So, if to sign something is to attempt to communicate an idea to another individual or group with the use of a signed language, then the word "Signed" can be rendered spoken, said, or communicated if you are using a spoken language.

Well to make a long story short hot and cold air make steal expand and contract. Also, steal is a pour insulator. Not only did this house pop, creak, and groan when ever the heat or AC was turned on, the house needed them all the time because it got full sun in summer and high wind exposure in winter and the whole structure was built like a giant heat sink.

The lesson of this story? Design for functionality first, and if your design is highly functional it will have a cool all it's own.

One of the want-to-be gangsters decided it was time to slap a 10 year old around because of this. My friend politely explained that he didn't want to fight, and that the kid across the street was a jerk, but it was too late. Some one was going to get a beating down. Thankfully my friend COULD kick the living snot out of a 17 year old without any problem. He threw the 17year old over his shoulder and pinned him down, and then explained again very politely that he was not a fighter and asked him very nicely to go away.

The jerk came back in about an hour with his gang and started throwing stuff at the house and yelling to come out and have a clean fight. My friend got rid of them by holding up the phone to the window and shouting "I'm calling the cops right now" and then shouting "9....1....1..." They all took off runing and we never saw them again.

We are in our 30s now and his calm, peaceful ways have only gotten more so. He has relay earned my respect.

A fourth of July is nice.
A fifth of Scotch is better.

Speaking on behalf of the interests of the RIAA & MPAA, it is clear to us that this "new" protocol will be used only for the piracy of copyrighted materials. Sure, downloading a DVD using this protocol might seem like harmless way to pass the summer months, but the damage to our industry is incalculable. And although we are headed for another record year, we calculate that this has clearly cost us over $10 billion dollars in losses and must be stopped.

Sincerely,
Jack Valenti
(Yes, I know I'm dead. Want to make something of it?)

Just last week I got a notice to "upgrade" TACO to 3.0 and foolishly did so. A tiny little 8KB add-on became a 3MB disaster. Now it has new features which clash with other add ons or were redundant for me. Music streaming was broken for some sites and best of all, the old version, while available (and compatible), will no longer install on Firefox 3.6.

After uninstalling it, I downloaded the source for 2.0 and was planning attempt a fix, but now I don't have to. Obviously someone else was just as irritated, to that individual I say, "Thank you."