Archive for May, 2008
Friday, May 30th, 2008
another handy keyboard shortcut
Tip: See Dictionary Definitions in Real Time: I’ve just run across a useful little variant in how you can use Mac OS X’s built-in dictionary service to see definitions of words in your documents. You undoubtedly know that you can Control-click or right-click any word and choose Look Up in Dictionary to display a little [...]
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
Handy list of Apple keyboard shortcuts
The ultimate guide to Mac keyboard shortcuts
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Did I miss the news stories about this, or were there just not any?
Hero Stops Mass Shooting: From a Winnemucca, Nevada police statement: On Sunday May 25, 2008 at approximately 2:30 a.m. the Winnemucca Police Department was dispatched to the Players Bar and Grill …. There were approximately 300 patrons in and around the bar…. The officers on scene discovered three adult males who had died from obvious [...]
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Friday, May 23rd, 2008
Fix for QuickBooks Pro Payroll submissions under Parallels
[I know this post will interest almost no one who regularly reads my blog, but it may help someone out there experiencing a similar problem] One of my clients moved from PC to Mac back in December, and installed Parallels so that they could continue to use QuickBooks Pro 2005 to do process their payroll [...]
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
I really need an Economics category
Why prices rise (by Russell Roberts): Steve Mufson at the Washington Post is bewitched, bothered, and bewildered about why oil prices keep rising. The headline: Skyrocketing Oil Prices Stump Experts The article begins: Confused about oil prices? So are the experts. Executives from the giant oil companies say it’s partly the fault of “speculators” or [...]
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
Hurting the many to help the few, and inefficiently, to boot
Hanger stakes: NPR delivers a scoop from the world of dry cleaning: If you think your dry cleaning bills are high now, hang on. Wire hangers are getting more expensive due to import tariffs on cheaper hangers from China. So dry cleaning operators are asking customers to return their hangers to help keep costs down. [...]
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
How to get best performance from your dishwasher
Greg Phillips, Sears technician, came over to address the problems we were having with our new Kenmore deep tub dishwasher. We got it to replace a 10+ year old machine that was loud as all get-out. The Kenmore 13842 came very-highly rated, but we were getting lousy results: dingy glasses, streaks on everything. Greg says [...]
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Saturday, May 10th, 2008
This one made me laugh
Story here.
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Friday, May 9th, 2008
I hate spoofer spammers!
Several times over the last few weeks, I have received hundreds of “Undeliverable Mail” notices from all over the world. Some spammers are forging the headers of their emails to put my address in the from line, a process known as spoofing. What bugs me almost as much, though, is the fact that all these [...]
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Friday, May 9th, 2008
Lone Star Lyric review
Glorious Return for Lone Star Lyric by David Dow Bentely III, The People’s Critic If operetta (as diva Beverly Sills famously observed) is “pure whipped cream,” then Houston’s annual Lone Star Lyric Theatre Festival must surely be the cherry on top. [...] Bouncing between New York and Houston, [LSL founder Kelli Estes'] youthful sparkle and [...]
