Most of my work day is spent trying to avoid work. During one of my anti-work adventures, I stumbled across a necessary task that many of us often avoid more than we avoid work. Yet it’s avoided because few people remember to do it: Cleaning up your e-mail address book.
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There is no reason that computers take so long to start. In fact, the only reason it takes up to a minute (or longer) to start Windows Vista is because having a faster boot time is not a priority for Microsoft. It should be, as the ASRock Instant Boot program proves.
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While the spam I receive in my e-mail inbox is down from the flood levels of years past, there are still a few web sites I specifically block in my e-mail program. One of the big ones is Classmates.com. Apparently I’m not alone.
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Offers for sexual potency pharmaceuticals, wire transfer scams, porn, the glut of spams and scams that once flooded your e-mail inbox was cut by 70 percent recently when one (yes, only one) ISP was shut down.
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The Windows Vista Sidebar isn’t the wonder that Mac OS X Dashboard has been, but it can still be useful.
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Microsoft has a reputation for playing catch-up with Apple. One clear-cut example is the Windows Vista Sidebar, which is a pale imitation of the OS X Dashboard. Even so, both programs borrow a lot from what came before.
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I love the Lost in Space robot.
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Time to relax. Time to get back to life. The blasted U.S. Presidential campaign is past (though as I write this it’s not over). Two years after it began, I hope that every loudmouth partisan jerk on the Internet is finally ready to put it to a rest. Should I get my hopes up?
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Yes, I both write and read computer books. In fact, I have quite a computer book library. A good title on my shelves is relished. Not every book is perfect, though. I’ve paid good money for books and been truly disappointed — and use that experience as motivation to write my own books better. Recently, I bought one of the Adobe Classroom in a Book titles. Man, what a let-down!
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Who was the fool who decided that e-mail would be best sent using fancy “stationery”? I’m talking fonts, colored backgrounds, winky-bouncy-bubble heads — all that junk. While it may thrill you, it’s annoying readers like Bea, who finds the text sent to her in e-mail messages too tiny to print.
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