Thanks to the wxWidgets library, the latest release of Alternate’s ASCII Artist is capable of opening jpegs, gifs and png files in addition to the standard windows bitmap format.
This version includes a slightly modified plain-text conversion algorithm, which should improve the output clarity a bit. The color conversion algorithm is not yet complete.
Here’s the download […]

And to think that all this time, Microsoft has been offering Visual Studio 2005 Express for free! If downloaded before Nov 6th, 2006, there’s no licencing fee.
Visual studio express is described as “Easy to learn tools for hobbyists, students and novice developers”.
FAQ says: We originally announced pricing of Visual Studio Express at US$49. We are […]

Well, after a couple of days of instability, the MySQL databases on my host are alive again, with nothing lost. . .
Not that I had anything much online to loose  . But it is still quite a relief to have them back!