Archive for September, 2006

Texas hold’em

Posted by Edward on September 24th, 2006

Yesterday I played my first game of Texas hold’em and it was quite fun. I usually have this rule never to play a game for money but decided to try it out never the less. Since there was a fixed buy-in I didn’t have to worry about loosing more money than the buy-in.

Translating idioms

Posted by Edward on September 22nd, 2006

This post was actually not going to handle about linguistics. Instead I intended to write about a new MP3 player I bought (my first). As I started formulating the text in my head I got stuck with a Swedish idiom “fallit till föga”. How the H do you translate it and still retain the idiomatic […]

Stubbed toes

Posted by Edward on September 20th, 2006

Don’t you just hate when it happens; suddenly for no apparent reason the threshold is an inch higher than normal or a piece of furniture decides to jump in front of you as you walk by. As I got up this morning I stepped briskly (I’m a morning person) out of bed and headed for […]

An upgrade and some plug-ins

Posted by Edward on September 13th, 2006

So I finally stole some time to polish some kinks out of this site. It is now updated to WordPress 2.0.4. I have also started adding some plug-ins. You may notice the gravatars in the comments, the little name/picture/e-mail thingy at the top of the sidebar, Technorati tags and a syntax highlighter.
I also […]

How to write custom events in C#.Net

Posted by Edward on September 13th, 2006

There are plenty of books on the subject for those who want some deeper insight into events and .Net programming. All books I’ve come across tend to be very verbose. This will be a brief How-To that just presents the rudimentary steps needed to add a custom event to your class.
The necessary steps are:

Create an […]

My personal How-To repository

Posted by Edward on September 13th, 2006

If you are anything like me, i.e. has a terrible memory, you might want to keep a recepie of a common task written down somewhere. I find that I frequently forget how to do simple things like declaring custom events properly. And when I need a refresher course I grab a book or surf the […]