One of those days… For the past little while I have been getting off the phone and getting another call straight away. It is as if people are snooping on me. Spooky really. Then again some people feel that it is spooky when I answer the phone saying hello to them by name when they have caller ID blocked. The trick there is that only two people generally ring me without caller ID, and one of them is STD and the other is local so I just need to wait for the pips, and if they are not there then it is local.

A friend was asking me about uploading files with VB.NET and ASP.NET. I found an article on The CodeProject that was over-complicated, so I took the hint and told this person just to create a new ASP.NET project and put a FileUpload control on the form. Then I told him to look at the return value. This worked without too many hassles.

One of the things I have been working on today is programming some GPRS modems. This is done with a serial port. I found that Hyperterminal would die horribly if you set the line delay to 1000 mSec, and the character delay to 10 mSec. But without these settings the hardware would not work. Hyperterminal started using 100% CPU. Strange. Using WRQ Reflections seems to have fixed that issue!