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I just had to laugh at this one
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No, not everybody goes to heaven. Some have the hope of an earthly resurrection. But still, this was funny. A Tom Sawyer Moment... Three friends die in a car accident, and upon their arrival to heaven, they are all asked one question "When you are in your casket and family and friends are mourning upon you, what would you like to hear them say about you?" The first man says, "I would like to hear them say that I was a great doctor of my time, and a great family man." The second man says, "I would like to hear that I was a wonderful husband and school teacher who made a huge difference in our children of tomorrow." The last man replies: "I would like to hear them say: 'LOOK! HE'S MOVING!'"
I am inspired
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What you'll get in today's post: Fam and Friends, a bit of an update Coders and Geeks, a bit of love from MSDN, or in other words, highlights. First off, why am I inspired? Last week, I realized, I have time to read RSS/Blog feeds with my PDA. So I installed pRSSreader on my Pocket PC. Sweet, I'm up to date on all I care about. Coding Then I went to the MSDN event in Harrisburg. Definitely not a snoozer. We talked about highlights of the new .Net 2.0 System.Net namespace, including a simple IsAvailable and Ping, so you can do some network checking in your apps, without major coding. Then they talked about Windows Communication Framework. They showed us how to do a Windows/Web Service on steroids. Write one app with a built-in service contract, and expose it via Web Services, Named Pipes (for same PC communication), TCP (for same network communication), and MSMQ, MS Messaging Queue (for disconnected messaging). They showed a basic example, but all the way from start to fin...