In case you don’t care about Soccer

This is just wrong

Public Shared Function ApplyPhoneNumberFormatting(ByVal phoneNumber As String) As String
        Dim cleanPhoneNumber As String
        Dim formattedPhoneNumber As New System.Text.StringBuilder
        Dim i As Integer

                If phoneNumber Is Nothing Then
                        Return String.Empty
                End If

        cleanPhoneNumber = StripNonNumericCharacters(phoneNumber)

        If cleanPhoneNumber.Length = 0 Then
            Return String.Empty
        Else

            For i = 0 To 12

                Select Case i
                    Case 0
                        formattedPhoneNumber.Append("(")
                    Case 1
                        formattedPhoneNumber.Append(cleanPhoneNumber.Chars(0))
                    Case 2
                        formattedPhoneNumber.Append(cleanPhoneNumber.Chars(1))
                    Case 3
                        formattedPhoneNumber.Append(cleanPhoneNumber.Chars(2))
                    Case 4
                        formattedPhoneNumber.Append(") ")
                    Case 5
                        formattedPhoneNumber.Append(cleanPhoneNumber.Chars(3))
                    Case 6
                        formattedPhoneNumber.Append(cleanPhoneNumber.Chars(4))
                    Case 7
                        formattedPhoneNumber.Append(cleanPhoneNumber.Chars(5))
                    Case 8
                        formattedPhoneNumber.Append("-")
                    Case 9
                        formattedPhoneNumber.Append(cleanPhoneNumber.Chars(6))
                    Case 10
                        formattedPhoneNumber.Append(cleanPhoneNumber.Chars(7))
                    Case 11
                        formattedPhoneNumber.Append(cleanPhoneNumber.Chars(8))
                    Case 12
                        formattedPhoneNumber.Append(cleanPhoneNumber.Chars(9))

                End Select

            Next

            Return formattedPhoneNumber.ToString

        End If

    End Function

more here.

Since we are in Star Trek mood

What would have happened if Seattle was the Federation HQ instead?

Attack of the Kingons (sic)

Please pity the webserver

 

On Tuesday, May 5 (PST), the RC will be available to everyone via our Customer Preview Program. As with the Beta, the Windows 7 RC Customer Preview Program is a broad public program that offers the RC free to anyone who wants to download it. It will be available at least through June 30, 2009, with no limits on the number of downloads or product keys available.

So you don’t need rush to make sure you get your copy. When you’re ready to download the RC, it’ll be waiting for you.

translation:

Please don’t kill our webservers! We know you want it, but take pity on our hosting staff. Please.

Speed investigation

 

Openweb, with 768 kbps down, 416 kbps up

Openweb, with 2400 kbps down, 512 kbps up

M-Web. with 768 kbps down, 416kbps up

M-Web. with 2400 kbps down, 512 kbps up