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How to reset an iPod
I know Apple gets high marks for style and ergonomics in some quarters, but today I had a Nano freeze on me and I had no bloomin’ idea how to turn it off and on again. Where the hell is the reset...
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Even Microsoft looses it sometimes
Microsoft programmers are responsible for all sorts of incomprehensible, unhelpful error and warning messages. But at least they usually get their spelling and grammar right. Look what I saw today:...
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I’d like to meet the guy who wrote this spam
My spam filtering service is very good, but I still get one or two spams a day. These generally end up in my Junk E-mail box in Outlook. Normally I pay no attention, but this one was so outlandish it...
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Finally, something useful on the Internet
The world can’t be a bad place if I can make myself look like this: Now you try!
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Pardon me, do you speak HelpDesk?
WebHost4Life’s SharePoint hosting architecture seems to mirror that of Mail2Web. Both of these companies allow me to create a SharePoint site in a subdomain of a domain hosted elsewhere, unlike...
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Name that syntax!
This quiz is for the linguists among you. Can you guess the original language of the following product description? See comments for answer (sort of). What offers the Public SyncTool? Escalation...
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A good laugh from The Onion
The accidental severing of three undersea cables has led to a massive Internet slowdown in India. What do you think? More answers at http://www.theonion.com/content/node/73678.
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I do like coders with a sense of humor
I had to create a support ticket at Dreamhost. I like their style. Here are a couple of the questions they ask, along with the options available in the pop-down menu: I’m not sure how well these...
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I’ll give him a C for Chutzpah
All bloggers know that comment spam is an incredible time waster. It used to be that my comment spam involved only tried to promote pornographic and pharmaceutical web sites, and did so in a very...
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Thought for the day
Working with computers is easy. Working with people working with computers is hard.
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