Poem about Self-Pity

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Self-pity

I never saw a wild thing
sorry for itself.
A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough
without ever having felt sorry for itself.

DH Lawrence

 Wikipedia article about DH Lawrence: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._H._Lawrence

 Quoted several times in the movie G.I. Jane.

 

Another poem:

O the stale old dogs who pretend to guard
the morals of the masses,
how smelly they make the great back-yard
wetting after everyone that passes.

— excerpt, The Young and Their Moral Guardians

Most popular page on this site

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The number one page on this site is my “Hindi Resources on the web”

https://www.gadgetnate.com/index.php/hindi/hindi-resources-on-the-web/

And the number one place I get hits from is India.  I find this to be pretty amazing!

 

I was thinking about doing a daily blog like the http://www.japanesepod101.com/ but around Hindi instead.  My mother-in-law is a Hindi teacher.  It could be a lot of fun.  And I’m already getting a lot of hits for content like this.  Maybe it would be a good way to learn Hindi, provide a service, increase the number of hits my site gets, earn some additional ad revenue (which is really, really nice!), and potentially have some value added services.

Cool things from Mashable.com today

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http://creator.zoho.com/index.jsp?targetURL=%2Fhome.do
Zoho database creator.  “Create Online DAtabase Applications in minutes”.  Looks pretty cool.  See a demo video:

http://co.mments.com/  co.mments – track your conversations on multiple sites.

http://www.openads.org/  OpenAds – an open source ad server.

http://www.foonz.com/
“Start a group call, anytime, from any phone, for free!”  – Sounds like something worth checking out.

C# – Creating a stream from a string

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Ok.  I’m a .net newbie (have been for the past few years.)  But now I’m going to get passed all that, buckle down and learn it inside out.

One of the challenges that I have is some things require a “stream”.  So, you have a value in a variable but you can’t use it because it isn’t a stream. 

Well, finally got the solution to the problem:

StringReader strReader = new StringReader(stringVal);

Simple enough.  StringReader is a stream, and it takes a string value.

I got this solution from: http://weblogs.asp.net/whaggard/archive/2004/09/23/233535.aspx