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Be positive

Was driving to the customer site in a really bad mood but one of the billboards made me laugh all the way: MBF - Australian health fund/private health insurer has a new motto: "BE POSITIVE". Way to go, PR boneheads! That's exactly what I don't want to be when it comes to my health :-)

Make it three days from now

Did you know that in date fields in Outlook (Task, Appointment forms) you can type things like "tomorrow", "yesterday", "week from now", "in 2 days", "two weeks ago", "next year". Even "Christmas", "Boxing Day", "New Years Day", "Halloween",  "Cinco de Mayo" and "Independence day" work (though "Queens Birthday" and "tonight" do not :-)

Very handy when your client says "lets talk again in three days" - saves you figuring out what date it's going to be in case you've been on a coding roll for 20 hours straight and lost track of time. Sweet.

$25 ASP.NET challenge

I'm yet to see ASP.NET code which does not use '~' mapping feature in Server.MapPath. We all love this feature, except... wait a minute... it is not documented?! Search on MSDN failed to uncover any statement stating that '~' in MapPath function refers to a virtual root (the task was not made any easier by the fact that tilde is ignored in a search). Could it be that we're all typing megalines of code against undocumented feature? And what, apart from bazillions of angered developers around the world, will stop ASP.NET team from changing it in 2.0 from '~' to, say '$', 'œ', '¥' or '½', for this matter :-). 

Now, here is the georged™ challenge: the first person who points me to a piece of documentation explaining usage of a tilde character in MapPath is entitled to AUS $25 (about US$17 and rising). Money will be transferred to a PayPal account or similar.

Rules:

1. It must be official documentation, i.e. references to samples, user groups, magazine articles, blogs, etc will not be considered.
2. 'First' will be judged by UTC time of the reply/post/email.
3. I decide who's first and whether pointer/answer is correct.
4. if(you.disagree) goto 3;
5. Ah, what the heck, Microsoft employees are also eligible to enter :-)

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