what was to come and when it arrived I never looked back. Until I really thought about what you had typed I had forgotten about those times. It's weird. I'm a father of 6 years and a husband of 12 and for me that's when life really began.