It began, as many gripping tales do, with a simple, nerdy Wordle musing and ended with a revealing peek behind the curtain of today’s artificial intelligence. What five-letter word, our intrepid blogger wondered, both begins and ends with the letter “i”? In the age of omniscient algorithms and...
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Microsoft posted a Fixit for last week's Patch Tuesday updates for Office 2013 & 365. Here's a link to the article PC World posted about it. http://www.pcworld.com/article/2363784/patch-tuesday-disaster-breaks-office-2013-for-thousands-heres-how-to-fix-it.html Here's the Fixit link. Link Removed...
So consider this to be a bit of self indulgence as I give my own eulogy at windows XP's funeral.
Windows XP was my first full time operating system, and as it ends its support cycle its time for me to do some fun looking back on one of the computing worlds biggest successes and how it all went...
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I’ve made a lot of computer blunders over the years. The biggest was taking a perfectly well- functioning Sony (6758) Vaio and upgrading it from Windows XP to Windows Vista, which left it so crash-prone as to be all but useless.
Source: Yahoo! News
A plucky candidate listed the Almighty as a referee on his CV, which joins a long list of silly things employers have read on job applications recently, according to a survey by careerbuilder.co.uk. Read on to find out just how silly.
The careers website questioned 700 companies, who...
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What Not to Say About Someone's Appearance
Don’t say: “You look tired.”
Why: It implies she doesn’t look good.
Instead say: “Is everything OK?” We often blurt the “tired” comment when we get the sense that the other person feels out...
Looks like the susposedly superior Mac has a bit of a problem Updated: Major bug in Snow Leopard deletes all user data Seems like MS isn't the only one to make blunders.
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