h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I use ALT+nnn to get those characters:
é (ALT+130)
ç (ALT+135)
æ (ALT+145)
½ (ALT+171)

So describing them as (ALT+nnn) means they get described as such.

à bientôt,
zb

Alt+code is what I still use for some, but this handy-dandy International KB thingy is so kewl.  

Thanks for the info on the &code; thing.

Does anyone else think this is a long conversation?

No. You should have seen the one on Sex and Chocolate.

a very good mix, in my book. and i'm male. it's usually only females who combine sex and chocolate, but i'm all for it. for more sex-related shinannigans, go to the forum entitled sex. surprisingly. oh well, back to the grind stone.

p.s. isn't it funny how all the forum conversations in h2g2 strangely mutate into conversations on sex? just a thought

Mutate? Is that what they call it now?

Just trying to fathom where this came from - the link appears wrong. Anyway, let me see if my normal method for typing my middle name works here: André. OK. I'll see if that comes out. If so then I will feel justa soupçon smug, because I have a Mac, an übercomputer on which international characters are fully supported without typing ridiculous Alt+ codes like I have to on my NTS box. (That's NT Server, not Note To Self, although it does run Notes as well).

Does it put the little pictures on the keys, too?

so i believe. by the by, how do you get those little symbols of yellow winking faces by your messages?

http://www.h2g2.com/A115598

Type (no spaces):

: - ) to get
; - ) to get
8 - ) to get
: - ( to get
> < > to get

cheers!

Of course, it redraws the key caps as you press the modifier keys. Well, if you have KeyCaps open at the time it does on the screen, anyway. Sort of. A bit.

No, actually.

"All wiyht. Rho sritched mg kegtops awound?"

de nada!

As I understand it this is not quite how the Peter Principle works. What happens there is that anybody who is good at something gets promoted, until the point at which they are no longer compatent, at which point they stop.

The key thing in the Peter Principle is that the people *were* good at what they did, and were promoted for good reasons.

Of course, in most large corporations the "cesspool" principle kicks in at this point: the largest turds always rise to the top.

My recipe for organisational success is to give anyone a 3-6 month trial in a new job, and if they aren't fitted for it let them return to the old job but at the higher salary, and call them a "senior" whatever-it-was. Recognise when people are good, and don't force them to do something they are not good at in order to advance their career.

My second cunning plan is to shoot any manager who insists on being paid more than anybody who works under them. Managing, at least at a tactical level, is not a particularly scarce skill, whereas good programmers are few and far between. Especially in Redmond, WA.

Or the death penalty

LOL!

I started to get in on that one but decided against it. Everyone has their own opinions, thinks they're right, and are mostly beyond conversion until they're put -in- the situation where the other side suddenly starts making sense.

Hmm. It's also started to succumb to thread-drift, an effect which I am pleased to say I have helped along

And another thing...

If their brains were about 3ft. higher up they would exclude you from the Push process.