August 13, 2008

Spaced Out

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What is the nature of space? No, not outer space. I’m speaking of the spaces between words.
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August 11, 2008

An En and an Em

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A hyphen is a minus sign is a dash, but that’s not entirely true. There are different types of dashes available for your writing pleasure. Before the media releases a panicked news flash, know which is which and how to use them in Microsoft Word.
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August 8, 2008

I’m all A-Twitter.com

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Almost immediately after succumbing to the seductive personal networking web site Facebook, I joined another, similar social networking site, Twitter.
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August 6, 2008

Social Networking

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I’ve tried to resist for a long, long time. But I’ve failed.
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August 4, 2008

The Lying Meter

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battery meter
The search for truth in the universe will not be making a stop at your laptop’s battery meter.
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August 1, 2008

This Upgrade Sucked

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I have just successfully recovered from an upgrade of this blog software.
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July 30, 2008

Making Vista Faster, Part II

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The second thing you can do to improve the performance of Windows Vista is to take advantage of ReadyBoost.
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July 28, 2008

Making Vista Faster, Part I

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There are two tricks you can pull to make Windows Vista faster. No, not fast enough that you’ll no longer be angry with how long it takes Vista to do some things. But at least you can make Vista run faster than it’s running now.
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July 25, 2008

Save Your Old, Crappy Hard Drives!

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Before I shoot all my old hard drives, I should seriously look into the opportunity to resurrect them as external USB drives. I can do that for about $14 a pop.
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July 23, 2008

An Episode With Identity Theft

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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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