I'm going to MIX in Vegas this Sunday to Wednesday - which means I'll be at the mercy of the network connections I get down there for blogging. I'll try to keep everyone up to date on the cool things I find down there and post pictures, etc. from my travels. If I can't get around to it, I apologize, but my experience with these conferences is that the network is usually spotty and slow. If there is anything anyone wants me to find out for them or ask, now is the time to let me know...

...I haven't done any research on the topic, so I really don't know much about it, but the "one laptop per child" idea that Gates apparently slammed really doesn't get me going either - in fact, it might be kind of a waste of resources. My main questions are as follows:

1) What is the point of this effort? Is it to simply put a laptop in a child's hands - and if so, what are the immediate benefits of doing something like that for a child that still can't eat?

2) What software is going to be installed on the machine? What's the point of this software? Most computers today get their benefit from being connected to a network - teaching a child how to use Microsoft Word isn't necessarily going to advance them.

3) The laptops are $100.00 - is a computer the best thing to spend $100.00 on when developing countries have famine, hunger, war, etc. raging on?

...to me it seems like a wasteful act of idiology, one of those things that makes people feel better about themselves but doesn't really accomplish much.

    1) Doxygen output for asterisk source tree: http://www.asterisk.org/doxygen/.
    2) Basic developer documentation: http://www.asterisk.org/doxygen/DevDoc.html.

    As is often the case in the open source community, the documentation blows....and there seems to be forty different variants of solving the same problem, each as convoluted and hackish as the other...

    I wanted to add a tooltip to an individual checkbox in a checkboxlist so that when someone did a mouseover on an individual checkbox, a little textbox pops up. I tried enumerating the control collection of the CheckBoxList control itself, but for some reason I only found one control (a checkbox) as a child control - I don't understand that yet...anyway....

    The solution is to enumerate the .Items collection of the CheckboxList and set/get each ListItem's attributes list through the .Attributes() method like thus:

        Protected Sub CheckBoxList1_PreRender(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles CheckBoxList1.PreRender
            For Each item As ListItem In Me.CheckBoxList1.Items
                item.Attributes.Add("title", "Hello World!")
            Next
            Return
        End Sub

    The end result a tooltip for each checkbox in the checkboxlist, so this .Attributes() method equates to setting/getting properties on the HTML elements themselves.

    ....I'm slowly starting to actually move into the house I moved into about four months ago - that's the result of working a lot and being frugal with money. Nonetheless, checkout my new couch - it's got, what's called, a "snuggler" on the left-hand side there....that's for all the "snuggling" I do between working my ass off...

    ....http://www.lobstertech.com/doc/ast-12-func/.

    ...check out the drive array on this thing here in our office...7 western digital raptor drives, 70 gigs each, 10,000 rpms...

    http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/.