html links in online banking emails

With the prolific phishing attacks, I really don't understand why credit card companies and other financial institutions continue to send out emails with html links embedded in them. It seems safer to send the link in text and have the user copy and paste it. Certainly that's less user-friendly, but I think a lot of people don't check link destinations properly. Hopefully those people don't do banking online, but there's no guarantee of that.

C# programming

So far, all the programming I've been doing in C# has practically been procedural. There's no encapsulation, and it's really hard to create a black box. Messy, very messy so far.

sqlserver rownum equivalent

There's apparently no equivalent for Oracle's rownum in SqlServer, so this page came in handy for doing the equivalent.

audio recording software, thunderbird

Occasionally I use Total Recorder to record some of my favorite programs from bbc radio. It's a solid program that I've never had problems with. Definitely worth the mere $12 for the standard version. The pro version seems very nice though, automatically splitting up files for you.

However, after upgrading from XP Home to XP Professional, my installation was messed up so I thought I'd try some other recording programs and see how they compare. Right now I'm testing out Loop Recorder. So far it seems quite straightforward and easy to use.

update: Mar. 17: actually, it's a bit confusing to use. But I like the editing feature; when you save you can specify the exact section you'd like to save.

I'm a little annoyed by how Thunderbird crashes occasionally. I hate losing emails that way.

I don't remember, .NET

I swear my team leader is falling back on the classic Reagan defense of denying all knowledge. The client asked why we didn't point out that the change that they requested was odd. Team leader's response, "We didn't notice that it was strange." Either he's lying or he has no long term memory.

I can kind of understand the desire to forget all facts related to this project, but it makes me wonder if he's getting senile or something, even though he's only 40.

So far, I am highly unimpressed with .NET. First of all, Visual Source Safe seems pretty weak. It takes a couple clicks to see comments associated with a particular commited change. Also, is it at all integrated with Visual Studio?

The debugger doesn't work at times. For no apparent reason.

C# questions

Kind of fun reading: C# interview questions.