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I've only just starting dabbling with Generics and although I can see how cool they are I can also see that it will take some time to get used to them. To me it seems that although I know what they are I'm not sure that I always use it when I should - or how I should for that matter!

I was thinking about blogging this morning and  how easy it is for me to find something which I've blog'ged about previously because I categorize all of my posts.  So, if I want to find that snippet which talks about nested matching then all I need to do is to click on my Regex category and scan the list.  Then I started thinking about how difficult it is to find content which other people have written and also how useful it might be if community blogs exposed content in higher level categories.  

Here's links to a couple of interesting articles which I've seen today:

I've recently taken on the development of the ASPAlliance.com site along with RegexLib.com and a few other smaller sites on the side; this has led to a large TODO: list.   I've been keeping track of my TODO's on various medium - primarily in OutlookExpress.  This morning I had a brainwave... why not use the IssueTracker starter kit!

Today I had a request regarding the ContextMenu. The person wanted to know how to change the text appearance when the user moves their mouse over a menu item. Each MenuItem item is rendered inside a DIV as text, here is the code for emitting a MenuItem:

I read Frank's post today - http://weblogs.asp.net/frankarr/archive/2004/05/24/140951.aspx - and when I got home I discovered that my package has already arrived!  As Frank said... Woohoo! :-)

Mark posted a nice article titled: "Maths Beginnings" which encapsulates and builds on some of the stuff which he and I were tossing around in e-mails the other day:

Yesterday I mentioned the series of articles which Justin has been writing on language processing.  This series has really opened my eyes to a few techniques which will improve several of my parsing techniques and provide me with the ability to produce high-performance language parsers in a shorter period of time.