Archive for April, 2005
April 30th, 2005
I've done a lot of programming in MS Visual Basic using version 6.0 but recently I have been switching over to VB.NET 2003. One application (Coordinate Exchange) that I wrote in 6.0 was an plug-in for MapPoint. This application has been been fairly popular among MapPoint users and for a while now I've wanted [...]
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April 29th, 2005
There has been a lot of evolution vs. intelligent design (ID) discussion on several blogs recently (here and here) so I thought I’d add my 2˘. I Believe everyone has a right to believe as they wish. If someone wants to believe that evolution is guided by a God (or gods) and that the [...]
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April 28th, 2005
So I’m very new to blogging… both writing a blog and reading them. Most of the blogs I’ve seen don’t have anything of interest to me. However, lately I’ve enjoyed reading several blogs run by various skeptics around the world. If you want a launching pad to these skeptical posts you’re in luck. Saint [...]
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April 23rd, 2005
When writing my last post on the ionic air purifiers I came across a great blog at skeptico.blogs.com. Honestly, I have very little time to blog myself, much less reading other blogs, but Richard Rockley’s blog is great. To quote from his site:It sometimes seems like the whole world has gone mad. Everyone I [...]
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April 22nd, 2005
The first time I saw a commercial regarding those ion or ozone air purifiers I knew it was a scam. My theory was that a high efficiency filter doesn’t mean anything if the air flow is low. The ORECK XL for example may remove 95% of all particles but if the air exchange rate [...]
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