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{ Monthly Archives } August 2005

Nullable Value Types in C#

One of the smaller, but more useful features in the new .Net 2.0 was going to be Nullable Value types. Basically allowing you to have a null int will make conversations with databases, most of which allow any field to be null, to be much, much easier.

Well, what I wasn’t aware of was there where [...]

Damn, I’m Meme-ing again

Generally I don’t like these ‘meme’ things, but this one looked interesting so I thought I’d give it a go. [via]

10 years ago: 1995 - started the year unemployed in edinburgh, not the most inspiring time of my life. had met the love of my life (my wife), got my first proper job, in the [...]

Website Format Moved

Well, incase you can’t tell, the website has had a major overhaul.

I’ve moved from Movable Type to Wordpress and am feeling quite happy, as I think it all went very well. Hopefully everything should be redirecting in just about the right way, and I think I have a bit more flexibility than before.

One of the [...]

Enough to make you cry

I’m not really an emotional person in real life, I bottle things up and ignore stuff rather than face things that might make me sad, a form of self defence no doubt.

But sometime, for no apparent reason something will just cause a tear or two to well up in my eyes, touching something deep within. [...]

Henry Moore

Yorkshire Sculpture Park 038Originally uploaded by _pauls.

Henry Moore has to be one of my favourite artists, his stuff being so emotional and connected in a strange and abstract way. It was his birthday on the 30th July so I thought a quick post was in order.

The above photo was taken at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, a [...]