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prog ([personal profile] prog) wrote2008-05-03 12:46 am

Arrgh shut up shut up

Earlier this week I removed Google News from the "News" pull-down on my Safari bookmarks bar. I don't know how long it took for me to notice that visiting that page only made me angry, but I finally did, and so passes the last non-blog-or-bloglike news source I'm willing to visit when bored.



Spent all afternoon into the evening trying to grok localization techniques in Visual C# Express. All the documentation I could find is apparently for the full version of Visual Studio, which includes a command-line program for creating resource files that I apparently lack. Assuming that Microsoft doesn't feel that internationalization is a luxury reserved for people willing to buy the full IDE, I gave up and posted a plea on the MSDN forums. It's crap like this that makes me blargh at non-free development software.



Before that I dropped over $30 at Bob Slate's, and now all my loose paperwork is filed away in new folders, with new staples punched into them as appropriate. That feels good.

[identity profile] ruthling.livejournal.com 2008-05-03 02:23 pm (UTC)(link)
I tweaked my google news page to show me stories I'm following, and the health and sciences sections, so I don't have to see as much political or entertainment crap. not reading any is good, too.

(I should have used this icon)
Edited 2008-05-03 14:23 (UTC)

[identity profile] radtea.livejournal.com 2008-05-03 03:38 pm (UTC)(link)
But the "Science and Tech" section of Google news has all tech and no science, which is teeth-grindingly-annoying in its ownself.

[identity profile] mr-choronzon.livejournal.com 2008-05-03 03:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Who says the full version isn't free? I've got an iso of visual studio 2005, if you want it.