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The Perils Of Heroic Health Care

July 29, 2010

Health care is great. Great health care is great. Some of it is.. not-so-great. I’m not talking about the type that is necessary, usual, or emergency. But do you really know when there is a difference? Are you getting the right information, at the right time, from the right people? Does it matter if you [...]

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Smell of Books

June 6, 2010

I met a lady today who thinks in 50 years nobody will remember what a book smells like. Hmmm.. I guess that would be unfortunate, if it happens.

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Help Systems Get.. Helpful

June 4, 2010

It was an strange experience, the first time I saw it. It actually kind of spooked me. I had been experimenting with a mailing list service provider called AWeber. I had a question about something or other, and decided to send an email to them via their web form. So I start typing my question [...]

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The One Thing I Never Expected to Find at IKEA

May 7, 2010

It’s pretty safe to say, if it doesn’t plug into a wall, IKEA has it. Yes, I know they do have some items which “plug into a wall”, but they mostly deal with stuff that does not require power. They specialize in things that you can sit on, and things to store your stuff in. [...]

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Hooking Up a Blog to Email

April 21, 2010

You’ve got some choices when it comes time to decide whether to hook your blog up to email in some way. You can do what most people seem to do, and slap a Feedburner Subscribe button on the blog, then let Google’s Feedburner send your new posts by email to your subscribers. It’s free, there’s [...]

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Defraggin’ Them Cookies

April 9, 2010

In all the years I’ve worked with computers, I’ve never seen defragging a hard drive solve a problem. Even so, it’s right up there with “clear your cookies” as the most commonly given useless advice in tech support. So, that’s what I think – when in doubt, look elsewhere to solve your computer’s problems.

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