April 2004 Entries
I had nearly forgotten that we're approaching a major milestone this weekend - the 40th anniversary of the first BASIC program! Happy birthday, BASIC!
I only remembered the occasion because the AP Newswire did a story on the anniversary and they wanted to get a quote from someone at Microsoft about BASIC. They wanted Bill Gates, but they got me - too bad for them! Anyway, I had a very pleasant chat with the reporter about BASIC and Microsoft and such. Although I see where he's coming from with the idea that BASIC is no longer with us - certainly not in...
More funny stories from the old days.
Some basic information (if you'll excuse the pun!).
Some of it will work, some of it won't.
Check out the great new feature!
I haven't always thought that, though.
I generally eschew using my blog to ask for help for stuff, especially since I have pretty good resources at work, but this one has got me stymied: I've got a bunch of old 5.25 floppy disks from the old days that I'd like to convert and get rid of. For a while, our test lab had a machine that had a drive but I was too slow in taking advantage of it and now it's gone. I went down to RePC to look at picking up an old drive to stick in my machine temporarily, but looking at the...
I'm in talks with K-Tel about them.
I won't be able to go after all. Bummer.
Truth is stranger than fiction.
One of the reason things have been slow around here is that I was preparing a presentation yesterday to the VB MVPs yesterday at the MVP Global Summit. Since we've been talking about the VB 8.0 language for quite a while now (and we've had several semi-public releases), there wasn't a lot new to talk about so we just discussed the new language features in more detail. It reminded me yet again that I need to get more detail on some of the new features up here and out in public.
My only regret was that I ended up missing most of the...
Just can't get away from it.