Dan’s Thoughts

Identify theft isn’t really a new thing. The hyperactive alarmists on the television like to tell you about identify theft as if it’s going to happen to you any time you even look at a computer. Not true.
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What’s ThinkCentre? it is nor RAM, nor disk,
Nor processor, nor any other part
Belonging to PC. O, be some other name!
What’s in a name? that which we call a Mac
By any other name would run as sweet;
So ThinkCentre would, were it not ThinkCentre call’d
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Have you ever been as bored as I’ve been? If so, then you too have probably visited one of the big computer shopping sites and configured one of their models with everything possible just to see how much it costs. I call it the Most Expensive Computer Playoffs.
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The very first computer I bought was a TRS-80 Model III. It cost me $1048, plus another $70 for the taper record. The tape recorder was the computer’s primary mass storage device. I kid you not.
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One of the major frustrations in Word is knowing how to edit a template file. Once created, you can use the template over and over. But to edit the template file, you have to follow some rather stupid and outrageous steps.
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As that lady with the hick accent on TV says, in February of 2009 all broadcast television signals in the United States will go to digital. Your old analog television will no longer receive any signals not being broadcast. You can get a coupon from Uncle Fed to get a converter thingy for your old sets. But the whole situation got me thinking about television.
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There is an article making the rounds on the blogs. It reports that over 12,000 computer laptops are lost by air travelers in the United States. Not total over time. Not annually. Not every month. But every week. Dang!
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Whew. We dodged one this time!
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It’s Independence Day here in the USA. Also known as the Fourth of July, it’s a day when Americans drive their Japanese cars powered with Arab gas to go celebrate the end of British tyranny with Chinese made explosives. Which makes me wonder, where was your computer made?
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It may shock you, but I do nothing out of the ordinary on my PC to hold back the spam tide. Nothing. Well, nothing outside of the normal features used by my e-mail program.
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