Tackling great problems was best summarised by the late Fritz Schumacher: “Perhaps we cannot raise the winds. But each of us can put up the sail, so that when the wind comes we can catch it.”
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The moral is to see a doctor when you have pain in the gut, not to consult a linguist.
Most Central Government departments still depend on Microsoft Office. How will they and we cope with new official open standards?
You would be forgiven for thinking that tomorrow was the first of March, not June. If you dare mention ‘global warming’ round here I think the local hoteliers would lynch you.
This the one book on American English that every English speaker – American, British, Australian, or wherever – should read.
I very seldom post links to news sites, especially those which are full of adverts. However this story […]
With Mac OS 8 and 9 back in 2001, we had to performance routine maintenance to keep the Desktop working. This is how we did it.
It took 22 years to turn the telegraph into a useful commercial system, 16 years to do the same with the telephone, only 8 years for the transistor, and 6 years for the mobile phone. How long before computers transform homeworking and healthcare?
Why not buck the system today? Try out a new application, and become the master of your tools instead of being a slave to them.
Computer geeks might enjoy works in progress, but consumers expect products to work.
The Eclectic Light Company 