Fairfax County, VA has been referred to as the "Silicon Valley of the East", so someone thinks there's a bit here (for instance, AOL started in next-door Loudoun County, VA) -- not to mention that a number of defence contractors that now also do IT are in the area.

I think that the point was that the day the clocks go back is 4% longer than any other day, because of the time change, and therefore, on average, 4% more heart attacks occur on that day compared to any other day.

Due to what I assume is a typo on that page, Googlebot is not excluded from reading any pages on the site...

qdbus org.kde.amarok /Player Play looks like it will do the former (note: I'm running trunk here, so YMMV), but I don't know if they have a dbus interface for the latter yet. Also, you might need to set up the right environment variables for that to work.

For some reason unknown to mere mortals, my keyboard only has a LeftWin key, and no RightWin key, so I have LeftWin mapped to Super_L, and the Menu key as Multi_Key (Compose).

I don't know what the problem is. Something happens almost every 200 pages.

Proper spanish translation is "Estadounidense".

They use it in Ecuador as well. I lived and worked there for most of 1998, Spanish being my working language. With no alternative languages to use my Spanish got quite good in the end, to the point that people from Spain could easily identify where I learnt it (Ecuador o Peru). They used "estadounidense" as an adjective for people from the U.S., and generally inferred that you meant something/someone from South America if you said "americano/a". Using "americano" about someone from the U.S. was plain wrong, they didn't get annoyed, most just didn't understand what you meant.

By the way, the Argentinian dialect of Spanish is by far the coolest one I've heard. It's to Spanish what the Scottish accent is to English :)

I doubt that. Usually DATA statements were read in a for loop that assumed a length of the data, so deleting anything would result in

?OUT OF DATA ERROR AT line#

You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means.

Even better: that "import" statement just tells the compiler how to resolve names: All names in the output .class file are fully qualified, and only the classes actually referenced by the code need be loaded. If you have an import statement that isn't used, or that pulls too much; it becomes irrelevant at runtime. Also, you don't actually have to import any classes; you may refer to them by their fully qualified names, and the exact same .class file is output either way.