I just logged an incident at our facility management about the lights in our department. And because they have a nice system, I got a direct reply via the mail, stating that my call will be done around noon tomorrow. What made this automated reply a bit strange, was that the incident I logged states: "Many lights are broken.". And I suspect that this will still be the case by tomorrow afternoon.
So that's an easy way to close a call,
Zaaf
Hi all,
Just a small note to inform you that I've compiled a new GNU Emacs for Mac OSX 10.5 for x86. You can find the .dmg here. It's a brand new version, freshly compiled from cvs sources, with version number 23.0.60.
Interesting bit about the Emacs version numbering is that Richard Stallman decided to do away with minor versioning and treat every version as a major version. This explains the high number 23, which according to RMS should be read as 1.23. However, it seems human nature to have major and minor version number, as can be seen from the current number.
Zaaf 2.0.1
A few days ago our team went to a day long offsite meeting. And since no one at work has a laptop, I was charged to bring my trusty MacBook Pro. Every teammember had prepared a few slides about a topic that's near to his work heart. Each presentation consisted only of a few slides, but since they all sparked a discussion of dozens of minutes, the day was easily filled.
The most interesting experience, however, was not the discussion of the topics, but the way in which each of us did our presentation. Next to bringing my MacBook Pro, I had brought my wireless mighty mouse. And whenever someone was due to present, he would stay seated, receive the mouse and start his talk. At the end of the day, we were all yelling for the mouse in the same way someone would yell for the remote controle of the TV.
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I just read the news that the US government bailout of banks has risen to $8.5 trillion. This seems like a very large number. So large in fact that it seems unreal.
So let's take another look at that number. In yesterdays news, it was announced that the French government started construction of a 106km long canal in the north of France. This will connect Paris with the harbour of Antwerp, and therefore Rotterdam. The proposed project costs are EUR 4.2 billion. Suppose that the real cost of making this canal will be more around EUR 8.5 billion and suppose dollar-euro parity, this means that for the price of the US Governement bailout you can create 1000 similar canals.
That's 106,000 kilometers, or two-and-a-half times around the earth.
Now that is what I call perspective,
Zaaf
