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It's not finished yet, but I am working on a Font Browser using Avalon. It's fun to work with XAML and code-behind, but without splitter or treeview controls its hard to make something really fun. I am also working on a database browser with Avalon, but until I find a tree view that project is dead.
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Currently my healthcare plan is cash. The quality me the care is adequate but the cost is crazy. I went to emergency room today. They offer a 40% discount to people with no insurance, if they pay within the first thirty days. I understand this is a policy to encourage users to pay their bill fast, but it seems to me that if they can afford a 40% discount, then that is nearer their costs. If you need to spread the cost past thirty days, no discount. So the people least able to afford healthcare are paying full fare. In fact, I would bet that the full price care is being paid by no-one with insurance. I would expect that the Blue-Cross's and Medicares out there have rate plans for what they pay for what. This seems regressive to me.
Back in the day when ASP.NET shipped, I converted this site from the existing ASP based site. As an exercise to really bring in some new features I've wanted and to lose the ASP legacy (I actually still have a page or two that uses string concatenation to put together HTML Tables), I want to do a full re-write of the site.
For the new wildermuth.com, I have the following requirements:
I found it very interesting in a little test that the Flags attribute doesn't seem to change the way that the CLR numbers Enumerations. So that this enumeration:
Tricia and I have been looking at houses today when we heard sirens and a car hit the car in front of us (thankfully everyone was ok). But when the car stopped that hit the car in front of us, the sirens were right behind them. They both jumped out and one of them ran off. The officers arrested the one that didn't run and 3 more patrol cars went after the one on foot. I never did find out if they caught him, but it was all a bit too exciting.
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They have quite a scam going on for individual people for coverage. Tricia and I recently applied for individual coverage and they happily took our application and the first month's premium. Before they even looked at the application, they charged our credit card. Then they dragged their feet on approving the application so we have to cancel the application and get coverage elsewhere. So the deal is that if you are not approved or cancel the application, they take 30 days to keep your money and issue an out of state check for the refund. So they are keeping our money floating in their accounts for two months while they mess around with us. While money isn't extravagant (~$600), I wonder how many other individuals are caught up in this mess too. I knew BCBS was a crooked organization (they are an insurance carrier afterall), but this just seems mean to do this to individuals that can scarcely deal with it, people trying to get individual insurance coverage. Just evil...
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