Still pleased with Brinkster

I have had a web site hosting agreement with Brinkster for many years now. They have continued to improve their systems over the years and I have just finished a couple of days of changes to make my bobpowell.net site a bit more modern and easy to update.
I must say that using the new Brinkster file manager is a joy and it works quickly and reliably while updating the files that need changing.
Even though I use GoDaddy for my various other sites, I will keep Brinkster for my "mission critical" site because they are just brilliant!

Is Amazon's associates program utterly useless?

I have had an associate program ID for several years and despite having many thousands of hits per day on my site I never -ever- make a cent from the associates program.

Google pays for clicks and I regularly get cheques from them, which I must admit I don't cash. (They probably really owe me several thousand bucks... ) but as far as I am concerned, Amazon is no good at all.

I guess anyone who visits my site has already got all the books they need.

More Honda Jazz miles per gallon results

I took my daughter to her horse riding exam today. A round trip of 367.6 kilometres. The reported litres per 100 kilometres was 4.2. This must have been a good 4.2 because it was still at that level after the drive back through the 'burbs to home so I reckon more like 4.1-4.2.
So, for a total of 228.416 miles, the fuel consumption was 15.43 litres or 3.396 imperial gallons.

This makes my fuel consumption 67.2 miles per gallon!

GetTemplateChild vs FindName

While creating a WPF control I searched for GetTemplateChild only to find that the help file says "Do not use. Use FindName instead".

Well, being a good developer used to following advice, I did just that and my control stopped working immediately.

I think in reality the help file should say use FindName unless you're trying to find a PART in your own custom control then you should definitely use GetTemplateChild.

Comments on this blog

I was unaware but the comment system on this blog seems to have been usurped by one which asks you to register by adding the email addresses of ten friends. Sorry about that. I will change it the first opportunity I get.