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About 9 months ago I wrote a posting about Microsoft Online Crash Analysis. It linked to various resources that explain how the Microsoft Error Reporting works, and whether or not you should send off the error messages to Microsoft. My recommendation at the time was: So if you usually click “Don’t Sendâ€, I’d suggest you …
From TechRepublic: Sit up straight If you’re reading this article with hunched shoulders and a craned neck, your “computer slump” could one day give way to what some physical therapists call “postural syndrome.” Postural syndrome is essentially repetitive stress to the neck and thoracic spine, or the 12 vertebrae of the mid-back and chest area, …
From USA Today: It should come as no surprise that most Americans with Internet access at work do some personal Web surfing on the job. A new survey finds that half of them would rather give up their morning coffee than forgo that ability. Maps, news and weather are the chief non-work-related sites visited.
As you all know, Chris is the vice-president of the Niagara Falls Camera Club. They club recently held their awards banquet, and Chris came away with the McGarry Photo Award for slide of the year. A local newspaper covered the evening, and quote Chris: “While the debate about the artistic integrity of photographs taken using …
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From eWeek: While summer is almost upon us, there’s never a worry over good or bad weather when it comes to clients heading out for some Web surfing. And what better place than the office to check out some sites? But for IT managers acting as life guards on the corporate beach, enforcing network health …
From BusinessWeek: The campaign to crowd out predators from MySpace.com is gathering steam in Washington. House of Representatives lawmakers proposed a bill on May 9 that would block access to social networks and Internet chat rooms in most federally funded schools and libraries. Social networks such as MySpace (NWS) and Facebook let users to create …
This is from the latest TechRepublic Windows XP Tips newsletter: Need a change of scenery? No need to pay Microsoft when you want a new desktop theme–now you can escape to virtual versions of Egypt, Québec and New Zealand for free. Windows XP columnist Greg Shultz leads the tour. I’m not really into themes, but …
From the Toronto Star: Patients surfing obsessively for answers can fall prey to `cyberchondria’ — health anxiety made worse by a deluge of information When 37-year-old Toronto comedian Gerry Dee had a series of headaches, he decided to consult his family doctor. Some blood tests were ordered, and Dee didn’t think much about it until …
From the New York Times: Back in the Stone Age of home networking, anyone who wanted to play on a computer not hooked directly into an Internet connection had to snake phone lines or Ethernet wires across floors and up staircases. People talked about a promising idea: using the electrical wiring already in the house …