I have been tooling around with C# and I am loving it. In high school I took C++ and we used Borland with special libraries that were basically crap. So some of what I learned is very wrong and I can use very little of it. One thing it did teach me is control structures and variables and so on. That knowledge has helped me to learn PHP as quickly as I did and what looks like a quick study in C# too. C# seems to have the same structuring and usage as C++, but that ease of programming that Visual Basic was known for. Knowing only how to do only a few things in VS I was able to create a Windows application that used a slider to adjust the opacity of the application and you were able to open a file and calculate the MD5 hash of that file. Very basic, but something for a project I was working on.

One question I do have is, will all programs I create use a lot of memory? Is it all of the C# base classes in the application or what? This application was about 40kb and it used 14mb physical and 13mb virtual, seems a bit high for such a small application.

While I wish I could say it had to do with my recent interview to Sweet Briar it does not, I have not heard anything from them yet. One piece of good news is that the crossbars that were lost/stolen from my L desk will be replaced for FREE with free shipping. I couldn’t believe it, I was calling to find out how much they would be and she says, we will cover those under your warranty. Then she says, I do want to let you know that it will take about 7 days to reach you from the West Coast. I was still trying to process the FREE with FREE shipping part. Now I just need to get my Dell 1800FP power supply replaced and I will be in business.

Update: I have contacted John at Dell who commented below. Since it is Friday night I do not expect to hear back until Monday, but to respond to the comment it was not the power cable, I tried 7 different cables. Hopefully something can be resolved without me paying anything. I paid $400 for this monitor, around $70 less than Dell was selling it for and I feel that if the time from the manufacturing date falls below the time for the warranty it should be fixed regardless of the warranty not being transferred

The other good news is that there is a large 6 pointer that has been visiting my yard and this saturday when rifle season comes in he will be hanging in a barn.