Here is a bit of a follow-up to my previous post about Google and privacy.
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.
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.