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Fri Sep 27 15:18:08 EDT 2019

So what happens if Alexa/Siri (over)hears you plotting to assassinate the President?
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Thu Jul 12 00:12:36 EDT 2018

Dear MSWord:

A string of capital letters ending with a lower-case "s" probably should not be changed to all lower case after the initial capital. Particularly if the string of capitals is something you should have recognized, like "AA" as a battery cell size.

Maybe you're the one who's been encouraging people to use ( Read more... )

Fri Apr 20 2:46 EDT 2018

Why don't the IM apps have a toilet emoji?

When we have 7+-hour conference calls, people need potty breaks. A little toilet icon would say all that's needed. (They could add a red one for urgent ( Read more... )

Sat Apr 7 02:51:12 EDT 2018

MSWindows, if you're installing updates, just admit it.

How can it take 10+ minutes for a laptop to shut down if the only applications I was running were a browser with one tab and the VPN?

Oh, now, after 17 minutes, you say "Configuring Windows updates/Do not turn off your computer ( Read more... )

1/29/2018 6:08 PM

MSWord:

If, in the process of editing "January" to "February", I highlight "Jan" and type "Febr", it is not helpful for you to guess that since I have typed half of "February" I would like you to complete the word. The word is already complete; "uary" was already there from the initial "January".

[Ironic that the god Janus was ( Read more... )

11/16/2017 16:26

Spell correct - sometimes good, sometimes not. My thumb was too light and I typed"...but we were intoo many meetings."
"in too" and "into" both parse, but the latter was not my intent ( Read more... )

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Mon Jan 2 19:29:53 EST 2017

Well, I've given myself another long-overdue project to work on. Last month I set up a new spreadsheet for doing my timesheet. (We're back to the situation of logging in 2 separate systems, and one of them is both poorly designed and poorly implemented. One resolves to quarter-hours, and the other to tenths, so many ( Read more... )

Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2016 19:51:14 +0000

And you wonder why people hate Windows?Best 30 results for "copy file names  1 Copy and paste a file ( Read more... )