I received an .odt file for posting on an organization’s Web site. OpenOffice’s word processor uses this file format. I didn’t want to download and install OpenOffice even though it cost nothing. And going back to the sender wasn’t a good idea because she would either not know how to convert it or she wasn’t [...]
Surviving many bad dates can make a single person cranky, but it’s worthwhile when finding the right person to marry. Next comes planning the wedding, which sometimes can feel like a disastrous date. And then the worst wedding nightmare of all — the wedding planner bowing out too close to the wedding, but not close [...]
An article from the latest email newsletter from Writer’s Digest shares a bad experience a writer ran into with blogging. The writer, I believe, didn’t do anything wrong. Successful blogging requires authenticity, but the writer got burned instead.
Sandra Scoppettone, the blogger mentioned in the article, regularly blogged about the writing life. Then trouble came with [...]
Discovered Wordie through Wall Street Journal. The site provides a playground for making lists of words. How do you have fun with word lists? Logophiles and other folks are having sharing words they love, hate, find fun to say - whatever else tickles their fancies. Every word comes with links to a diversity of dictionaries.
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I have this Maxtor External Shared Storage External Hard Drive. I’ve been through hard drive deaths and crashes where it meant rebuilding the computer. I thought I was prepared the last time when I had dual drives, but Murphy’s Law found a loophole. We couldn’t boot from the second drive, but thankfully my data was [...]
Lockergnome reported that the IE 7 Beta Preview has been released. Unsurprisingly, people are talking about it (a few slams, of course) in many places. Some people may have downloaded it and installed it, forgetting that newer versions of IE always take over past versions. Thanks to several excellent resources, it’s possible to uninstall IE [...]
Two of you might remember when I wrote about my search for a cordless mouse and keyboard replacement. Well, as happy as I was with the one I picked, the mouse was flaking out. Here are the two posts.
The Boostaroo Revolution from UpBeat Audio is a pocket-sized portable headphone amplifier and splitter that boosts sound. Before I plugged in to my iPod, I had the iPod volume at about 75%. With Revolution, the volume is at 30% leaving me with plenty of room to make it louder if needed. Also, due to the [...]
When I first met Sudoku last June, it was Writer-On-Line.com’s puzzle for the month. It took me time to figure out how the game worked. Since then, the puzzle has appeared in more and more places.
The Dallas Morning News publishes one every day (it’s rated one to five stars with one being easy and five is [...]
One thing I love about the Internet is I can find the answers to my problems without calling anyone, schlepping to a repair store, and buying replacements of things no longer made like remote controls and mini appetizer forks made in the ’60s that my mom said she wished she had bought more of them [...]
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