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Yet another reason to switch to Macintosh

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Via Outside the Beltway: Outside The Beltway : Microsoft to Force Feed XP2 April 12 Microsoft to Force Feed XP2 April 12 Posted by James Joyner at 09:37 Corporate customers who have delayed installing Microsoft XP Service Pack 2 will be assimilated on April 12. Resistance is futile. Beware unplanned SP2 downloads on April 12 … Continue reading Yet another reason to switch to Macintosh

CSV files

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I was going to write today, I swear I was. Then D. calls and says she needs help with mailing lists, and why don’t they work? etc. Importing and exporting (not necessarily in that order)… Figuring out the secrets of file formats. Yup, that’s me! Today’s file format lesson: If you use Microsoft Excel to … Continue reading CSV files

NaNoWriMo tool

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I have become a tad frustrated with Microsoft Word lately (“Only a tad?” I can hear you asking.) because its word-count feature seems to count a whole lot of things as words which aren’t words. For instance, the em-dash (or the — ) is counted as a whole word when it is surrounded by spaces, … Continue reading NaNoWriMo tool