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NPR : OK and Other Expressions

Morning Edition, March 23, 2007 · On this day in 1839, the expression OK appeared for the first time in a publication — the Boston Morning Post. One possible origin of the phrase is that it was an abbreviation for slang used by teenagers: "Oll Korrect." Other expressions kids made popular at the time: "GTT" stood for Going to Texas and "KY" for "know youse." OK is the only one that survived the centuries.

You Don't Know Jack is Back

"Full episodes of You Don't Know Jack, one of the best party games ever made, are up and running online"

How To Create Embed Image Mail In Gmail

1) Put the image online if it isn't already.

2) Open the image as a url (e.g., http://www.xkcd.com/pi.jpg)

3) "once its loaded in your browser, drag your mouse across the image so the whole image gets selected or highlighted (it would turn dark to indicate that it is successfully highlighted/selected). don't miss that part."

4) Right click->Copy.

5) Go to your Gmail message and Right Click->Paste.

Evidemment

Text* Snippets: TextDrive Snippets courtesy of Peter Coopers handy little app

"Snippets is a public source code repository. Easily build up your personal collection of code snippets, categorize them with tags / keywords, and share them with the world (or not, you can keep them private!)"

Modify Hidden Preferences in Firefox

Found it on clipmarks

DBMS_APPLICATION_INFO

"If developers used the DBMS_APPLICATION_INFO package to instrument their code it would make mine that their life much easy. The package allows you to specify a Module and Action for the current position in the code. This can be monitored externally using V$SESSION and also appears in V$SQLAREA to allow you to match SQL to a module.You can also use the package to put your own progress information in V$SESSION_LONGOPS."

SOCO &Lime

From an ad in the March '07 issue of SPIN:

1. What you NEED: Southern Comfort, ice, & sweetened lime juice
2. Start with ICE. POUR 1/4 part of sweetened lime juice then 1 part of SoCo
3. SHAKE IT, SHAKE IT
4. STRAIN & ENJOY! (for x-tra POP, add soda or cola)
   

Local Weather Maps

"The Weather Channel . . . has partnered with Microsoft Corp. to offer detailed road maps combined with satellite imagery. The result is an interactive Web map that lets users zoom in to get a localized snapshot of current weather. That is, to see how it's affecting their neighborhood — not just the city as a whole."

from news.yahoo.com