Huzzah! I love Extension Methods :)

This one I wrote today will take a delegate or lambda and use it to automatically create a delimited list from an IEnumerable of T:

public static string Delimit(this IEnumerable enumerable, Func toStringConverter, string delimiter ( Read more... )

I like reading newspaper headlines and adding parenthesis and punctuation. Today in the Metro:
"2.2m 'out of work' in jobs. Carnage!"
"Tebbit faces the 'sack over Euro' boycott"
(This one needs no alteration:) "Jacko tour threat"
"Ferrari in. Quit threat!"

I was cold-called by a company called Banking Solutions Bureau yesterday, offering to reclaim all my bank charges plus 8% interest for £49. I said I'd think about it, and took their number. Then I went to read up online. The first thing to do is to request a list of charges made since July 2001. You're meant to do this by post, according to ( Read more... )

A couple of weekends ago we went to Tansley car boot where I picked up a couple of drum machines for £15, without power supplies or manuals: An Alesis SR-16 and a Zoom RhythmTrak RT-123. A fair price, I thought, for running the risk that they might both be knackered. I actually made an offer at £15 for both, instead of £10 and £6 respectively ( Read more... )

Do dyslexic pavers make patois?

HSBC make me LOL sometimes ( Read more... )

I'm glad we didn't go to the cinema to see You Don't Mess With The Zohan, though I'm a little disappointed that we wasted £4 and 90 minutes of our time. I think they wanted to make it as funny as Zucker, Abrahams & Zucker would have, but failed in a truly epic fashion ( Read more... )

In the interview for my last job I was asked to write a solution to the FizzBuzz test. The test is to see how you think about code and whether you have a logical approach to writing it ( Read more... )

Washed car today. Still filthy, but now black with silver wheels instead of brown with brown wheels.

Got a phone call from the Job Centre. I think those guys must smoke something strong - they said they had a nude eel that might help me find work.