An Obstacle to Going Microsoft-free

I recently found a major obstacle to going Microsoft-free. I could switch to Linux, if I had the time to fool with it, at the moment, but it appears I am stuck with Microsoft Word, still. While I really like OpenOffice.org 2.0 (OOo), it doesn’t have native support for creating tables of authorities (a.k.a., tables […]

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Winter Exams Post-Mortem (Final)

Well, they weren’t bad, after all; in fact, they were better than my fall grades. I’m not ecstatic about either grade in absolute terms, but I am certainly thrilled with the fact that I was not at the bottom of the curve in Contracts. I also had the gratifying experience of hearing Professor Baird say,

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Windows XP Pro SP2 Hibernation Problems – Fixed?

I have mentioned before (here and here the problem of “too much” memory causing crashes and failed hibernation/standby attempts in Windows XP laptops. Microsoft has made a hotfix available, but it’s still in testing (until 2007, from the looks of it), so you have to call and ask for it (which is free). It seems

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Just what is KFC selling, anyway?

I got the following receipt at a KFC, this past weekend, when I put my meal on a debit card, being completely out of cash: (click to enlarge) For obvious reasons, I was a little horrified at first, but nothing actually went wrong, thankfully…

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