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Number   :  4438
Date     :  2003-04-24
Author   :  Bob Weir
Subject  :  Re: Date Macro
Size(KB) :  1


1) International things: -

> In a message dated 4/24/2003 1:02:58 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> tech@x... wrote:
>
>
> But, knowing how "conservative" Americans are, I'm not sure
> how many more centuries are needed for Americans to change
> --- The U.S. cannot even give up the inch-yard stuff even
> after most automakers converted to metric.

Don't be too hard on the USA. In the U.K. you now buy metric
lengths of imperial timber sizes such as 2½ m of 4"×2" timber
from the merchants! As things change, you can look forward to
150 × 150 mm bathroom tiles that won't quite mate with your old
6" × 6" and 220×110×75 mm bricks that don't bond with existing
9"×4½"×3" brick walls!

The 75 cl bottle for wines and spirits was quickly adopted in the
U.K., I suppose that had something to do with them being smaller
than the 1/6 (Imperial) Gallon (26 2/3 Fluid Ounce) bottles they
displaced!! The 70cl bottle is smaller than the 25 fluid ounce
U.S. bottle so you know what's coming next at the U.S. end.

2) e-mailing
For a recent holiday I wanted an easy way to send and receive my
e-mails using other peoples PC's with minimum impact on them. I
found a free e-mail client called popcorn from www.ultrafunk.com
which fitted (260k) on a diskette together with my own addition
of a sent file. It has an editable popcorn.ini file for personal
configuration settings, is text only and only downloads headers
until the message is chosen. You can delete (or not) from the
server without download (much safer than Outlook Express). A USB
"keyring" may be better for those with voluminous correspondence
and the know-how to incorporate, if needed, a specific dial-up
connection but 1.44MB did me for 10 days. It's small and basic
but simple to use, albeit different! I hope it's of interest.

Regards,

Bob



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