A couple of months back I had some trouble with my WLAN router. Its little yellow traffic light was blinking continuously, and the router periodically stopped responding to wireless connection attempts from my computers. After some digging I quickly found out that my ISP was routing a lot of bad, crappy and seemingly wrong data to my router. Anyway, even with all this bad data, I couldn’t see why my router should stop responding… OK, it was ’a lot’ of bad inbound data - at some point it was about 2 gigabytes an hour.

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There are times when you want your class to expose some kind of collection. Maybe you got a Server class and want to world to access it connections, or you got a Family class and want to provide access to the collection of family members. Sometimes that is easy - just to return a reference to the collection from a function or property. Other times it’s not that easy.
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…and this time it was for real.

Today, while standing outside of my office with some colleagues, I was attacked by a blind old lady. Twice she hit me with her cane, before slowly passing on by. I’m in shock!