mono-vbnc and speakup

[Jude DaShiell]

When I had sid working I was doing some programming with mono-vbnc and 
found out something that likely will be useful for others if they take 
this path.  On http://www.java2s.com in the vb.net tutorial, avoid all 
g.u.i. stuff since when you put it in a console-based program to run with 
vbnc, it's going to throw an exception and not return any useful 
information.  Stick to Console.WriteLine and Console.Read and 
Console.ReadLine for input/output and all will work fine so long as you 
remember to use a Try exception catching loop around any of those read 
functions.