If you, like me, are getting your income tax together and need last year’s exchange rate, it’s at the Bank of Canada. The annual averages are at the bottom linked as PDF files. Every year I go to the Bank of Canada site, pretty much around this time and pretty much just once. On the Canadian tax forms it says you can use their rate or the rate you actually got for selling your US dollars. Of course I’m not an accountant but I hire one and he seems to be okay with this rate.
For 2006 I see 1.13409360 USD/CAD. And the drink of choice for this year’s tax season is a Strongbow.
I’ve decided I need a good reference for the STL. I had the misfortune of getting started with the STL back when Microsoft begrudgingly included it in Visual Studio 6. VS6 was a great product - especially for the time. But there was obviously no love for Standard Template Library. Jeff and I have been working on a game for a while. Nothing big, just a fun side-thing to get us in to coding in C++ on Linux. Thing is, Jeff is streets ahead of me when it comes to STL.
These days I’m not in to the generic, programming for programming’s sake way. I’m mostly interested in learning through doing though. I don’t want to see any tutorials or sample code that shows off how smart the author is. I don’t believe in Singletons and I think Functors are the work of the devil. Design patterns are a good idea but are often abused. I need thorough reference material and simple examples that suit normal usage.
Any ideas?
The Armory’s a pretty cool addition to the World of Warcraft site. Finally I can take comfort in knowing that while that rogue who jumped me is all decked out in purples and though I don’t stand a chance against him in PvP, I can out-herbalize him any day. That’s right - somehow he got to level 63 without getting past 150 herbalism! So that Felweed is mine all mine.
Read the rest of “Firefox Plugin to Search for WoW Characters at the Armory”…
