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Printing Address Labels Now IMPOSSIBLE or is it
Spreadsheet
For many years I have kept a spreadsheet with all the addresses for my Christmas Card list and faithfully updated it as people have got married, moved house or died. Each year I used that list to print out roughly 80 address labels for the env
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Have You Noticed Ever Decreasing Website Ranks?
Most curious, indeed! Website rankings. They seem illogical, to say the least.
I've been taking note of various web site rankings. And they just don't make ordinary sense.
If you receive more visitations to your site -- if more people are reading your ma
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Power Corrupts, So Does Technology
You've heard the old adage: power corrupts - absolute power corrupts absolutely. And you'll have to admit, there is truth in this statement. But the principal applies to more than just political power.TechnologyTechnology corrupts in that it is no respecte
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Have You Noticed Ever Decreasing Website Ranks?
Most curious, indeed! Website rankings. They seem illogical, to say the least.
I've been taking note of various web site rankings. And they just don't make ordinary sense.
If you receive more visitations to your site -- if more people are reading your ma
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Printing Address Labels Now IMPOSSIBLE or is it
Spreadsheet
For many years I have kept a spreadsheet with all the addresses for my Christmas Card list and faithfully updated it as people have got married, moved house or died. Each year I used that list to print out roughly 80 address labels for the env
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Power Corrupts, So Does Technology
You've heard the old adage: power corrupts - absolute power corrupts absolutely. And you'll have to admit, there is truth in this statement. But the principal applies to more than just political power.TechnologyTechnology corrupts in that it is no respecte
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Hacked Off
There was an extremely annoying hack of IT sites this week. As far as I can make out, one of the plugins that is used for Word Press sites was maliciously altered, so that everyone who had it installed got unwanted attacks on their websites.
Plugins
A pl
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The Scene of This World Is Changing - Universities
Maybe I'm just old. I don't know.
Elementary education changes over time have been a source of grumbling. And from my perspective, rightly so. The schools seem to have lost focus on what is truly important. Standardized tests frighten school systems.
But
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Inventors Seldom See the Big Picture
I read what should have been a light, interesting if relatively unimportant, article on the invention of the push lawn mower. Fellow writer Anthony Davis provided this link:
Who Made That Lawn Mower?
The article triggered a chain of thoughts in my mind.
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Nostalgia? Do You Remember: When LINKS were Always Blue?
When I first heard anything much about computers that was of any real interest to me, it had to do with computer games.
There was this game called ZORK. It was a simple text game. If you're old as the hills, you may have heard of it. I played it and was f
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Spamming the First Initial of Your Name
Well, perhaps you are one of those who use as your email address your first initial and last name. Let's make up one. Say your name is Hermione Svelt. So you go by
HSvelt@howdydoodymail.com
Now spammers are not partial. They spam everyone they can reach.
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One Spam/Scam Email Introduction
One of the easiest forms of spam/scam to recognize is an email that begins...
"From the Desk of..."
Simply delete.
This form of English is employed by spammers from smaller English-speaking countries famous for their effort to ensnare those desirous of
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I Never Heard of This Browser - Have You UC Browser
I was checking Google Analytics concerning my website, Quirkyscience.com, when I spotted a load-speed feature. I clicked on that, and it listed various internet connection software browsers and such. One of them was called UC Browser. Why, I'd never even h
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