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Category Archive: General

Hats off to email

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One of the great unsolved problems with email is how to support multiroling in addresses and mailboxes.

May 28, 2015 General, Macs, Technology

The Browsing of Others

We are only too painfully aware of the continuing drive to increase powers of surveillance in the name of the ‘war on terror’. Just don’t let the electorate know that precious little surveillance has anything to do with that.

May 27, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

With Complements

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It is evident that the rules of colour harmony vary widely and lack a solid basis. Opinions have changed often. (Rolf G Kuehni)

May 26, 2015 General, Macs, Painting, Technology

eMail without tears or fears

Six simple questions to make your messages more effective.

May 25, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Crash trash

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The computing sense of crash lacks onomatopœa, is gross hyperbole, and is far too widely encompassing to be meaningful.

May 24, 2015 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Making My PowerPoint

She was reduced to giving her half-hour talk whilst pointing at successive thumbnails in PowerPoint’s overview. Members of the audience tucked into flasks of coffee, or rose and strode out.

May 23, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

-14: Establishing a dial-up connection to your ISP (in 2001)

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Step-by-step instructions for setting up a dial-up Internet connection under Mac OS 8 or 9.

May 22, 2015 General, Macs, Technology

Thinking outside the books

It is hard to understand why traditional publishers are so recalcitrant in making electronic editions worth their comparatively high prices.

May 22, 2015 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

Book Review: Keeping an Eye Open, Julian Barnes

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An important collection of essays which are extremely well written, and well worth reading, and reading again.

May 21, 2015 General, Language, Painting

Missing the target: how fining banks does not come close

Do the huge fines for Big Bad Banks serve any useful purpose?

May 20, 2015 General, Life

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