December 31, 2003Dec 31, 200312/31/03This has got to be some sort of record for “Longest official name of a sponsored college football game”: The Gaylord Hotels Music City Bowl Presented by Bridgestone, which proclaims that “the Gaylord Hotels Music City Bowl Presented By Bridgestone is Nashville’s Holiday Tradition“.
December 31, 2003Dec 31, 200312/31/03Like many of you (I suspect), I don’t use the paper telephone book. If I want to look something up, I go online. Yet every year I get a dozen different telephone books. I don’t like them because a telephone book sitting on my front porch screams,
December 30, 2003Dec 30, 200312/30/03The FBI has apparently released a bulletin advising law enforcement officers to be on the alert for people with almanacs: They might be terrorists.
December 30, 2003Dec 30, 200312/30/03Even though Danish is impossible for me to pronounce, I do appreciate their stubborn resistance to decimalization. The number 71 is (I hope I get this right) “en og halvfjerdsindstyve”, literally, “one and half-four-times-twenty”, or more commonly, just “en og halvfjerds”.
December 30, 2003Dec 30, 200312/30/03CreateMenu creates a horizontal menu bar, suitable for attaching to a top-level window. This is the sort of menu that says “File, Edit”, and so on.
CreatePopupMenu creates a vertical popup menu, suitable for use as a submenu of another menu (either a horizontal menu bar or another popup menu) or as the root of a context menu.
December 29, 2003Dec 29, 200312/29/03Sometimes you’ll find a blank taskbar button that goes away when you click on it. What’s the deal with that?
There are some basic rules on which windows go into the taskbar. In short:
If the WS_EX_APPWINDOW extended style is set,
December 29, 2003Dec 29, 200312/29/03How soon before this becomes standard equipment at Star Trek conventions?
Vocera Communications Unveils Wearable, Instant Voice Communications Application “Enterprise environments are looking for applications that leverage their investment in wireless communication technologies and increase employee efficiency,” …
Some of the basic calling features include:
Call by name,
December 28, 2003Dec 28, 200312/28/03Today I read the privacy policy for Nuveen Investment Advisors. I like this part:
We do not disclose any nonpublic personal information about you to anyone, except as permitted by law.
“Except as permitted by law”. How reassuring. Is it really necessary to have an official policy promising that that you won’t break the law?
December 28, 2003Dec 28, 200312/28/03Of course my real goal in studying German and Swedish is eventually to have all of Denmark surrounded. (After Swedish, the next most likely nearby targets are Norwegian and Dutch.)
All I know about Denmark I learned from Swedes. Well, if you don’t count one Danish co-worker,
December 27, 2003Dec 27, 200312/27/03I’m looking over my Fidelity privacy disclosure statement, titled “Our commitment to privacy”. Google is amazing: It found a copy online: Our Commitment to Privacy. Scroll down to How and Why We Obtain Personal Information, fourth bullet point:
Information services and consumer reporting agencies (for example,
