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Five days since I posted, as I have been recovering from a cough/virus/whatever , and I was Mr. Mom all weekend long whilst my much better half spent the weekend with friends. I have this of interest… … from mathoov's Flickr stream. Thanks to Ariel
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Happy November. As I tweeted this week , daylight saving time ends this weekend in much of North America. And leave it to Dr. Nancy Snyderman to tell us that the time changes brought on by daylight saving time may not be good for your health .
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As I Twittered (tweeted? I'll get this right), sometimes you forget to do something: pick up milk on the way home, feed the cat or empty the dishwasher. On the whole, not so serious. And with a digital vide recorder or a Media Center PC, you
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Thanks to Bethany for her question sent via email … "I just installed the Live Toolbar beta and now I can't find Form Fill. Do you know where I can find it?" Well, short answer is you can't: the Form Fill and Windows Live Favorites add-ins
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I wanted to share a very frustrating story with you that happened to me last weekend, one that I shared with Dell's customer advocate folks. You may've read my post on the poor customer experience at my neighbouhood Best Buy (the good, the bad... you
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A repost from 2006: I just reread an editorial from John Dvorak that he was ticked off at the plastic packaging that encased most gadgets at retail these days. Timely, as I was about to open a package of PC memory with a pair of old scissors, a package
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Earlier this week I twittered that I was going to embark on a perilous effort to (gasp) install Windows Mobile 6.1 on to my AT&T Tilt , given that HTC finally released the update on their site( http://tinyurl.com/5uqey2 ). I was about right
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Be alert as you read your mail today: fake ecards with loaded exe's are once again making the rounds... Oooh, look at the mail that's piling up: "You've received a greeting ecard" How exciting. Not. Today, several mails on my email accounts at home reportedly
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A quick post to provide some pricing perspective on Windows vs. Mac PCs, as we look to the upcoming back to school sales. Last week, Joe Wilcox posted a piece on Microsoft Watch noting that the regarding pricing on Vista PCs "These Prices Are Insane!"...
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Here's a quote for the Quixote in you... (apologies for the edit: see the article for more) "Get big fast. [Damn] the cost. Be brave. Go over the cliff. [The competition] doesn't have the ____." This courtesy of mobile phone operator and a man with a
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A quick note to let you know that Knowledge Base article http://support.microsoft.com/kb/914387 " How to configure daylight saving time for Microsoft Windows operating systems " reflects the manual changes and additions DST and TZ. KB 914387 should contain
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Ok, so we're taking the family out for the day to Bainbridge Island. On our way to the terminal, we noticed that we encountered not just one or two signs that ensured we stayed on the right route to the terminal, we had more than eleven signs (we lost
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As I previously posted here -- with link to the lecture -- about Randy Pausch's piece in the usually less than cutting edge weekly Parade, The Lessons I'm Leaving Behind , adapted from his book The Last Lecture , written with Wall Street Journal reporter
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Today this question from Mary... "I am thinking about getting a new Windows [Mobile] phone and was wondering how to install ring tones? Can I use any files? I'm also looking at the new iPhone but I read that you have to purchase ring tones for the iPhone."
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From Seth's Blog: Learning from frustration "If you have to put me on hold, don't play bad 1980s music. Play me Bill Cosby or Steven Wright. Or why not give me a choice of 100 songs/audiobooks to choose from? " Here's the big lesson, I think: The person
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