My last system tray post (I hope)

Ok, I'm slightly embarrassed to admit that I find it difficult to remember what the date is. Time is somehow wired into my subconscious, so I usually know about what time of day it is, and I usually remember what day of the week it is, but remembering the date is hopeless. Besides, what are computers for if not to remind me of the things I'm too lazy to remember?

On OS X, it's fairly easy to get the menubar's clock to display the date as well. Maybe it's possible in Windows, I don't know. But I do know that if you mouse over the time in the system tray, Windows is supposed to tell you the date in one of Windows' highly obnoxious "tooltips". [An aside: the word "tooltip" is horrible. It feels like a word a programmer would invent just because he needed some word to describe 'a small box with supplementary information which appears upon hovering over an item without clicking' and "tooltip" was the first thing that came to mind. Seriously, why "tooltip"??]

Getting to the annoyance which caused this particular post: as you can see, the tooltip doesn't render on my system. More than half of it is stuck behind the system tray, making it basically illegible (it says Friday, July 13, 2007 if you're wondering). Gotta love it!