Garbage Collection

Many thanks to Ed Mulroy at Borland for this nice quote I yanked from the borland.public.cbuilderx.language.cpp newsgroup:

And no, C++ does not have "garbage collection". Thank God for that. C++ gives me the ability to not create garbage in the first place.

I love it!

Whisper

Gotta have a picture of the new dog "Whisper", a Belgian Shepherd. Although the housetraining has been a lot of work, she's amazingly smart and attentive. I'd say she's fitting into the family quite well.

In other news, I got an ink painting set and did a couple of pictures of bamboo. There is a technique that isn't too hard (at least for bamboo), but more involved subjects are kind of difficult. It certainly takes some skill and patience, and the right frame of mind. It's an interesting break from mainly digital art, though.

I've also been getting back into the Windows Template Library (WTL) due to the good coverage on CodeProject. It's a surprisingly nifty library...I wish Microsoft would "officially" support it.