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Is more security a solution?
I just heard on the news that the TSA and local police were beefing up more security at the Detroit airport. For off, this sounds like closing the barn door after the horses have left. Second off, the flight didn't originate from Detroit (it didn't even originate in this country)! So adding more security in Detroit won't help flights coming into the airport. Wow, brilliant.
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Valuing my business
I've been a Bank of America customer for many years (I actually started with Security Pacific in 1991 which Bank of America bought). I'm in the process of moving my home loan to another bank because BofA's rates are pretty awful. As such, I lose my free "Prima Checking" account. So, I'm closing all my BofA accounts and moving them elsewhere where I don't have to worry about fees. Well, the problem with that is I also have a safe deposit box at BofA and in order to have a box, I need a BofA account.
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Radio Hanukkah == Radio Not-Christmas
The other day I heard an ad (yes, an ad) on XM for Radio Hanukkah. Cool, I thought, and tried to tune it in. After a few false starts (I kept getting a message that I wasn't authorized to play the stream and then online streaming stopped completely), I was able to tune it in. We started listening to it while lighting the candles and thought it was cool to have Hanukkah tunes, but unfortunately there isn't enough Hanukkah music to fill a full station. XM Radio has decided to play all music that is Jewish, like "Going to Israel", "Eliyahu Hanavi", etc.
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Confusing user interface
I've always been puzzled by dialogs that have OK, Cancel, and Apply buttons. This has been pretty typical on Windows and relatively uncommon in decent Mac applications. If a preferences window has these 3 buttons, what do they mean? If I click some buttons, hit Apply, and then Cancel, do the changes take effect? If I click some settings, and click OK, but don't click Apply, do the changes get applied?