New pictures are up of my XMas tree! Wohoo! If you think this is a sad excuse for a post, you’re absolutely correct. Just haven’t had too much spare time as of late. Not only am I busy with life, but Guitar Hero and Portal are calling to me! Kind of went on a videogame [...]
Subsidization is, effectively, when you pay for something, and part of the cost of what you’re getting actually gets put towards a different use altogether. Generally, subsidization costs are used to expense something that wouldn’t be possible otherwise. For example, gas tax subsidization is used to help build and maintain roadways, which are VERY expensive. [...]
It’s a tumultuous time for music lovers nowadays. Personally, this year was for me the costliest of my life, music-wise (probably commiserate with my increased ability to bring home the bacon). I travelled to New York City twice for Live Earth and Farm Aid, I saw several $100+ concerts, and generally have gone to excess [...]
Here are 5 great new albums to check out: Tim Armstrong – A Poet’s Life Bloc Party – A Weekend in the City Finger Eleven – Them Vs. You Vs. Me Placebo – Meds Static-X – Cannibal Edit: Added a 6th, due to how much it ultimately rocks: Dethklok – The Dethalbum
shirt.woot.com is an interesting business. They are the t-shirt sales wing of woot.com, a business whose entire goal is to sell exactly one item a day. Not entirely unexpectedly, shirt.woot.com sells a single shirt a day, and once they run out of a predetermined amount, they’re sold out (well, not exactly, but they definitely don’t [...]
In C#, the following two pieces of try-catch code rethrowing are not equivalent. Don’t do the first one; the second one is where it’s at. try{…} catch (exception ex) { throw ex; } try{…} catch { throw; } This is because when you rethrow the exception, you’re actually creating a new exception, and the stack [...]
