Bill Sempf

Remember Babelfish?  I sure do.  It was one of the first online translation engines, right about when Jade was asking me to translate Americash Mall into Spanish.

Guess what.  It's still out there.  And it is GOOD.

http://babelfish.altavista.com

AltaVista was one of the first, and second only to Yahoo in the early years, search engines.  Glad to know they are still kickin.

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1 bag frozen Trader Joe's artichokes
1 6 oz tube of Cheve
1/2 cup of shredded cheddar cheese
1/2 cup of shredded Parmeasan cheese
2 oz Cream Cheese
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp garlic powder
1/2 tsb red pepper flakes
dash of Worchester sauce
optional can of Trader Joe's Crab

Boil the artichokes in enough water to cover until soft.  Evacuate onto a cutting board and chop up.  Warm the cheve and cream cheese in the microwave until soft.  Mix together all ingredients and put in a shallow dish.  Warm in microwave until the cheddar melts.  Eat with yummy birdseed crackers.

Just had another article posted to MSDN, on Productivity with Visual Basic 2005.

I have constant wars with other .NET programmers about C# versus VB.  Not surewhat to make of it - really it is just a personal choice.  There is no difference in the final product.  I'll just say this.  I have 4 active projects in C# and 7 in VB.  When I work in VB, I never get compiler errors. When I work in C#, I usually have to compile 5-10 times before I get around to finding the runtime problems.  Sloppy coding?  Maybe.  But for me doesn't it make more sense to keep using the compiler that gives me fewer problems?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnvs05/html/VB05Prod.asp