I speak as one whose first love was Blandings, and who later took immense pleasure from Psmith, but Jeeves is the jewel, and anyone who tries to tell you different can be shown the door, the mini-cab, the train station, and Terminal 4 at Heathrow with a clear conscience.
Dashboard widgets provide an easy way for people to access important information and perform simple tasks without disturbing their work on the desktop. The Dashboard application, available in OS X v10.4 and later, provides the environment widgets run in and allows users to manage their widgets. This article introduces the Dashboard environment and explains how to create a simple widget.
I was getting an error saving UTF-8 content scraped from the web (well, my blog) in to a MySQL database with Railo. I set the database charset to utf8mb4 which should mean it accepts Emoji, but it wouldn't take it. Using 'CharsetDecode' set to ASCII did do it. It probably stripped out the emoji, but for what I'm doing that's not a big problem.