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Your pocket change: save it or spend it?

I save my pocket change. I have a old tub that originally held Gobstoppers about 15 years ago that I use to hold that change. When it's full, I cash it in at the bank.

I ask the question because every day at work I see people that insist of getting rid of the change in their pockets. They'll pay $5+ in change, just to get rid of it. This philosophy makes absolutely no sense to me. Why not keep it in a closet somewhere until you cash it in? It's a free, mini-savings plan!

Okay, I actually saw the movie over a week ago, but am just now getting around to writing up a quick review.

WARNING! THERE ARE POTENTIAL SPOILERS AHEAD! If you have not yet seen the movie, DO NOT READ ANY FURTHER!

To this article on CNN.com, I say: "AMEN!"

I have noticed for quite some time that people are becoming ruder and more self-absorbed all the time. Most of this is due to my day-job and the experiences I have with customers (which, admittedly may skew my perceptions slightly), but it's nice to see I'm not the only one noticing the trend.

The CNN article covers many different examples of rudeness in America and even goes so far as to somewhat blame the 60's/70's generation. I'm not sure I would go that far, but you do look and see the state of parenting and wonder just how big a factor that is. It is a factor--no doubt about that. The breakup of the nuclear family really weighs heavily on how children form their attitudes about life.

Mike Zornek asked a deep question last month: Are this country's best days behind it? Although I don't think he was specifically talking about this, I'm going to weigh in and say that our society is in serious trouble and a lot of is is because of the "Me Generation". We have become so self-absorbed that we are losing sight of some of the important things in life. Common courtesy is one of those things.

I personally believe that the biggest problem contributing to this rudeness surge is the fact that we now live in a 24-hour society. Things never stop. Businesses like Wal-Mart are open 24-hours a day. So many companies run third-shifts in an effort to stay ahead. The Internet is never off. We've come to expect instant gratification at any time. Because of this, we have to continue to go through our days (nights?) faster and faster. We no longer have time to be polite. I even find myself falling prey to this from time to time.

Perhaps if we slowed down a little, things would get better. Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying that America is spiraling down into self-destruction. But, we do need to reevaluate some priorities. If the country is going to maintain its greatness, society needs to remember that it's the people that count. Rudeness doesn't help that. Common courtesy would.

I've posted Print Window 3.1.4. The new version makes the following changes:

• Fixed an issue that occurred under Mac OS X 10.4 and higher where Print Window would ignore disks and volumes that were dropped on its icon.
• Fixed an issue that could cause Print Window to ignore the "Quit when Printing is Complete" setting under certain circumstances.
• Fixed an issue that could cause the "Print File Listing..." service to fail under certain circumstances.

It's a minor update, true, but one that fixes a few niggling issues that have been hanging around for a while.

Meanwhile, work continues apace on the next major version of Print Window.