finally updated:04 Sep 2004 20:05 UK time oJoS Statistics - Individual Statistics for 'Kyralessa' View all Jossers sorted by : Name | Comments | Words | First Comment | Final Comment Number of Comments: 537 Number of Words: 40,489 First Comment: 19 Jan 2003 Final Comment: 30 Aug 2004 Number of Topics Posted: 10 First Topic: 14 Mar 2003 Latest Topic: 12 Aug 2004 When Item Comment 30 Aug 2004   What motivates you t....   I read to learn.  But why do I post?  Um....   >>   24 Aug 2004   OT - Anyone jog with....   'The sounds of cars and trucks really overshadows ....   >>   23 Aug 2004   Anti-anti-virus   The only virus I've ever gotten was from 3.5" flop....   >>   20 Aug 2004   Does your employer m....   'How does anyone who isn't a morning person last y....   >>   19 Aug 2004   Would you ever get r....   I can't get rid of the landline, because my wife c....   >>   14 Aug 2004   Speaking of Google I....   This is why I stick with I-bonds.   >>      What makes a great p....   '...he or she knows that their code is of the same....   >>      This ain't about lov....   'It's exactly the same bullshit that abusive IT 'c....   >>         I think Simon is right, so far as taking a bite or....   >>      new management fad: ....   'IAC, I wouldn't trust a news article like this to....   >>      Favorite Screen Save....   'I read it as 'Favourite Scream Saver' ' John....   >>   13 Aug 2004   Managing and fixing ....   'But there also seems to be a tendency, particular....   >>   12 Aug 2004   Managing and fixing spaghetti code   >>   12 Aug 2004   word processor with ....   Here's one thought: Work some magic with regular e....   >>      Favorite Screen Save....   Ever since monitors learned how to go on standby, ....   >>      what to do   Damn, I'm glad I read this thread. Seriously. I'....   >>      Speaking of Code Mon....   I read the same article, but I thought of Alfie Ko....   >>      Does JBoss suck?   JBoss rocks. I've never used it myself, but a f....   >>      Rude = No Hire?   You can never tell what some people will consider ....   >>   07 Aug 2004   Getting Things Done ....   Another point to consider, whichever type of folde....   >>         The point is to make the filing system quick and e....   >>      pre employment backg....   Perhaps, muppet, you will go further and explain t....   >>   06 Aug 2004   Employment contracts....   The first part, from the way you describe it, soun....   >>   05 Aug 2004   You too can run up $....   My favorite quote from the article: 'That [numb....   >>   02 Aug 2004   Am I being greedy?   I took a job once that paid 26% better than the jo....   >>   01 Aug 2004   A form with lots of ....   If they really want an on-screen form that looks j....   >>      Longhorn Visual Basi....   'VB6 is dead' <> 'there will be no updates' I'v....   >>      Your Productivity   Desi, reading u makes my eyeballs hurt.   >>         muppet, Some of your comments and others' make ....   >>      Programmatically rot....   'Eventually, the user will get a microwave pizza, ....   >>   31 Jul 2004   Google toolbar popup....   Iago, you can do the same thing in IE. Just enabl....   >>   30 Jul 2004   Your Productivity   I didn't work this week.  On the other hand, ....   >>   29 Jul 2004   Interviewing: common....   Static vs. dynamic linking of _what_?   >>      Salary Reviews   At one place where I used to work, a manager tried....   >>   27 Jul 2004   mislead about a job;....   Leaving aside the acerbic tone, I agree with Woode....   >>   26 Jul 2004   Bzzzt!   I don't have a problem with the browser rejecting ....   >>      Third, er, sixth, er....   I read the second and part of the third (in writte....   >>         How dull. This one is a better account: http:/....   >>   23 Jul 2004   Non compete prior to....   Anything that is "standard" that "no one else has ....   >>      Daylight Saving Time   I like Daylight Saving Time.  What I hate is ....   >>      Gmail   I've only gotten one, which I gave to my wife. ....   >>      pet projects that fi....   I thought Java was invented to run set-top boxes.&....   >>      MCSD revisited   'It's not the kiss of death, but it's also not the....   >>      What are the most un....   Combined PDA/cell phone. (VisorPhone/Visor Prism ....   >>   22 Jul 2004   Currently playing so....   Nonsense; I hardly knew any song lyrics, and I sti....   >>      mcsd   I agree...but the MCSD referred to wasn't talking ....   >>   21 Jul 2004   Rant:  Can't so....   Now I know I'm really somebody on this board; I've....   >>         No!   >>   20 Jul 2004   Free program to wash my dishes   >>   20 Jul 2004   The Plague of Minimu....   'As an aside, I remember a while back there was a ....   >>         Your boss isn't going to add up all those numbers,....   >>      Windows "Briefcase"   The Briefcase did what Offline Files now does bett....   >>      Indentation   I once spent an hour trying to get my manual-trans....   >>      Rant:  Can't so....   Aaron, you may be in a heavy metal band, but still....   >>      rant: HP iPAQ compar....   If you want to get a PDA to work on, why are you g....   >>      IPOD "monopoly":Appl....   1400 CDs?  Nonsense; in WAV format 60GB is on....   >>   19 Jul 2004   MORE IQ   I used to think being smart was a big deal. Then ....   >>      I am boring myself t....   Learn a new language. No, I mean a spoken langu....   >>      PDA recommendations   So far as the bike/arthritis issue, if her hands a....   >>   16 Jul 2004   Taxes in Taiwan   But keep in mind that an extension to file is not ....   >>      Refunds   I've only once asked for a refund on software I pu....   >>   14 Jul 2004   What does "YES" mean....   I found a similar problem in Romania: if you ask a....   >>   12 Jul 2004   Forming the Best Tea....   Hire a B-Team and train them to be an A-Team.   >>      Eric on Hazards of H....   'One of the popular interviewing questions is to a....   >>      Video games dont cra....   I'd never seen a console game crash till I played ....   >>   09 Jul 2004   Myserious billboard   Journalism sure is easy these days. That ZDNet ar....   >>      The Myth of Technolo....   'Not to mention, even first-time users don't need ....   >>         'so Dan, how to stop your chip from giving your de....   >>   30 Jun 2004   Stupid Office Questi....   Crap, I thought I'd changed my name back.   >>      Web Applications vs ....   Go here instead: http://makeashorterlink.com ....   >>      Advice for quitting ....   Are you sure this was his wife, and not his ex-wif....   >>   28 Jun 2004   My word processing e....   I'd just like to draw attention back to this comme....   >>      Microsoft office ran....   (1) I would like to applaud Ged Byrne. (2) I ....   >>      Afraid of success   You can be in business without starting a business....   >>      I am starting a new ....   Don't believe bad things people say about other pe....   >>   27 Jun 2004   Extremely experience....   ASP, JSP, HTML, XML, XSLT, PHP, and SQL? Big de....   >>      Opinions/knowledge a....   Do foods have any effect on you? I find that caff....   >>      $20 doesn't buy jack....   A teacher's salary is not high?  Compared to ....   >>      Pranks on people's c....   One favorite subtle one of mine is to go to the Or....   >>      Microsoft didn't bet....   I assume when you say shrinkwrap, you really mean ....   >>         With $52 billion in the bank, is there really any ....   >>   24 Jun 2004   Optimize this:   Apparently he writes his English in assembler too.   >>      GMail Marketing Blun....   And apparently some people are afraid eBay will sh....   >>         'GMail purposely increased the rate at which the i....   >>   23 Jun 2004   C#/.NET (Vague Troll....   Perhaps Walter's point is that while people _talk_....   >>      Code Comlete 2nd Edi....   'This will be a natural progression in the world-w....   >>   22 Jun 2004      Is there anyone who has read both first and second....   >>      Working in Canada?   Wow, somebody's thin-skinned around here.  Di....   >>   19 Jun 2004   YAR (Yet Another Ran....   Thanks for reminding me, as I sit here unemployed,....   >>      Rebates? Not yet?   The last rebates I sent in were for a Seagate 160G....   >>   17 Jun 2004   UI question   If you're going to use option 3, you may want to m....   >>   16 Jun 2004   MS Access and VS.NET   If you're trying to design tables in Access and th....   >>      QA process for games   'I've never seen a console game hang...' I hadn....   >>   15 Jun 2004   Maybe It's Not That ....   'Where were all you whiny programmers when we text....   >>      Tech Interview Rant   'This just seems like another instance of programm....   >>      Today's Provocative ....   How about Log on / Un-log on    >>      Good reading while J....   The gratuitous swearing does add some interesting ....   >>   14 Jun 2004   Tech Interview Rant   'Consider two classes: Foo and Foo2. Each has a s....   >>         Not only that, but I think pointing out to the guy....   >>   11 Jun 2004   Water cooler   Whenever I've been sitting somewhere with my stuff....   >>   09 Jun 2004   Hiring programmers: ....   >>'There are a lot of competent Romanians and Roma....   >>      Value of resume data....   >>>> 'I'm always amazed that people don't feel it'....   >>   04 Jun 2004   Slacker Coworker   As I pointed out to my wife a while back, either t....   >>      Title of Book on Mot....   Read the book and you'll find out.  (I'm abou....   >>      IT is a great indust....   So perhaps the solution is for software companies ....   >>      Last word on pointer....   So what's your mother tongue?   >>   03 Jun 2004   questions to ask bef....   'Can I get time off on and around (important famil....   >>      what an article!   The author's article says he's a Mac user now. He....   >>      using opaque primary....   Those of you that use GUIDs: I've read that GUI....   >>         A few months ago I read an article advocating the ....   >>      Long-term prospects ....   'Not surprisingly, Visual C# and Visual J# pick up....   >>      Where's Joel?   I see your 1000-peso note and raise you 1000 lei (....   >>      This is ludicrous   I'm amused, because: (a) My wife works for the ....   >>         'And I'll add that people like you are the reasons....   >>         'If my company chooses to ignore blind people then....   >>         'Why cannot I choose my own market segment and say....   >>         'Simply because a law has been passed does not mea....   >>   02 Jun 2004      What is ludicrous?  That the disabled should ....   >>      Planning to give my ....   I second Herr Herr.  Have a slanging match, j....   >>      Passing args by refe....   'What I really need is an idiots guide to pointers....   >>   01 Jun 2004   Dell Laptops   '...small size and being as lightweight as possibl....   >>      Norah Jones   Return it to the store. Would you have bought i....   >>      Passing args by refe....   noob, this might help: http://pweb.netcom.com/~....   >>   28 May 2004   Should I retire?   You know, Anon, at $10,000 apiece, you could make ....   >>         Invest it, man!  Do you realize how many lott....   >>   27 May 2004   Company I work on wo....   Unverified backup tapes. You must have gotten my ....   >>         They pay you to program.  You program for a y....   >>   26 May 2004   Opening my mind   I mean, don't just _read_ it, but...well, you'll f....   >>         'How do you achieve a state of readiness where you....   >>      It's not what you kn....   I guess I'm bit confused: Why _wouldn't_ it have b....   >>   25 May 2004   Job-hunting fatigue.   >>   25 May 2004   interview situation   I side with those who say it sounds bad. They kne....   >>      Help is updating to ....   Surely you guys already searched Google Groups on ....   >>      Yet another cover le....   OK, but do cover letters serve any real purpose fo....   >>      new text entry metho....   You mean something like this, Stephen? http://w....   >>         I bet my Stowaway keyboard works better than Fital....   >>      Paul Graham's "Why N....   This topic brings back memories. I always tried t....   >>   24 May 2004   teach Procedural or ....   Start with procedural.  At its most atomic le....   >>   23 May 2004   Changing Windows XP   TweakUI for Windows XP will let you restrict which....   >>   21 May 2004   Question on VS.NET   Keeping mind, of course, that on eBay you get sell....   >>      VB and C   'dosomething(itemA, itemB) OR dosomething itemA,....   >>      Group-Phone-Hiring i....   In fact, tell them in those exact words, and then ....   >>   20 May 2004   IEEE: Japanese best,....   I'm skeptical of any such studies; every two progr....   >>      Learning Strategies   I had a college prof who advised, in order to lear....   >>      In retrospect, I sho....   Actually, since I'd just created the outline on th....   >>   19 May 2004   In retrospect, I should have known.   >>   19 May 2004   Tired of getting rip....   Actually, as far as books, I've found that those c....   >>   18 May 2004   Not really being hon....   Where do you live, Savage? Because I want to appl....   >>      insomnia   Also, if you drink stuff with caffeine in it, lay ....   >>   17 May 2004   How do You prefere t....   It depends. Palm OS software I usually don't mind....   >>      sierra gamers site   It was after they took away the typing option and ....   >>   15 May 2004   Why bonuses are NOT ....   Sounds excellent...but the cynical (or realist?) s....   >>   14 May 2004   Recruiter question......   And so much the better if your company name starts....   >>      Massive Windows Pain....   'Imagine trying to reactivate from an airplane (be....   >>   13 May 2004   Global Shortcut for ....   If Notepad's on your Start menu, then Win, N ....   >>      Massive Windows Pain....   Stephen, all that you say may be right, but as I (....   >>   12 May 2004      The last PC I bought was a Dell, and it came with ....   >>      Is it worth building....   Profuse apologies for poor wording. How about: ....   >>         Speaking as a former PC repair guy, if your Dell g....   >>   11 May 2004   Wanted: Article why ....   'BTW, last time I checked, WP format was a proprie....   >>         Actually, they hung on because WP could do the com....   >>         That's actually an article about how Word (suppose....   >>      Outsource workers wh....   Erhapspay eway ouldcay artstay ostingpay answersay....   >>         You sound like a bitter, angry man.  You need....   >>      What's a "Yhw."?   Joe appears to have had a career change since last....   >>      Free but good UML to....   'Also, you are not a renovator, so you were not de....   >>      Interview question f....   If said individual was willing to learn one langua....   >>   10 May 2004   kibibytes, methodolo....   Karel is hammering away so hard at this issue, I b....   >>   09 May 2004      The only people who get any use out of the notion ....   >>      Explain this to me......   It's not only programming.  I learned a forei....   >>   08 May 2004   A definition of spaghetti code...   >>   08 May 2004   Interview question f....   Real-life example:  I've done homework progra....   >>      What sort of profess....   The question, grunt, wasn't what recognition we _n....   >>   07 May 2004   Avoiding "chaining" ....   If the sequence is always the same, then encapsula....   >>      "magical" autoincrem....   I got bitten by something similar (at home) the ot....   >>      should i just leave ....   So is it impossible because of the timeframe, or i....   >>      What sort of profess....   To have the guys at the company I was a No-Hire at....   >>   06 May 2004   "If you're an employ....   Do you wear clothes to work, grunt, or are you cen....   >>         Blank, No, because I'm male, so in that case yo....   >>         Two thoughts: 1) You're extrapolating from you....   >>      Speech Recognition   I will second the good headset mike thing.  A....   >>      Snooping On Competit....   I'm unemployed; help me get a job with one of them....   >>      Google pop-up blocke....   While we're at it, did you try rebooting and see i....   >>   05 May 2004   Anyone use 'My Docum....   I use My Documents on my desktop (relocated to a d....   >>      PalmOne's priorities   It's not strange at all. Replacing a phone about ....   >>   04 May 2004   software registratio....   Give away a slightly-crippled or time-limited vers....   >>      PalmOne's priorities   That's been done several times, Stephen.  The....   >>         'It world be nice if they just sold these things a....   >>      MS offers Visual Bas....   Well I guess we're lucky it's not up to you, Simon....   >>   01 May 2004   Calling card site   You might be able to find something at www.abellto....   >>   30 Apr 2004   Gmail: Orwell meets ....   'By your twisted logic I can create a website whic....   >>      Learn better from in....   I don't know about this principle in programming, ....   >>      Give Work Away?   There are many other professions in which people g....   >>      Advice for a college....   Does your university offer a B.A., or only a B.S.?....   >>   29 Apr 2004   Eiffel programming l....   You can also get the Academic Version for about $1....   >>      IE page transitions   They remind me of Star Wars for some reason.   >>      Lack of social skill....   'People skills begin at infancy, an early age. You....   >>         On the "How ya doin'?" thing, the trouble with dev....   >>   28 Apr 2004   Do these sites look ....   Switching from Left-to-Right Document to Right-to-....   >>   27 Apr 2004   Programmed Death of ....   Get a bicycle.  Walking and working out are b....   >>   25 Apr 2004   Professional Courtes....   I think Joel's eventual detailed reply to that thr....   >>   23 Apr 2004   "handwritting" PDAs ....   Out of curiosity, if you don't understand why Palm....   >>      If not, why not ?   Because I don't know what LISP is useful for or wh....   >>      Uses for a really ol....   Give it to a kid who seems like a budding young pr....   >>      Looking for articles....   Actually, Damian, I think you inadvertently coined....   >>   21 Apr 2004   Difference between w....   So does anyone else think things have gotten waaaa....   >>      The big disadvantage....   On the contrary, Visual Basic .NET is more powerfu....   >>   19 Apr 2004   The big disadvantage about using VB .NET...   >>   19 Apr 2004   The card reader was ....   '...my very first programming job was for a Data G....   >>         What does spaghetti code have to do with storage s....   >>      world best known sof....   What about Blizzard, EA, 3DO, Ensemble Studios, an....   >>      Qualifications Now O....   How is everyone so sure he's at a strip-mall schoo....   >>         You can probably think of reasons to quit and stud....   >>      The big disadvantage....   'I really loved to work with VB Classic...But I wo....   >>         Which just goes to show how great VB is, because......   >>      what software to wri....   '...there are thousands of custom applications out....   >>      C-style variable def....   It actually wasn't so subtle that you needed to ex....   >>         Actually that's not true, Eric. You can learn to ....   >>      Windows Admin rights   Look at the bright side; at least they're a client....   >>   18 Apr 2004   fix and extend buggy....   Rewrite it from scratch, but keep the founder's co....   >>      The joy of a good ke....   No, it is true that optical mice can have crud col....   >>   15 Apr 2004   How to open ppt from....   What makes you think there would be a way to do th....   >>      How much experience ....   Where is this ideal world you speak of, and how ca....   >>      Piracy detection   Keeping in mind, of course, that the $89 version h....   >>   14 Apr 2004   Intro to Visual Stud....   http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/downloads/samples....   >>      How much experience ....   I've thought much about this, having just missed o....   >>      Piracy detection   Of course it says something about ethics.  Da....   >>         What prevents you from doing the prototype in VB6?....   >>         What language(s) are you writing the prototype in?   >>      What unemployment?   Maybe all the system admins already have jobs, sin....   >>   13 Apr 2004   C++ Hello world with....   I suspect some of you have forgotten the point of ....   >>   12 Apr 2004   Loyalty   'I think the loyalty Trump was referring to was mo....   >>   11 Apr 2004   Spelling and Coding   Careful attention to detail is only called anal-re....   >>      Tagging lookup table....   I use 'tbl' to prefix data tables and 'List' to pr....   >>   09 Apr 2004   Loyalty   Since I just got laid off (from a university, no l....   >>      Product names   I agree that you should come up with something dis....   >>      Fastest, easiest DB ....   Another vote for Access.  Even post-.NET.&nbs....   >>   08 Apr 2004   Keyboard Rant   'How about the insert button?' I use it in Acce....   >>      Team member goes Off....   'The CARING thing to do is to talk to the person. ....   >>         While I don't have advice on how to handle it, I s....   >>      Have you ever been f....   I left a job disgrunted once because they wouldn't....   >>      Is Access2000 suitab....   And of course, if you only sort-of know SQL Server....   >>      Windows PE   Generalizations are always wrong.   >>   07 Apr 2004   Why do people just w....   'And... of course I buy all my software. It costs ....   >>      Identity Theft?   This sort of thing happened to my parents once; th....   >>      LANDING A JOB   I got a job once a couple _months_ after I intervi....   >>   06 Apr 2004   Would you hire me?   Joe, if you want people to believe that you're not....   >>   02 Apr 2004   Defeating piracy wit....   How would you upgrade your CPU without breaking al....   >>      Arrggg!!   'If Trim(sPhoneRecord) <> '' Then sPhoneRecor....   >>      keeping the toothpas....   If I were such an incredible talent that I could t....   >>      Kinesis Contoured ke....   I've been using an MS Natural Keyboard for at leas....   >>   29 Mar 2004   binary xml - just sa....   'Dumping an arbitrary string of binary data into X....   >>   25 Mar 2004   LASIK vs PRK   Even if LASIK had only, say, a 0.1% failure rate, ....   >>   23 Mar 2004   Wives and Entreprene....   'Basically, I'm seeing this issue as 'she spends a....   >>      how did you find you....   University web site.  I looked because I was ....   >>   22 Mar 2004   Copyright disclaimer....   I agree with FullNameRequired.  Disclaimers n....   >>      Search Results Categ....   Isn't this one of the myriad problems XML is suppo....   >>      Access/MSDE question....   Hey, we all do that in one area or another; I'm ju....   >>         It didn't. You can still use Access 2000, 2002, e....   >>      Charles Simonyi is R....   'Dunno how the average American pronounces his nam....   >>   20 Mar 2004      Assuming it's standard Hungarian, it would be pron....   >>   18 Mar 2004   Hungarian Notation C....   Thanks for mentioning that.  I hadn't heard i....   >>      Pointers to learn Ja....   Another vote for immersion; I learned Romanian by ....   >>   17 Mar 2004   good books for Maste....   Er, can't you do that with just about any version ....   >>      What is a lot of res....   And as to why they would tell you this, it's simpl....   >>         You can tell they put a listing on Monster during ....   >>      Domotica application....   I think it would be cool to be able to log onto a ....   >>      JoS Forum's law   Plus, canings are probably a better deterrent than....   >>   16 Mar 2004   Tip of The Day: Usef....   The most useful Tips I ever encountered were in Wa....   >>      Someone working for ....   Bought from the grocery store; a good brand, but s....   >>   15 Mar 2004   Bad Programming Team....   Serious question:  What will it cost you to g....   >>      Immigration and comp....   So far as doctors in the US, I know one from Vietn....   >>      Another usability qu....   I'm with Lou.  Give a recommendation, and nex....   >>      Someone working for ....   Sorry.  I have a thing about vague questions.....   >>         Sign up with them and don't worry about it. The s....   >>      Outsourcing has been....   'Cheapness is not the reason... This is also th....   >>         'Cobblers, tailors, blacksmiths, were all very hig....   >>   13 Mar 2004   Could this installer....   I've done it recently enough that I recall it taki....   >>   12 Mar 2004   Another critical fix....   Ooh, ooh, can I play? I love this game! Let's ....   >>      RentAcoder   I imagine in a place like Romania or India you cou....   >>      What is the logic be....   'the uncertainty of whether you'll be one of the l....   >>         There are two different kinds of mail-in rebate. ....   >>      How to collaborate o....   'No more casual collaboration. That sucks.' Wh....   >>         IANAL, but I agree that a legal framework is the b....   >>      Lower Wages Is The S....   Who decides what's artificial and what's real in w....   >>         If _you_ ran one of those companies, would _you_ a....   >>         Anon, I think you could benefit from what Joel sai....   >>      I've been blogged...   I am dying to know exactly what he said about your....   >>   11 Mar 2004   Data generation   Sounds like a market niche to me.   >>      Feel of working at F....   Those we have already.  :)   >>      JOS and spam   Hope that e-mail address you replied from wasn't o....   >>      Bizarre Situation   '[Recruiters] get 0 dollars if you've previously a....   >>   10 Mar 2004   Converting wizard.   'However, it's an obstacle preventing more sales.'....   >>   09 Mar 2004   Starting a Company- ....   What sort of market research did you do?  Did....   >>      Access or SQL server   Based on an e-mail he sent me, Cosmo seems to want....   >>         'A web application'? This sounds like one of th....   >>      salary on current jo....   '... the employer has to know at least how much to....   >>         At my dad's company they ask for salary history AN....   >>      Is this harassment?   I don't think it was Nazis per se; I think, rather....   >>         It's interesting how extremist each side of this d....   >>   08 Mar 2004   Nielsen is getting o....   I'm betting Karthik was kid #12.   >>      What's the deal with....   As I understand it, it's because leaving some thin....   >>         Actually it seems like a very good question becaus....   >>      not in my job descri....   On the other hand, do you really want the responsi....   >>      Microsoft customer s....   I cancelled two credit cards on Thursday. The fir....   >>         But for every one of you, there's surely a hundred....   >>      Is this harassment?   My dear fellow, if police could search any house t....   >>         'Sometimes I feel like I am living in a world of l....   >>         Physical conditions can profoundly affect one's mo....   >>         IMHO the hairy chest comment was stupid but unimpo....   >>      Popup help for the f....   I think "What's This?" should be narrowly focused ....   >>   07 Mar 2004   How come Yahoo conta....   'Perhaps the dictionary 'attack' is valid as you'd....   >>      Gwyn's "Why won't yo....   'Google only returns 850,000+ hits for 'web based ....   >>   26 Feb 2004   Blue background + An....   I always program in proportional-spaced fonts. I ....   >>   24 Feb 2004   Is there a name for ....   'In my experience, there's actually *three* levels....   >>         'I was trying to explain to a new C++ programmer t....   >>      Ultralights   I like my Dell Latitude X200. Nine or ten hours o....   >>      End User License Agr....   Probably it did, but I did have to talk to three d....   >>         You might also want to read this, though, ... h....   >>      Menu UI   Pick whichever option gives you the lowest tap cou....   >>   21 Feb 2004   Objects Flamewar   'It's not that you can reuse the OBJECT. It's that....   >>   20 Feb 2004   Personal Cell & ....   'What constitutes an emergency?' would be my first....   >>      my bizarre firing si....   '...[the manager] said 'f*** what is good for the ....   >>         'name withheld', the etymology of a word is not th....   >>         Don't insist the guy be fired. That lacks class. ....   >>      To computer addicts   That's a rather cutthroat way to live, Martha.&nbs....   >>   19 Feb 2004   System Restoration D....   When I saw 'system restoration disks' my kneejerk ....   >>         What a pessimist I am. You're surely doing them f....   >>         I don't know of any technologies for them... but I....   >>      To computer addicts   Um...I can convert Celsius to Fahrenheit, and vice....   >>   17 Feb 2004   Middle Click Scrolli....   What kind of mouse do you have?  Have you dow....   >>      Salary rate for a 6 ....   If I had five years' experience on VB 6 and one ye....   >>         'Didn't VB 6.0 ship in September of 1998? With ....   >>      JOS Worldwide Meetup....   Daca eram la Bucuresti, Alex, veniam si eu.   >>   16 Feb 2004   Uses for a PDA   Some of what I use my PDA for, I could do with a r....   >>   14 Feb 2004   Free legal advise   IANAL, but I'd say if they're stupid enough to pay....   >>   13 Feb 2004   I am being setup as ....   'Hey, if you're too good to work on this code, the....   >>      Group Policy changes   Can't the view be set per user? Can't the support....   >>      palm graffitti quest....   'Even with all this practice, [Graffiti]'s still s....   >>         I find Graffiti easy enough for short notes, but f....   >>      Win XP vs Win2K   I think the auto-hiding in Office could have been ....   >>      Why do we have # and....   'A bit off topic, but since someone brought up Fis....   >>   12 Feb 2004   Dim statement As Ann....   '...by convention, VB coders are expected to decla....   >>         You can type let x = 3 but when you move off....   >>      You and your classma....   I was depressed before a recent 10-year reunion, w....   >>   11 Feb 2004   Now, that really ann....   You know what? I apologize. Vlad, I am rathe....   >>         'Kyralessa, do you find that calling people in thi....   >>         I'll tell you what the problem is. I'm a programm....   >>   10 Feb 2004   MS Word and Find mac....   So...any luck?   >>   09 Feb 2004   Why does the boot pr....   Suspend leaves the fans running, but hibernate sho....   >>   06 Feb 2004   source of phone/hand....   Write for Palm OS.  Then expand to other plat....   >>      Where is JD Edwards?   I'm guessing he owes you money.   >>      MS Word and Find mac....   Maybe try cutting out Pages:='' and see what....   >>   04 Feb 2004   Help with English tr....   If the guy were smart he'd've posted the link and ....   >>      O.K. What's so bad a....   That's deep, man.   >>         My wife is Hungarian, so Hungarian Notation must b....   >>      whats wrong wiv this....   I'll bet you had a better command of written Engli....   >>         She'll get reamed there worse than here if she pos....   >>         'There are no 19 year old girls that I know of tha....   >>         'if you explicitly declare all your recordsets 'As....   >>         These two lines... strname = 'product id = Me!p....   >>      Oracle - where to be....   I'll go with a Windows version instead of Linux, b....   >>      Please, a good prese....   Here's a presentation with some good ideas you cou....   >>      DVDs and customer ab....   '...when the lights go down and they just shown a ....   >>   03 Feb 2004   Oracle - where to begin?   >>   03 Feb 2004      I watch DVDs on my PC, and the same thing happens;....   >>   30 Jan 2004   The internet has mad....   I know they "reward" you if you're stupid enough t....   >>      Resources for learni....   '...the most idiotic thing in COBOL...You have to ....   >>   28 Jan 2004   Department of Homela....   Kentasy, your definition of spam seems to be diffe....   >>   27 Jan 2004   Gay men on the plane....   Mark, did you grab that poster and run it by the E....   >>   26 Jan 2004   Destroying Resumes i....   Which is the same reason many companies make you w....   >>      Resumes are arbitrar....   'I think that world class professionals should be ....   >>         Still, most of Joel's article addressed things lik....   >>      Job Postings - Getti....   'The statement targetted at Indian's though, or so....   >>         Were Hemingway or Shaw applying to programmer jobs....   >>      I wish I could read ....   ...not that I'm holding my breath.   >>         I agree; with names and contact info blacked out, ....   >>   25 Jan 2004   Upcoming VS.NET   One nice thing about coding in VB: less coding sno....   >>   21 Jan 2004   reference not there   You did try calling directory assistance, right?   >>      For Sale: Abstract B....   Genius is 1% inspiration... Let us know how the....   >>   20 Jan 2004   Please enter... with....   'So the user spends a week trying to figure out wh....   >>      Worst IE Bug I have ....   'Do you want something done right Or do you want ....   >>   16 Jan 2004   is there any point t....   I've done Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Romanian, French, ....   >>      Ergonomic chairs?   I have been tempted to get one of those knees-and-....   >>      Code Complete 2   Send it to me and I'll compare it to my copy of th....   >>         The site clarifies that it's not "Code Complete 2"....   >>   15 Jan 2004   What's so special ab....   The receptionist at the front of the office has be....   >>   08 Jan 2004   JoS readers in Budap....   My wife is Hungarian. Ethnically. She's a Romani....   >>   09 Dec 2003   Chest Pain ... Am I ....   I predict that seeing someone ask a medical questi....   >>      Rulers   I think they'd be better if you could customize wh....   >>   08 Dec 2003   Role Fragmentation   You might want to try Germany; I hear there they'v....   >>         I have to suspect that if you shoot the jobless, y....   >>      "Secret Question" Pa....   Which brings up one great point about useless logi....   >>   25 Nov 2003   Continuous income fo....   Every so often release a major upgrade with so man....   >>      Does Programming mak....   Yes, there should. Anal-retentively yours,    >>         Maybe I'm not so analytical about things because I....   >>      Low-Tech User Manual....   This is one thing I've always liked about Dell: Yo....   >>      IT is being moved to....   'Currently I'm working on obtaining, from our univ....   >>   21 Nov 2003      Currently I'm working on obtaining, from our unive....   >>         No, using fake SSNs is not an option; they already....   >>         I can beat that. Our university contracts with ....   >>   13 Nov 2003   How does one join MP....   'On the web, people advise to just concatenate the....   >>   08 Nov 2003   Where to Buy Visual ....   Take a course at a local college; then you can buy....   >>   07 Nov 2003   Can MS sell the lock....   'It seems that it would be too disruptive to becom....   >>      Amazon Sucks Now   Actually, the text search is a brilliant idea. ....   >>   05 Nov 2003   Recommend an ergonom....   '2). Standard layout of arrow and 'Ins/Del/Home/E....   >>      Well, iTunes may be ....   'The last CD I bought won't play on my PC. It sou....   >>   22 Oct 2003   WinXP boot problems.....   This is why I always ask what CDs you get along wi....   >>   21 Oct 2003   Ever thought of givi....   Of course...and usually in those cases I do give u....   >>   08 Oct 2003   are there any true "....   And now that I look back again, I think I misread ....   >>         Now that I look back, that was a tad vague, wasn't....   >>         I would think that companies that produce commerci....   >>   03 Oct 2003   should stupid people....   Coincidentally, I was just reading a book on Jaime....   >>   30 Sep 2003   How to behave in soc....   Where is "around here"?   >>   11 Sep 2003   demo violates IP agr....   Oh, well, if you're paid crappily, then that autom....   >>   25 Aug 2003   from textbook to rea....   'what a depressing thought. why does no one eve....   >>   26 Jun 2003   Perhaps a redundant ....   Did you really have to use the word "redundant"?&n....   >>   19 Jun 2003   ask JoS:: New mobile....   No experience with the Treo 270, but my wife has t....   >>   10 Jun 2003   Procrastination = no....   That's not procrastination; that's just setting a ....   >>   21 May 2003   Cheap tech booxs?   I've found, oddly enough, that Amazon.co.uk has st....   >>   19 May 2003   What ever happened t....   I don't think "fixes various security issues" is r....   >>   12 May 2003   The excel to access ....   Save each Excel spreadsheet as a CSV file; you can....   >>   24 Apr 2003   Do you make your money honestly?   >>   24 Apr 2003   Good Commercials   'Unfortunately, I can't give you a good example of....   >>   23 Apr 2003   Experience   ' 'Where can I find one of those jobs?' ' 'at a....   >>      Evil Wizards   I don't think you need to understand VB .NET GUI c....   >>      Thoughts on Amazon A....   I'm in the U.S. but I buy a fair number from .co.u....   >>   22 Apr 2003   Directory Viewer...   'Folder Size Shell Extension' (you should search f....   >>   21 Apr 2003   Why auto tab-ahead o....   Actually an IPv4 address is a perfect example of w....   >>   19 Apr 2003   An answer from a for....   Get over it, Stephen. Why don't you take up chewi....   >>   18 Apr 2003   URL that matches pro....   Is it important to have the URL which matches your....   >>   17 Apr 2003   An answer from a for....   For the 1% who have never flown before.   >>         I would imagine that technical manuals and books s....   >>   16 Apr 2003   What to do about sle....   The only time I've had really serious problems wit....   >>      Why auto tab-ahead o....   Once upon a time I had to take a data entry test a....   >>   15 Apr 2003   New Law... websites ....   Despite the ostensibly admirable qualities of this....   >>   13 Apr 2003   "80/20" Rule   Stephen, Before you say that, you should read t....   >>   11 Apr 2003   startup company offe....   I once rented the upstairs of a rabbi's widow's ho....   >>   09 Apr 2003   Fax reception provid....   Sorry.  I have a bad habit of answering the q....   >>         Upon perusing their web site, I note with dismay t....   >>   08 Apr 2003   This is SPAM.   Out of curiosity, I checked my Yahoo Mail box and ....   >>   04 Apr 2003   Salary history   >>   04 Apr 2003   If you were not a de....   Church history scholar.