Whether you’re ready or not, Windows 10 will be coming to a PC near you (Apple and Linux users excepted of course.) Microsoft is going out of its way to get existing Windows 7...
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Month: October 2015
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Well maybe I can’t program a PVR but I do know how to fix most computer problems. Here are a couple I dealt with the past couple of days, courtesy of my coffee group...
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This was the first birthday party for Maria I attended. She looks happy. (It was actually for her and a couple of other folks in the picture.) It was a while ago, so I...
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Back in the last century if you wanted a personal “online presence” it wasn’t as easy as setting up a Twitter or Facebook account. In those days most geeky types had their own...
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Given that I have close to half a century’s experience in programming, configuring, upgrading, repairing and building computers, plus plenty of time spent setting up printers, scanners, tablets, networks, DVD players and VCRs (!)...
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That’s what the older kids call her. Sometimes her mother does too. I have threatened on occasion to call her “Susie-Q” – but that is a non-starter. So let’s just call her Susannah. Here...
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Here is a photograph taken in Tallinn in June 2006 – the occasion of our first cruise with Celebrity – first cruise ever, for that matter. And here is one from April 2015 on...
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I read a Sales / Marketing blog the other day that outlined the 4 reasons for customer resistance to a sales pitch. This only affects me as a consumer these days of course...
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Back in prehistoric times when I studied elementary classical physics, things were pretty simple. And linear. And smooth. And predictable. We learned about displacement, velocity and acceleration and that was that. Forces and acceleration...
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Jimmy Carter was in the White House. Trudeau and Levesque were in passionate debate about the future of Quebec and Canada. The Berlin Wall and the Iron Curtain were firmly in place. Microcomputers were...