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I have been helping my Chinese partner rewrite some of her students essays.  When I first started, I felt like I was throwing my ethics out the window.  I was helping students get a better grade in exchange for money.  Well, not a lot of money any way.  Maybe that is why I felt so…

I’ve been having a little fun while I’ve been keeping my programming and C# skills sharp.  Here is one of the problems I solved a little while ago.  The biggest stinker about this problem was that the numbers could get very large.  Larger than the Int64 would handle, so I had to install the BigInteger…

Over the past 30 years, I’ve noticed that people from Asian countries like to adopt Western names so they can fit in with the West.  Some say that it’s easier for Westerners to remember or pronounce.  I’ve even heard that they are trying to avoid the stigma of being oriental in a Western business.  Whatever…

Many of you would say that it is an odd career path that a person should take after working for so many years as a software developer.  I would emphatically agree, if it weren’t for what really happens in a beehive. Many years ago, when I was a boy, I was introduced to beekeeping.  My…

When I was first learning how to program, I had a class that wanted a fast way of checking the spelling of the words in a file.  The language we were using was called APL (Another Programming Language), which was based on atomic structures that were very dynamic and powerful.  Unfortunately it was a language…