"When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal." - Richard M. Nixon

Silly us, we thought the President had to follow the laws. Clearly, we were wrong.

So what does that make this? Libyagate? Wargagate?

These days all businesses are required to have doors that open outward, primarily due to the Cocoanut Grove fire way back in 1942, which killed 492 people.

Effectively what occurred is many of the exit signs were obscured, and there were no doors that opened outward. This caused massive traffic jams as people futilely attempted to escape the fire.

Quite a sad story.

Here's the wikipedia link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocoanut_Grove_fire

Here's an example of such a law from the Oregon state fire code: https://www.oregonlaws.org/ors/479.150.html

Probably about the same they thought about it a thousand years ago, perhaps?

Or they just don't change the formula all that much no matter where you go.

Around here (Seattle) we're lucky to see it snow once or twice a year, and there's only one or two months a year where it gets really cold. I've never seen it get colder than the 20's.

Of course, this is also the city where they decided when we got almost two feet of snow this winter (a very rare event) that they weren't going to use salt because it might 'hurt the environment.' That plan didn't work out so well...

This is why at my work place our pair programming stations have mirrored monitors (with two sets of keyboards and mice).

There can certainly be some contention when both programmers try to do something simultaneously, but most of the time you simply trade off doing things.

This prevents utter boredom from enveloping either developer. If one of us wants to do something, we just do it.

Caveats include having the video card power necessary to drive a mirrored monitor setup.

That's why I found it interesting when looking through the settings for Left 4 Dead that they provide a 'color blind' option. Switching it on apparently swaps the color of the health bars etc. to a color that's more easily visible for these people.

This is the first time I've seen such an option in a game, and I think it's a cool trend I'd like to see continue.