Archive for February 8th, 2004

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From PocketPCThoughts the full story can we read here

The new font Times New Roman 14, “takes up almost exactly the same area on the page as Courier New 12, while offering a crisper, cleaner, more modern look,” it said, adding that after February 1 “only Times New Roman 14 will be accepted.” There are only three exceptions to the draconian new typographical rules: telegrams, treaty materials prepared by the State Department’s legal affairs office and documents drawn up for the president’s signature, it said.

Well nice to know the US are concentrating on the important things in life huh ?

Some Facts about the Courier and Times New Roman..

Times Roman 14 uses much less paper and ink than Courier 12 (apparently!)

Both Times New New Roman and Courier cost $21 on average

Howard Kettler designed the Courier typeface for IBM in 1952

Times New Roman was developed in 1931 for The Times of London under the leadership of Monotype

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Well I have a tough week coming up.. which means I’ll probably be blogging less that I would have liked to have been…

Right now i should have been on a flight to paris for some training, but there are a few more important things to do back at the office..

If all goes according to plan, life should be returning to normal pretty soon!!

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Ok.. so not earthshattering, but I’ve added category I added category icons (like this one is ‘Rewarding’)

minor problem is that I havent implemented all icons yet and Internet Explorer doesnt see the .PNG transparency colours correctly on some of the icons…

oh well… fix that one later on!!

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