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Ms Office Wins A Battle Vs Openoffice Calc
This is completely counter-intuitive. The OpenOffice dialog for conditional formatting only lets you select from pre-defined “styles” by name (no autopreview) and no way to add a new style …
Keep Up With Basic Auto Maintenance
This compiles a few sets of auto maintenance tips that everyone should know about, not only for fuel economy, but to prolong the life of your vehicle. I actually look forward to when the car will be …
Finally An Explanation Of Why Catnet Craps Out
Ever since CAT.NET was released I have not been able to successfully use it for a typical solution/project. It actually causes Visual Studio to crash after running for a while and taking all of the …
Intolerable Beauty
This artist’s work is MASSIVE in size and in message. I find this to be a simple yet powerful way to spread a message. I have often wondered what it would look like to see all of the thrown-away …
"You know your security is broken when..."
“… a $250 device can clone RFID passports and Driver’s licenses at a distance” Researchers built a mobile device for $250 that can identify and clone RFID chips in US …
Mclaughlin Man Of Myths
I watch The McLaughlin Group religiously. I find the panel tends to lean right in general, but for the most part enjoy the varied opinions and the cross-section sampling of views from the right. But, …
How Reliable Is Dna Identification
https://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-dna20-2008jul20,0,1506170,full.story A discovery leads to questions about whether the odds of people sharing genetic profiles are sometimes higher than …
Do Market Analysts Really Know What The F They Are Talking About
After seeing these headlines in the news and RSS news feeds (many of the AP headlines _changed_ from one day to the next, but thanks to RSS readers every change was logged as a “new” entry …
Bluesoleil Bluetooth Driver Annoyances Solved-
One annoyance is that, by default, the Bluesoleil driver does not work as a Limited user account. Since I run exclusively as a limited user on windows XP, that was annoying. Fortunately, there is a …
Citibank Atm Insecurity
Ahh, doesn’t it save so much money to outsource? Ever wonder why it is cheaper (there _are_ reasons)? Well, in this case it seems that the company running ATMs at 7-11s that Citibank allowed to …