Take the nearest thing that writes (pen, pencil, feltliner, ...) and grab the closest sheet to write on (printed mail, listing, book, earlier note, notebook, agenda, ...) that still has enough room to take the note and hope the note won't get lost in the rumble on the desk.
Snippets of code should be wrapped in
<code> tags not<pre> tags. In fact, <pre>
tags should generally be avoided. If they must
be used, extreme care should be
taken to ensure that their contents do not
have long lines (<70 chars), in order to prevent
horizontal scrolling (and possible janitor
intervention).