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I saw an old man (over 70), Asian looking (turns out hes from Bangladesh), in the full Ihram kit - he was going to Umrah (minor pilgrimage, its not required like the Hajj, but you can go whenever you want to do it, as opposed to just going when its Hajj.

I felt a bit sorry for the guy, as he didn't realise that you don't have to wear it immediately after leaving the house, but when you reach the Miqat - the pilgrimage boundary which is a about 200km around Makkah.

A small note - some Sunni's say that you should perfume your body when you enter the state of Ihram - they are wrong, as perfume is one of the 25 "banned" things.

*Edit - I stand correcte d - it turns out, that if the flight goes over the boundaries of the mosque (a few hundred km in each direction), you still have to be wearing the full Ihram kit, so thats a possible reason to be wearing it on the plane. My dad had to do the same a few years ago, when he flew from Kuwait.

For those people who rely on //TODO: Comments in their code, you should get Resharper! It will greatly improve how you can see TODO statements, among other things:

You can customise these options in the Resharper options page:

And you can edit the existing ones:

It actually works with files you dont even have open, unlike Visual Studio .NET's Task list - great for those large projects you have!

If you dont have Resharper, I suggest you go grab it.

Well I was talked into going back to my last place, to help clean up the code, and fix some issues that they have with some of the code that I have written. To be honest I wasn't too sure about this, because when I left, I checked to see that everything works, and I showed someone else the stuff working. All of a sudden, half of my stuff doesn't work, and they're having problems with it.

When I tried running the code on this machine, half of the pages weren't working, but there was an easy fix - it was a simple removing of a . (dot) from some of the names, since someone changed the way the page was being displayed, and couldn't be bothered to go and check all of the instances of that page, to make sure that there would be any more problems.

Another thing that I have noticed was the fact that I was told "To integrate this will be really hard (for me) - can you do it?" - Yet I noticed that that person has already integrated the code on a page that they wanted, and it worked, because its being displayed on that page. Further more, its only one line you have to copy and paste, then it goes off and does its own work to work out what stuff to show - so im really not sure what's going on here.

I think it might have something todo with the team not having enough time to finish the site, so in true team style fashion, you try to spread the blame around as much as you can. Im gunna work my ass off to make sure its NOT my stuff thats at fault. Personally, id rather spend today (Sunday) out cycling in this lovely sunshine, but im stuck at home on my laptop fixing code. Yay :(