Mark Treadwell

For a period of time, I have access to both an MSDN and a TechNet subscription. Both offer Microsoft software for download. I wondered what the similarities and differences were between the two sub…

The Google Print Beta is available here. Publishers and libraries seem to hate it. I wonder how much more effective/different it is from CiteSeer.

Actually, it was an implementation of technology that just got me extremely irate. I was so upset that I just left my purchases there and went over to the nearby Lowe's ... but I am getting ahead o…

Update: I have started a series of posts which will build towards implementing as full-featured design surface as I can manage. The series begins here.

While refining my unhandled exception handler code, I wandered into this question. What is the real difference between the following three statements:

There are few of us who at one time or another have not been admonished to "mind our P's and Q's," or in other words, to behave our best. Oddly enough, "mind your P's and Q's" had nautical beginnin…