Dan's Thoughts

Making a page look just write, er, right [Let's say "correct" - Ed.] in Word can be frustrating. That’s because the Microsoft Word word processor has not one but two sets of margins. Only by knowing how to set both can you get the page to look just correct. I mean, just right.
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In all great competitions, including some riveting drama, there are three forces at work. This goes along with one of my grandmother’s favorite saying, “Things happen in threes.”
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Welcome to the era of the Human Flesh Search Engine. No, it’s not where you can look for a match after a bad burn, and it has nothing to do with pornography. It’s worse.
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Something’s wrong. The error message appears. Odds are good that you don’t read it, and instead just click whichever button you’re used to clicking. O how wrong that is!
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The scope of ancient and antqiue computers was broader than what I owned back in the early 1980s. If you want to relive the past, then you’ll have to explore options other than the Radio Shack and IBM computers I used.
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Want to relive digital life when a 180KB floppy disk was the most storage you’d ever need? Why, eBay stands ready and willing to sate your 1980 computer desires.
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A byte was once a straightforward thing. A KB was 1,024 bytes and the world continued to spin on its access. Not so anymore.
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The joke goes that 2 + 2 = 5 for sufficiently large values of 2. It’s not really a joke, though; you’re computer can prove it for you.
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Are most of the people who use Facebook really that gullible, or is it just my little clutch of Facebook friends?
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A lot of hay was made that Apple’s new iPad doesn’t support Adobe Flash in its web browser. Steve Jobs commented off-hand that the reason for the lack of support was all the bugs in Flash. I think he’s on to something.
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