What noise does a hard drive make just before it dies? Well, it goes something like this: Tica-tica-tica-tica-zing! I’m serious.
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July 14, 2010Signs of Impending DoomJuly 12, 2010What If There Were No Internet?Well, yeah: If the Internet were gone, then you wouldn’t be reading this. Well, at least you wouldn’t be reading this on your computer screen. You might, in fact, be reading it in one of those magazines you no longer subscribe to.
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July 9, 2010The World Wide WaitIt’s a joke from the early 1990s: The third W in WWW stood for wait. It’s coming back to haunt me.
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July 7, 2010Your Typing Skills Are Being Swyped
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July 5, 2010Many MarriagesOnce upon a time there were two. Now there’s four. Soon I predict that there will be two again.
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July 2, 2010Your Future Programming CareerThe computer industry isn’t dead, it’s just that the target machines are getting much smaller. June 30, 2010The Cover Page Has No Page Number, Part IIMaking a document in Word that features a cover page without a page number can be an exercise in frustration. If you followed along with Monday’s blog post, then you’re already halfway there. Time to finish the job.
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June 28, 2010The Cover Page Has No Page Number, Part IMicrosoft Word isn’t very forgiving when it comes to a common task: Create a document with a cover page where the cover page doesn’t have any headers or footers or page numbers, but the next page does. And further: The next page starts page numbering with page 1 instead of page 2. Yes, it can be done, but it’s not pretty.
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June 25, 2010How To Tell If You’re In a Video GameHere are a dozen things to note for those times when you seriously question reality and begin to wonder whether or not you’re playing a combat-type first person shooter video game. June 23, 2010Tags, Tags, Everywhere!One of the latest rages in our digital obsession over searching is the use of tags. Tags are text tidbits that help you find things — providing that you know how to put tags to work.
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