Cole's Notes - The Sunday Journalist

Found this interesting toy for the quiet time between Christmas and New Years. It came from the Windows Secrets Newsletter WACKY WEB WEEK — playing for you the Internet's greatest bits Print your own 12-sided 2005 calendar For your end-of-year festivities, one Web site allows you to define your own 2005 calendar and print it out as a 3-dimensional, 12-sided object that will surely amaze your friends. The shape is known as a pentagon dodecahedron. You do have to cut and fold the thing. But Ole Arntzen's site could hardly make it any easier. You can select PostScript (for PostScript printers) or PDF (for any Windows printer, assuming you have the free Adobe Reader). The PDF format actually builds itself inside your browser window, after which you simply print as many copies as you like. Happy holidays! More info

Just back from Vacation and ploughing through the 215 e-mails recieved while I was gone. For some reason, a lot of the folks at Bell are appending their degrees to their e-mail signature eg. Mr Selfimportant, MBA - or Ms Brainy, B.comm. I've always thought that was tacky - and it reminded me of an old Mark Twain comment. "Knowledge is like a fine pocket watch - it should only be taken out when needed and not flashed around."