Dante's Slopes
Blog URL http://dantesslopes.blogspot.com
Located Sydney, New South Wales Australia
Tags Sydney, NEws, Social Commentary, Current Affairs
Social commentary, news review, discussion of issues, and a watchful eye on the media from a Sydney based blogger
Latest Blog Posts
- How to: fuck the eBay ticket scalpers. on Nov 8, 2009
Fuckin scalper assholes.I bought Faith No More tickets a couple of weeks ago. The only way I was able to was by deliberately making myself late for work so that I could be in front of the computer at exactly 9am when the tix came out so that I could...
- The best things in life ain't free on Nov 7, 2009
I've had 'The best things in life are free' rammed down my throat by cheesy idealists all my life, and I've believed it up until recently.I define 'free' as something that comes without cost. I think that is a fair enough definition.I think the said...
- Immigration on Nov 1, 2009
I have mixed emotions about the Sri Lankans that are currently stuck in Indonesia.Firstly I will state that one of my best mates is Sri Lankan, and I think they are great people, so read this in context please.I'm a little confused firstly. If they...
- iPhone 3GS review on Oct 6, 2009
Yo peeps.A week ago I bought an iPhone so I thought I'd give my two cents on it here.First up its a nice looking piece of work, and slim. It fits in my pocket better than most other phones I've had.The touchscreen is fricken great, sensitive enough...
- I'm too old for Skateboarding on Oct 3, 2009
Its weird how skateboarding seems to have an unusual social stigma. I've found it quite interesting that now I'm 30, if I mention to people that I snowboard or surf (which I do) its greeted with enthusiasm, a somewhat admiration of my sense of adven...
- Opening a file in Java with jFileChooser, and filter which results are shown on Sep 25, 2009
This code will enable you to display a nifty filechooser box to the user, and also filter depending on which file extensions they can choose. In this example, we will 'force' the user to choose an .xls file.Firstly, declare a separate file in a form...
- Opening and manipulating Microsoft Excel (.xls) files with Java on Sep 23, 2009
Recently I built a simple Java app to manipulate some spreadsheets. I thought it might be helpful to share some of this information since it doesn't seem freely available on the internet.The program I wrote recently, read in a java excel file, manip...
