Keywords: Open Office, MSDOS line endings, a .txt file opens in Open Office Calc
I noted the following odd peculiarity recently. When opening a plain text file with the .txt extension using Open Office either on Windows with the MSDOS \r\n “CRLF” line endings or on Unix with Unix \n “LF” line endings, Open [...]
Archive for May, 2008
Open Office and Plain Text Files
Posted in Weird Errors on May 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sending Email With Attachments in .Net
Posted in C#, Programming, Weird Errors on May 13, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Keywords: .Net, Email, Attachments, Where are all the open file handles coming from?
Sending an Email message in .Net is easy using the System.Net.Mail namespace. Just make sure that if you use attachments, you dispose of them when you’re done. The reason is that creating and adding an attachment from a filename silently opens [...]
Against Customer Loyalty Cards
Posted in Family on May 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Keywords: Grocery Store Cards, Preferred Member Cards, Junk in my Wallet
I’m turning over a new leaf this week.
Lately I’ve been concerned about reducing my weekly “discretionary footprint”; that is, the amount of money I spend every week at coffee shops, convenient stores, and fast food restaurants. So I went to the grocery store [...]
