Raymond Chen‘s blog has lots of fascinating anecdotes about the Windows GUI – where did the “Start” button come from? Is that thingie really called the “System Tray”? Why is there an internal function in one of the DLLs called “bunny”? Chen explains the origins of these (and other) Windows 95 peculiarities.
Month: September 2003
Calanya has a plea for his fellow LiveJournal users: Please make Dotan your friend! I must concur. Please do!
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PHP blog tool: Pivot
Pivot is a PHP-based weblogging tool that stores it’s data in XML serialized PHP objects, not in a database. I’m going to give it a spin.
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Game game
Heidi blogs last night’s game session: yaghvali.blog-city.com we’re living in a wonderland.
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New York 1888
Some links from googling for New York 1888:
- A Hashish-House In New York (1888)
- Blizzard of 1888:
The Blizzard of 1888 lasted 36 hours and began on March 12. New York City was virtually isolated when snow halted transportation and disrupted communications. Messages to Boston were relayed via England [Enc Am Facts & Dates] National Geographic 1888 I:37.
- 19th Century Skyscrapers.