Met someone today whose resume included the point that he has been a Colonel in the National Guard for twenty years. And yes he was from the land o cotton. Not, unfortunately Kentucky.

This strikes me as sad. As though he were striking a pose in his faded blue shirt with a limp, over laundered patch announcing “Security: Wal-Mart” —

Of course and odder story is that a professor at San Jose State still notes on his vitae that he served in a tank battalion circa ’75. Oh yes, the mighty tank wars of the seventies… that’s what contributed so much to his value as an economics professor in wanting.

AC has released a new book. All the k-street wranglers are thrilled.

on the listservers; the tech questions turn to proclamation

>> Yeah that is what I wanted, but since our Windows counterpart uses
>> a Combo Box for the same thing, we have to sue a Combo box also
>> (Mainly for Documentation and Training purposes). I have argued
>> about this, but it is not worth fighting them about as far as I am
>> concerned. I save the fights for what really matter.
>
> Hm… Well, it’s not unlikely that you could get what you’re
> looking for by implementing the “-comboBox:completedString:” and /
> or “-comboBox:indexOfItemWithStringValue:” data source methods.

Yeah I already tried these, and it does not work correctly, it puts
in the text anyway even if nothing matches.

>
> Windows is moronic in it’s use of controls that looks like combo-
> boxes where the functionality provided is actually a pop-up button.
> You can’t tell what type of control it is by looking at it. Only by
> attempting to enter some text, you’ll notice if it’s using combo
> box or pop-up button behaviour.

Yep, too bad that those morons in redmond allowed the idiots at intuit to
write quickbooks so that users could do accounting without asking apple for interface blessings.
A decade before these coders discovered the born again miracle that is OS X, the users of quick* were using completion combo boxes for quick, easy data entry.

OS X, the enhanced terminal from Cupertino