I got a call from one of my clients yesterday. One of the employees had a “broken outlook.” I told them I’d be in today, so I go there around 5pm and he shows me his desktop. The standard toolbar isn’t docked and is covering another toolbar. I click it back [...]

I had a little interesting experience with HP’s tech support a few minutes ago. I wrote up an editorial on it on HWG and also posted the transcript with the support rep:
If you haven’t had a product, be it a printer, scanner, monitor, whatever not work right and you hope that visiting the company’s [...]

CLEVELAND - Wedgie, a teenager’s locker-room nightmare, has made it into the dictionary. Webster’s New World College Dictionary based in Cleveland said wedgie was among its new additions to its latest edition.
The new edition will carry this listing: wedgie: noun. a prank in which the victim’s undershorts are jerked upward so as to become wedged [...]

Some new research is showing that the number of things humans can hold in our heads while solving problems is fairly small, three or four things at the most. Chunking makes it possible to remember more complex tasks:

It’s difficult to measure the limits of processing capacity because most people automatically use [...]

Cashier: “That’ll be $30.45.”
*hands cashier two twenties*
Me: “Oh, hold on a sec, I’ve got the change.”
*hands cashier forty-five cents*
*cashier waits expectantly*
Me: “…yes?”
Cashier: “You owe me ten cents still.”
Me: “… that’s forty-five cents, right?”
Cashier: “Yeah, but it’s fifty-five cents.”
*cashier taps the sign which reads “Change: $9.55″*
Me: “… that’s the change. That’s not [...]

Indian movies…
Socha Na Tha: Watched it today and liked it.
Bride & Prejudice: Thought it was corney.
Veer Zara: Was a good movie.

I was browsing through Brad Wardell’s blog on joeuser.com when I saw a link to an article entitled “how to make windows look like mac.” I got to thinking again why people would disguise their OS to look like another OS on another platform. Why make your windows machine look like a mac? [...]

AOL has some new “Terms of Service” for those who use their AOL Instant Messaging servers:
Although you or the owner of the Content retain ownership of all right, title and interest in Content that you post to any AIM Product, AOL owns all right, title and interest in any compilation, collective work or other derivative [...]

dice.com’s ad:

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goto = dice.com();
} else {
suck.it.up;
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Teach yourself programming in ten years
Researchers (Hayes, Bloom) have shown it takes about ten years to develop expertise in any of a wide variety of areas, including chess playing, music composition, painting, piano playing, swimming, tennis, and research in neuropsychology and topology. There appear to be no real shortcuts: even Mozart, who was a musical [...]