I was tinkering with a little program in C# this morning that needed to create incremental filenames instead of just overwriting the existing file.  As in: myfilename.htm -> myfilename_1.htm etc.
So here is the rough and ready version of what I did.

private string GetOutputFilename(string path,string filename,string extension)
{
string[] files = Directory.GetFiles(path,filename+"*."+extension);
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I don’t know if anyone else has noticed, but the English seem to be losing the capacity to use comparative adjectives (hot, hotter, hottest) and are using “more hot” and “most hot”.  I was at a friend’s house last night, and I was chatting to their daughter.  She stumbled over a comparative (I can’t remember [...]

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Continuing on from the last post on “What is a…?” here is the rest of the list.
What is a metaphor?
As succinctly as I can put it, a metaphor is a type of comparison that is only true for one key attribute.  In a way, they are long winded adjectives (which I’ll be describing later).
Quite often [...]

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