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  1. CyberMonday Sale 60% off O'Reilly ebooks including my book "Start Here! Fundamentals of Microsoft .NET Programming." bit.ly/s3vkkJ 8:34 AM Nov 28th, 2011 via web
  2. No solutions yet to the latest puzzles (tinyurl.com/budexk8 and tinyurl.com/bu5kt7q) so I'll wait another week before posting my solution. 8:33 AM Nov 28th, 2011 via web
  3. Puzzle: find the equilateral triangles in Visual Basic .NET tinyurl.com/bu5kt7q 6:20 AM Nov 19th, 2011 via web
  4. Puzzle: find the equilateral triangles in Visual Basic 6 tinyurl.com/budexk8 6:20 AM Nov 19th, 2011 via web
  5. Use steganography to hide one large picture inside another in Visual Basic 6 tinyurl.com/69vjxuw 2:15 PM Nov 4th, 2011 via web
  6. Use steganography to hide one picture inside another in Visual Basic 6 tinyurl.com/6zfvwdc 2:15 PM Nov 4th, 2011 via web
  7. Use steganography to hide one large picture inside another in Visual Basic .NET tinyurl.com/5s6k4vy 2:15 PM Nov 4th, 2011 via web
  8. Use steganography to hide one picture inside another in Visual Basic .NET tinyurl.com/6l35s5r 2:15 PM Nov 4th, 2011 via web
  9. Convert a Windows metafile (wmf file) to a PNG file in Visual Basic .NET tinyurl.com/5ujojm8 2:14 PM Nov 4th, 2011 via web
  10. Display a Windows metafile (wmf file) in Visual Basic .NET tinyurl.com/6hjtoo8 2:14 PM Nov 4th, 2011 via web
  11. Reduce the number of colors in a Bitmap and remap them to make interesting effects in Visual Basic .NET tinyurl.com/3h88ff9 9:06 AM Sep 9th, 2011 via web
  12. Reduce the number of colors in a Bitmap and remap them to make interesting effects in Visual Basic 6 tinyurl.com/3dm5brq 9:05 AM Sep 9th, 2011 via web
  13. Draw a fractal that is generated by applying rules to prime numbers in Visual Basic VB 6: tinyurl.com/2cdrrl2 VB.NET: tinyurl.com/3kd8z67 9:05 AM Sep 9th, 2011 via web
  14. Split an image into smaller image files in Visual Basic VB 6: tinyurl.com/3dm5brq VB.NET: tinyurl.com/3rlyftb 9:04 AM Sep 9th, 2011 via web
  15. Sorry I haven't been keeping up with this lately. Here come some new examples. 8:52 AM Sep 9th, 2011 via web
  16. Search for files that match multiple patterns in Visual Basic 6 http://tinyurl.com/4cvzlbv 3:47 PM Jan 20th, 2011 via web
  17. Make thumbnails and a web page to display the images in a directory in Visual Basic 6 http://tinyurl.com/4gyqcar 3:46 PM Jan 20th, 2011 via web
  18. Search for files that match multiple patterns in Visual Basic .NET http://tinyurl.com/4skuhbz 3:46 PM Jan 20th, 2011 via web
  19. Make thumbnails and a web page to display the images in a directory in Visual Basic .NET http://tinyurl.com/49ly6l2 3:46 PM Jan 20th, 2011 via web
  20. Make a generic priority queue class in Visual Basic .NET http://tinyurl.com/35kthky 9:35 AM Jan 6th, 2011 via web