Area code lookup

Search for an area codes and get the telephone company, and approximate GPS coordiantes of where a cell phone was purchased. This is great for looking up cell phones that called you. you can also lookup various other forms of information.

http://www.areacodedownload.com/

I personally just edit the url to lookup locations
http://www.areacodedownload.com/410/247/

bill gates got hit with a pie

does anyone remember this when bill gates got hit with a pie?

Differences and new features in visual studo 2005 instead of visual studio 2003

Want to catch up on visual studio 2005 ? There is a good downloadable issue (free tutorial) of msdn magazine dedicated to the differences and new features in asp.net 2.0, C# 2.0 and win forms and visual studio 2005 (not asp.net 1.1 or visual studio 2003) so that you can quickly catch up. It goes over all the controls, how to use them, and a summary of just about all the features. [HERE] is a downloadable pdf (24mb) and [HERE] is the issue on the site. Some newest features are the gridview contol, generics, type safe collections, data source control, more.

Statistics

Here are some interesting statistics (stats)

Gasoline Prices (per litre)

#1	Uruguay	1.95
#2	United Kingdom	1.92

#102

United States

0.77

#140

Iraq

0.05

Growth Rate

#1

Afghanistan

4.77%

#130

United States

0.92%

#234

Bulgaria

-0.89%

Longest Living

#1	Andorra	83.49 years
#2	Macau	81.87 years
#3	San Marino	81.43 years
#4	Japan	80.93 years
#5	Singapore	80.42 years
#6	Australia	80.13 years

#48

United States

77.14 years

#218

Zimbabwe

39.01 years

#224

Mozambique

31.3 years

Car thefts

#1	United States	1,147,300
#2	United Kingdom	338,796
#3	Japan	309,638

Most murders

Rank	Country	Amount (top to bottom)
#1	India	37,170
#2	Russia	28,904
#3	Colombia	26,539
#4	South Africa	21,995
#5	Mexico	13,829
#6	United States	12,658

Murders (per capita)

#1	Colombia	0.617847 per 1,000 people
#2	South Africa	0.496008 per 1,000 people
#3	Jamaica	0.324196 per 1,000 people
#4	Venezuela	0.316138 per 1,000 people

http://www.nationmaster.com/statistics/stats

ASP.NET 2.0 Page LifeCycle

Note for self: Application, Page and Control events in ASP.NET v2.0

Application: BeginRequest
Application: PreAuthenticateRequest
Application: AuthenticateRequest
Application: PostAuthenticateRequest
Application: PreAuthorizeRequest
Application: AuthorizeRequest
Application: PostAuthorizeRequest
Application: PreResolveRequestCache
Application: ResolveRequestCache
Application: PostResolveRequestCache
Application: PreMapRequestHandler
Page: Construct
Application: PostMapRequestHandler
Application: PreAcquireRequestState
Application: AcquireRequestState
Application: PostAcquireRequestState
Application: PreRequestHandlerExecute
Page: AddParsedSubObject
Page: CreateControlCollection
Page: AddedControl
Page: AddParsedSubObject
Page: AddedControl
Page: ResolveAdapter
Page: DeterminePostBackMode
Page: PreInit
Control: ResolveAdapter
Control: Init
Control: TrackViewState
Page: Init
Page: TrackViewState
Page: InitComplete
Page: LoadPageStateFromPersistenceMedium
Control: LoadViewState
Page: EnsureChildControls
Page: CreateChildControls
Page: PreLoad
Page: Load
Control: DataBind
Control: Load
Page: EnsureChildControls
Page: LoadComplete
Page: EnsureChildControls
Page: PreRender
Control: EnsureChildControls
Control: PreRender
Page: PreRenderComplete
Page: SaveViewState
Control: SaveViewState
Page: SaveViewState
Control: SaveViewState
Page: SavePageStateToPersistenceMedium
Page: SaveStateComplete
Page: CreateHtmlTextWriter
Page: RenderControl
Page: Render
Page: RenderChildren
Control: RenderControl
Page: VerifyRenderingInServerForm
Page: CreateHtmlTextWriter
Control: Unload
Control: Dispose
Page: Unload
Page: Dispose
Application: PostRequestHandlerExecute
Application: PreReleaseRequestState
Application: ReleaseRequestState
Application: PostReleaseRequestState
Application: PreUpdateRequestCache
Application: UpdateRequestCache
Application: PostUpdateRequestCache
Application: EndRequest
Application: PreSendRequestHeaders
Application: PreSendRequestContent

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Heavy metal party

Wow, this is my kinda party! I need a career as a dance instructor.

Never disturb a gamer or get hurt badly.

Check out this video and see what happens to this guy after he teases a gamer.