Busy

Dean Shareski blogged a few weeks ago about being busy, and  Ryan Collins picked up on it.  Dean’s point is that eveyone’s busy all the time. It’s a badge of honor that we all wear from time to time. We must be pretty important if we have all of these things to do. Or, maybe, [...]

Posted on October 31st, 2006 by John Schinker
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The World is My Knowlegebase

I was reading usenet a while back, and came across a creative solution to an annoying problem. A person had posted some fairly technical, hard-to-find information that he had finally found after a fairly exhaustive search. The post looked something like this (though this is not the actual example): The extract potential of Belgian Biscuit [...]

Posted on October 30th, 2006 by John Schinker
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Clear Type

Dan showed me this. In Windows XP, right click on the desktop and choose properties. Select Appearance, and then Effects. In the second drop-down box, change the font smoothing method from “Standard” to “ClearType.” Then click OK a couple times to dismiss the windows and apply the changes. It took me a while to notice [...]

Posted on October 24th, 2006 by John Schinker
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It’s Not Just Me

It has been a rough start to the school year this year. It seems like just about every day, my to-do list is interrupted by the emergency du jour. They’re never little things. No one can send email. The web server just crashed. We can’t get to the Internet. We’ve been hacked. Who deleted all [...]

Posted on October 20th, 2006 by John Schinker
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