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...or something along those lines.

Not sure if you can use a string for a switch statement

This is just syntactic sugar in .NET actually. If you look at the IL it compiles to, for short switch blocks, it's a set of if statements; for longer ones, it creates a Dictionary and then does TryGetValue.

You can't do:

int i = null;

...in C# either. You can do:

int? i = null;

...though. I was sceptical at first, but it is a genuinely useful way of indicating the absence of a value when dealing with, for example, stuff that has come out of a database.

What, you mean, MONTH/DAY/YEAR bothers you? It's just a convention.

Yes, and a fucking stupid one, which causes no end of pain. What does 3/12/2009 mean in a bit of text? To most of the world, it means 3rd December 2009. But, for some bizarre reason, it means 12th March 2009 in America. The result? It is impossible to determine whether a given date is in sane or bizarre format for values of dd < 13. The only meaningful date format now is the Asian format (yyyy-mm-dd), which is the ISO standard.

Some will argue that this is because you say "March 12th", but I'm sure you also say "ten past nine", and you don't write that 10:9. Why? Oh yes, because that would be stupid.

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It is now, but it wasn't. A British billion used to be 1,000,000,000,000.

Or was interpreted differently. 1,000,000,000-as-billion is pretty much standard here now, at least in this limey's experience. Ordinarily I would lament such a happening, but the world is better served by a consistent definition of "billion".

Now if only you guys could sort your stupid date format out, we'd be set...

Not sure what CacheViewer is, but on Safari, there is ClickToFlash to block Flash, which is wonderful (and, IIRC, very similar to FlashBlock). And one can turn off JavaScript in the preferences, if one is suitably paranoid...

Heck, my old (circa-1991) Latitude did 1680x1050...

Bullshit. Pure bullshit. You're off by about a fucking decade...

In that fragment you undermine everything else you have say.

Not sure about on Windows, but on the Mac, it doesn't install the VoiceOver Kit unless you have one of the new Shuffles. I was a bit disappointed by this, as I would quite like my Mac to be able to speak something other than English.

Interestingly, Japanese Mac keyboards still use that very layout. Though the addition of a couple of extra buttons either side of the space bar for switching between English and Japanese might put you off a bit...

:)