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We're up to what, five threads on vanity plates that people have bought? So how about an anti-vanity thread -- where you post plates (real or ficticious) that people probably don't want on their cars. Here's a real one: NOPLATE This owner received several hundred citations in the mail, because...

21 different accents in 2-1/2 minutes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UgpfSp2t6k Pretty amazing. The Charlestonian accent is a bit exaggerated, but the others seem to be right on. Chip H. ____________________________________________________________________ www.chipholland.com

I'm in the process of finding someone to rent my house while I'm working elsewhere, and the realtor from the rental agency insisted that a screened-in porch was spelled "screen-in porch". Or sometimes "screen porch" Anyone see other variations on this...

Looking for a Mac file diff/comparison utility. For years I've used BeyondCompare on Windows, and I'm looking for a functional equivalent on OS X. (Want to tie it into Subversion so I can compare versions of my sourcefiles) Thanks in advance. Chip H...

When referring to the clones of 3M's trademarked Post-It notepads. What's the rule for the trailing noun in a compound word like this? Hmmm. Should it be hyphenated instead? Chip H. ____________________________________________________________________ If you want to get the best response to...

The story I heard was that the name came from Blondie's song "Rapture". ____________________________________________________________________ If you want to get the best response to a question, please read FAQ222-2244 first

Here's one I just dreamed up. The state of North Carolina, like many US states, issues 'affinity' license plates for cars, where you can show your support for endangered species, sports teams, universities, etc. They differentiate these from regular plates by putting a logo on them of the...

I helped man my company's booth at a local job fair the other week. We had this person come up and after listening to them speak for a few minutes, all I could think was "You may be the best in the world at what you do, but there's no way I'm going to put you in front of a customer" Their...

faq732-6348 has been added to the FAQ section. This FAQ (which may not be that frequently asked...) shows how to create a Visual Studio 2003 template for singleton classes. If you find yourself creating a lot of singleton classes, it gets tedious retyping the same boilerplate code every time...

faq732-6346 talks about using public const vs. using public static readonly when defining public constants. Chip H. ____________________________________________________________________ If you want to get the best response to a question, please read FAQ222-2244 first

For those people using Roland Weigelt's GhostDoc, there's a known problem with the installer under Windows Vista. To get around this, go to the Visual Studio 2005 tools under the Start menu, and right-click on the CommandPrompt menu item, and select "Run As Administrator". Now change...

I had a debate at work about whether OK is an acronym (and thus spelled all upper-case), a word (and thus lower/mixed case), or neither (??). Opinions? Chip H. ____________________________________________________________________ If you want to get the best response to a question, please read...

OK, here's another money-related question (everyone's favorite topic!). How many ways can you make change for a dollar? The basic thing to know is that there are 100 pennies to the dollar (kudos to Ben Franklin for decimalization of the currency). For those not from the US, here's our coinage...

I thought this was interesting. Especially the sections on national work ethic, women in the workplace, and education. http://www.carlisle.army.mil/usawc/parameters/98spring/peters.htm Chip H. ____________________________________________________________________ If you want to get the best...

A new forum has been added to Tek-Tips for the Subversion version control system. forum1556 Chip H. ____________________________________________________________________ If you want to get the best response to a question, please read FAQ222-2244 first

A forum has been added for the Subversion version control system: forum1556 Chip H. ____________________________________________________________________ If you want to get the best response to a question, please read FAQ222-2244 first

If you want to hide your answers from casual observation, put them in a TGML code block, with color tags inside set to white. So, do something like this: Here's my secret answer The readers of the forum can then read the answer by highlighting the code block with their mouse. Here's a...

A new forum has been created called Puzzles For Programmers ( forum1551 ) The (preliminary, non-exclusive, subject to expansion and/or alteration, may be void in your region) rules for the forum are: 1. Should pose a puzzle that requires some programming effort. Algorithms are welcome too...

Is there a mission statement for this forum? I know that it's genesis was the puzzles posed on the SQL Server forum, but are there limitations as to languages/technologies used in posing puzzles? And, what are the consequences for people posing non-puzzles -- questions that rightfully belong...

faq796-5496 has been updated. Chip H. ____________________________________________________________________ If you want to get the best response to a question, please read FAQ222-2244 first