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ventaWell, I promised trivia from The Calendar, and here's the first bit. It's not relevant to anything but it interested me.
Schott's Calendar seems to provide a random burst of information each day, coupled with a note of something completely unconnected which happened on this day in another year. Today it offers me a list of 70s Christmas number ones, and tells me that the first international distress call (CQD) was established in 1904 on Jan 7th.
I'd never heard of CQD before, but found this page on Wikipedia about it. It suggests CQD stood for nothing, but was developed from the radio operators' habit of using CQ to mean "seek you" - so CQD was "Seek You, Danger". Nice to see that applications like ICQ are still sticking to century-old traditions.
My only gripe so far with this calendar is that it doesn't have the day of the week on it, thus leaving me permanently slightly unsure whether I've ripped off the correct number of days, and whether it really is the 7th of January today. The daily trivia is otherwise delightful - and there's something very debonaire about writing one's shopping list on the back of a page listing the horsemen of the Apocalypse.
Schott's Calendar seems to provide a random burst of information each day, coupled with a note of something completely unconnected which happened on this day in another year. Today it offers me a list of 70s Christmas number ones, and tells me that the first international distress call (CQD) was established in 1904 on Jan 7th.
I'd never heard of CQD before, but found this page on Wikipedia about it. It suggests CQD stood for nothing, but was developed from the radio operators' habit of using CQ to mean "seek you" - so CQD was "Seek You, Danger". Nice to see that applications like ICQ are still sticking to century-old traditions.
My only gripe so far with this calendar is that it doesn't have the day of the week on it, thus leaving me permanently slightly unsure whether I've ripped off the correct number of days, and whether it really is the 7th of January today. The daily trivia is otherwise delightful - and there's something very debonaire about writing one's shopping list on the back of a page listing the horsemen of the Apocalypse.
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Date: 2005-01-07 11:38 am (UTC)I never knew that.
See, I am useful
Date: 2005-01-07 12:22 pm (UTC)In a related question, does anybody know whether it's possible for firefox to display tabs in a smaller space than the entire firefox window?
In Opera, if you want to compare two web pages, you just open them as two different tabs, and then tell Opera to tile the tabs within the current window. Voila: you get two web pages side by side.
Last night's equivalent acttion with firefox involved opening the second web page in a new window and using the Tile Windows from the taskbar. Of course, this requires minimising all the unwanted windows first.
Re: See, I am useful
Date: 2005-01-07 02:02 pm (UTC)You're not allowed to whinge about operations that require only one mouseclick.
Re: See, I am useful
Date: 2005-01-07 02:40 pm (UTC)Windows-M to minimize all the windows.
Right-click + Restore on the taskbar for each window you didn't want to minimize.
That's considerable more than one.
(And then Windows-Shift-M to restore all the original windows afterward.)
But you're sidestepping my original question.
Re: See, I am useful
Date: 2005-01-07 02:56 pm (UTC)No, I'm ignoring it because I don't know the answer. I've not come across anything in Firefox which suggests to me that it's possible.
Re: See, I am useful
Date: 2005-01-07 03:00 pm (UTC)Eh? What's wrong with left-click?
Re: See, I am useful
Date: 2005-01-07 03:35 pm (UTC)You're right. I'd got confused in the specific circumstances.
Re: See, I am useful
Date: 2005-01-07 04:05 pm (UTC)