Archive for April, 2006

Updated: A9 switched to live.com?

Edited 5/1/06: As pointed out by Peter, it looks like A9 doesn’t include either the standard Google search or the Google Images search as options. It’s not locale related, as his experience matches mine. Guess I’m going back to google.com directly, although I’ll miss the parallel searches.
Before I start let me explain why I use [...]

timezones, UTC

Time zones are a major source of annoyance for me, when writing code or working with databases that store time-keyed data. It’s especially irritating when you have to deal with the abomination that is daylight savings time.
So, I’ve finally decided to go ahead and set my server clocks to UTC (or GMT). It wasn’t hard [...]

jpgraph, SetFont

jpgraph is a pretty slick tool. It makes nice looking charts and graphs, and it is very easy to use. You simply pass it an array and it can draw it. Many other tools require serious data massaging and configuration to simply display a simple graph.
However, it’s hard to use your own truetype fonts. I [...]

Immigration

If illegal immigrants become legal Americans, will they continue to work in agriculture, where they’ve worked now for a relative lack of other options, or will they try to move on to other better paying careers? I’d try to move on, or at least start expecting more money (even if I didn’t get it).
I also [...]

“unless otherwise stated” in shorthand?

I’m trying to figure out what the common phrase “unless otherwise stated” or “unless otherwise specified” would be in shorthand. It’d probably something Latin like etc or ie/eg. “nisi cetera” or “nisi secus” is as close as I can get, using online Latin/English dictionaries, and without any knowledge whatever of the Latin language.
I could just [...]