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Imagine …
… opening tomorrow’s newspaper and reading this: “Citing all-too-frequent child abuse and neglect, Congress has proposed the Parenting Reform Act. Under the proposed law, all parents must swear that they have not ’caused unreasonable physical harm or danger’ to their children. To verify compliance, all parents will be required to submit their children to [...]

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Here’s an email I received this morning:
I need to open Visio .vsd files…. What program can I use?
KS

Um, how about Visio? 

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This is too cool for school: This Daily Cup Of Tech entry shows how you can have your lost USB drive ask for help.  Ingenious.

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Tom’s Hardware has good information on understanding hard drive performance.

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Tom’s Hardware has good information on understanding hard drive performance.

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As a procrastinator extraordinaire, I’ve left updating my Exchange servers to now–bad!  Oh well, they don’t pay me enough to be proactive.
There are many recipes about how to perform this update, some better than others.  Microsoft has really screwed the pooch on this one, especially with Windows 2000 and Exchange 2000.  I may have screwed [...]

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From a 1998 article in Fast Company, Nick Corcodilos outlines a few points about re-inventing the employment process.  Here are the headings of each section in that article, along with a few choice quotes:

Your resume is meaningless–a resume rarely gets you inside a company.  He says to “create a new area in your resume. … [...]

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Returned from a useful meeting of the Boise Area VMUG (VMWare Users Group) at Blue Cross of Idaho (BCI).  These guys at BCI have done such a great job of running the last two meetings I attended, I gotta say thanks for Shad at BCI.
If there’s one thing today’s meeting has taught me it’s that [...]

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There are times, thankfully few and far between (thanks, Cableone!) when my Internet connection goes poof!  At those times, I know I should be doing something constructive anyway, but I never am able to: I simply walk away to watch TV or something equally inane.
This post lists five things you can do when your net connection goes down:
1. Clean out [...]

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