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[26 Oct 2007 | No Comment | ]
People of the Book(mark)

You gotta read, mama always said. Reading is fun – and fundamental, teacher would ceaselessly intone. Do you want to be a dope all of your life, watching TV all day? Pick up a book – right now!
Ah, the voices of childhood. Of course, like any good son/student. I listened to the powers that be and read books. Lots of books. And what did I get for my trouble? Bifocals!
Don’t get me wrong – I’m not knocking reading. I’m too ugly to get on TV; the only way for …

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[12 Oct 2007 | No Comment | ]
Cutting Through the Bull

Admit it. When it comes to output – to getting the results out to the public, to putting words on paper – you don’t know what you’re doing. It’s all bull.
You try, but you just can’t make them understand. They never have the font you used, they don’t like Microsoft Word, they can’t handle your style and formatting. The client calls up the boss. the boss comes down on you – and what do you have for an answer? Yep – more bull.
Actually, there is a solution to your problem; …

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[5 Oct 2007 | No Comment | ]
Movie Magic

The holidays are over, school is back in full swing. And ,with winter on the way, with its demands for sweaters, winter coats and other coverups, we can finally let ourselves go and eat all the chocolate and cake we’ve been denying ourselves all summer. In other words, it’s time to relax and let the “real us” emerge from its summer shell. What a relief!
Bears have the right idea, hibernating all winter. We humans can’t sleep all winter long (I’m willing to give it a try, though). But we …

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[28 Sep 2007 | No Comment | ]
On the Map

If you’ve got a couple of days off for chol hamo’ed, someone in your clan may have broached the idea of taking a road trip to an outdoor site – a national park up north or an out of the way beach, say. Sounds like a good idea – and an opportunity to get one more tiyul in before the onset of winter.
But the idea of taking the family out for a long drive raises some provocative questions: how to keep the kids quiet, what face to make at the …

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[21 Sep 2007 | No Comment | ]
Computerly Amends

‘Tis the season to recount our failings and misdoings, to make amends for the things we are sorry we did, and to resolve to make it up to those we have wronged.
And so, in that spirit, we come before our computer and humbly apologize for all the abuse we have put it through in the past year. We blame it for slowness and sluggishness, but whose fault is it that our PCs aren’t performing up to par? Who is it that installs the spyware, adware and junk-ware that makes things …