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September 2005 Entries

I saw this and just thought it was pretty cool. I'm sure most of you've seen it; but for those who haven't, an Italian programmer found the remains of an ancient villa while looking around his home town. I believe this is the correct map. Funny thing is, it's about 3000 feet from a non-imaged area (well, for now, anyway). Luca Mori, the programmer who stumbled upon this find, is starting up a new site, CyberArcheologist.net. Best of luck! Now, if only the US had something as cool... Actually, I'm...

Ya know, I'm not trying to start any holy wars or anything, but I keep getting aggravated with some VB code I have to maintain. First off, my biggest complaint is the way VB handles imports. A lot are assumed, but some aren't. I've even seen the same code transition to another machine and have it not work. I don't really know the rules behind it, but it sucks. Second, the Microsoft.VisualBasic namespace needs to just die a horrible death. Do VB-ers not understand that it simply exists for backwards...