Here is a bit of a follow-up to my previous post about Google and privacy.
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I have had a bit of a trouble believing Google’s “Don’t be evil” motto, unofficial or not. I don’t trust companies or governments to do things in my best interest, because that is not in their best interests. I left Gmail because of seeing ads for what was in my email. It is not the ads, but the idea of a company essentially reading my email. I’ll leave Microsoft’s hotmail the second I see this happen. I am not that concerned of my searches being tracked, but there is a point where that will go over the line and we are hitting it.
I am laying out the scope of a learning project idea. In my day job I sell software that communicates with serial ports (RS-232c). So I want to learn more about how to use VB.NET for serial port communications. I came across Richard L. Grier’s website (HardandSoftware.net) and wanted to give him a thanks for a lot of good references on his site. His terminal application (see download page) is a good starting place for what I am looking to learn.
- My sister remembered to give me a copy of a photo that shows my great grandmother and family, from when she was 4 (110 yrs ago). Interesting #
- My son did great in his basketball game today! Got a couple steals and rebounds! Basketball at 7 is the best. #
- Just about a week left in my VB class. DB programming (LINQ) is the last week and we touched it just a bit this week. #
- When it rains it pours. It seems one good day gets me one bad day… Or it could just be of my own making. #
On my wife’s blog (2SecondsFaster.com) we put up a “Saturday Mixer” and it is a weekly “you take over the conversation” post. As a joke, I thought I would put the post rules up in VB.NET code. Below is my code for a simple Console App.
Code Snippet
- Module saturdayMixer
- Sub Main()
- Dim saturdayMixer As String
- Console.WriteLine("Do you know the rules? (y or n)")
- saturdayMixer = Console.ReadLine()
- ' saturdayMixer = Console.ReadLine()
- If saturdayMixer = "y" Then
- Console.WriteLine("Welcome to the Saturday Mixer!" & ControlChars.CrLf _