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They always amused me :-P

I LOVE Binary watches myself.  It  is definitely one of my favorite Geek Gadgets, along with my Location Earth Dog Tag.

http://www.earthbounddog.com/

I've got the silver backed blue binary desk clock right in front of me, and the network admin has the red led over clear red plastic one on his desk. Watches would be cool, and I'm always a fan of the plush microbes ;D

Love how they promise full refunds if you don't get returned to earth... sounds a little sketchy to me.

*steals your binary desk clock* 

hehe, i wish :P

svickn:

Love how they promise full refunds if you don't get returned to earth... sounds a little sketchy to me.

- As far as I know, they have not had to give one refund yet.

I see binary watch made the ranks for a prize this month, too bad you'll need to not be the grand prize winner Steffi ;)

Also see you in the running this time David, surprised you don't have a curve :O

Oh crap! So I can't win anything this month?

Awww tough luck, I got a cool robotic dog on his way to my house :D hehe.

It is very cool that David listens to our suggestions though!

You can still win as far as I know!

 I was just saying that to get the binary watch you'll have to get the 1st place prize, not the grand prize this time around, the grand prize is a crazy espresso maker.

David'll correct me if I'm wrong I'm sure.

 I thought I may have understood badly since I couldn't find any rules written about the fact that one cannot win the next month after he has the grand prize!

This month's grand prize is also awesome :D David has a really good taste in prizes!

Have you ever won anything yourself? :-)

We got into community credit around the same time, you and I. I relocated my blog from hosting I was paying for to geekswithblogs.net and started getting the community credit spam when posting, so I checked it out. I think David has a great thing here, because everyone benefits from the addition of competition to community participation. I was planning on getting more involved in technical blogging, and perhaps even speaking at local DNUGs soon, now I have an additional measurement to keep me accountable for my goals.

I won 5th last month, the pointer kite :)

My aim is to keep an active blog with series on .NET topics, mostly VB. I'm finishing up a custom snippet series, and plan on new series for this month and coming months. The community has already assisted me in great ways, and I'm glad for the opportunity to give back.

Sounds, interesting regarding what you will be doing here :-) Perhaps, if you are quite good in C#, you can translate the code to C# too since VB.NET and C# are the most two languages used. This is an idea which just came up my mind hehe.

Right now, I am mostly dealing with SharePoint and other technologies I am reading about and putting my hands in. Soonish, I will be talking more in C# as soon as I am going to start work on my two big projects this year.

• I have to do a shopping cart in C# with the front-end PHP. PHP is not really my favourite language, but It's an experiment I am curious about.
• In a month or two I gotta think of a big project for the end of my Higher National Diploma. I'm thinking along the lines of a music community. But I'm open to more ideas.

The CLR keeps the languages closely related, but the IDEs and the language teams' work keep them uniquely different. If you are trying to familiarize yourself with the languages, it can be rewarding to translate from one to the other yourself. Personally, until I get more familiar with codezone and other source hosting, I'm trying to limit my source as much as possible. I do have the final post for my snippet series ready, but I need to figure out how to host the code somewhere instead of having it inline in the blog.

I think we've sufficiently hijacked this thread.

Discussion boards are here to discuss stuff

What I'm amazed of is the change in subject  from clocks to this! hehe

Yeah, this thread has definitely migrated in topic , but that is okay.  I have seen many a thread hijacked to a much greater degree.

It is good to see people givng back to the development community.  There is definitely a great community that works well as people give back and you are definitely doing that.  Kudos to you.   What is your new series going to be on?

For the series I know I had an idea but I should have written it down. However, I want to write some articles about random other things, like classes that don't require instantiation versus singleton classes, creating communities not congregations, and I'm taking my first peeks at VS2010 and the new VB.NET soon.

I will most probably have a series on ribbon creation or at least a post about it, since I'm trying to learn more about it and if I have trouble finding the answers then someone else is probably having trouble too.

Also I wanted to go over some basics, I really want to make some beginner's materials out of the new smallBasic (I haven't played with it, but if it is as friendly as they say) or out of Ruby. I want to focus on heuristics and metaphorical comparisons, to illustrate how programming is practically already engrained in our system. VB is a friendly language, but the complete IDE and all of the overhead bring too much complication to absolute beginner materials imo.