James Mason's Blog -or- The Journal of Contemporary Lunacy

For the record  Team USA prevailed 5-4 over Team Canada in OT after coming back from being 0-2 down in the first period. Just like last year it was a really good night, complete with the sort of over-the-top production that you'd expect. The first of many fights breaks out. At one stage it was standing room only in the penalty boxes...   Going into OT USA scores the winning goal and goes nuts celebrating while being buried in streamers.

ul·ti·mo /ˈəltəˌmō/ adjective dated adjective: ultimo ; symbol: ult. ; symbol: ulto of last month. "the 3rd ultimo" Origin: from Latin ultimo mense ‘in the last month.’ Doesn't it just add so much to a sentence? Replacing, for example, "The 27th of last month" with "The 27th Ultimo" lends a touch of class. Or something close to class, at any rate...

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle Amen, brother...

This PowerShell script looks up  and returns results from a mini-database that uses XML as its back-end. For the actual program that edits and returns results graphically, I used Java - this was an exercise in learning PowerShell's XML functions. As can be seen below, the in-built XML handling makes working with XML files very straightforward indeed. The structure of the XML file I'm using to test is: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <recordList>     <record id="0">         <title>Some Title</title>         <category>Some Cat</category>         <notes>Some Notes</notes>     </record>     <record id="1">         <title>Great Expectations</title>         <category>Categorical</category> ...