Sample code for Google search from VB
MSDN: Using Visual Basic .NET to Access Google’s Web Service. Article in MSDN giving instructions and a sample executable for using the Google web service from VB. Looks like the support for XML web services is pretty strong in VB.NET. Another development environment to learn.
Nits: There are no active hyperlinks in the document to Google, [...]
Photo essay on Argentina in New York Times Magazine
Susan Gotthelf: What They Were Thinking: On Barely Getting By in Argentina. Photos and interviews with three Argentinian women about their situation. One is photographed digging through garbage for her children. Another ran a soup kitchen until her family became unable to feed itself. The third has lost all her savings but still has a [...]
An apology
An irate reader left a message on my discussion board (registration required) to complain about a news item from January on the Argentinian crisis. He writes:
“Sorry, but what fun can you find in ?Quiere Ser Presidente de Argentina?…People is passing a very hard time here, some (not few) are hungry and eating from the garbage.
When [...]
Congrats, Glenn
Congratulations to Glenn Fleishman, Seattle area blogger and tech columnist, who got married this weekend. Sounds like it was a good time, Glenn. (Glenn provided the router I’m using at home via eBay shortly after we moved to the area, for which I am grateful.)more…
