IM Swarms

There’s some sort of mass psychology at work, here: I’ll be sitting at home, trying to read a couple more pages for school before crashing for the night, and it starts. I get an IM, and thirty seconds later, another, from a second person. Then, yet another person IMs me, seconds after that. It happens

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Doonesbury Gets it Wrong, Again

Today’s Doonesbury strip gets it wrong, as is pretty usual. The Georgia law does not require anything more of any one group than of another. It simply says that you must show some form of proof that you are who you say you are – that is, an ID card, like a driver’s license –

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Windows XP Pro SP2 Hibernation Problems (Update)

I’ve mentioned before the nasty problem of having “too much” memory, when running a Windows XP laptop. Well, I finally gave up and pulled 512 MB out of mine, at least for the moment. I had resolved to install Linux, but realized there are, indeed, a few programs I still care about but hadn’t found

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