So I recently got an email from someone on Craigslist, and needed to find out a little more about them. The email address gave me no information about who they were, where they lived, or who they worked for. I googled the address, but nothing valid came up. So I had to find a decent email address lookup tool. (more…)

I recently upgraded from a 22" to a 28" LCD monitor. I was thinking of going for 30", but there was such an incredible deal at TigerDirect on the I-INC 28" (iF-281DPB) that I couldn't pass it up. Nor could I justify spending an extra thousand dollars from only two more inches.

But the old adage has proven true – you get what you pay for! (more…)

AdWords is an incredibly powerful and easy tool that enables advertisers to feature their website to people that are searching for, or reading about, relevant information. In fact, that's how Google funds Gmail, it places these relevant ads within your Gmail window, next to any email you are reading, contextual to the emails' contents.

Usually these ads are pretty bang on, and usually I just ignore them. But I have to admit that my eyes were drawn to this particular ad today: (more…)

I recently sold my laptop on Craigslist (I just upgraded to the new unibody MacBook Pro). I got a flurry of emails, two of which I immediately recognized as scams. The one I tried to engage in a 'transaction', but went nowhere. The other one I was able to string along for 3 days, 39 emails and a Skype chat! I will post this purely for educational purpose, so you don't get scammed. Here's how it went down:
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5 years ago I wrote this article on how to sort a multidimensional array with ASP. This morning I was contacted by James Philips of  Djanogly City Academy Nottingham, who told me that he found my article, and has adapted the function for VB.NET compilation. Additionally, he has modified it to allow sorting on numeric criteria so that numbers aren’t sorted as strings.

With his permission I'm publishing the function. Enjoy!
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