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Dear FedEx
I wrote about picking out a keyboard-and-case combo for my iPad. FedEx has quite efficiently bolluxed delivery. I’ve just spent two days waiting for a 2 lb box — after receiving a door…
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Sometimes, it is the User’s Responsibility
I’m generally a user advocate, but there are limits to even my patience and understanding. For instance, users who knowingly use beta software pretty much are out on a limb. Users who use…
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Rant: Appropriate Instructional Technology
This is shaping up to be a solid, rather lengthy rant about the nature of instructional technology, though I will endeavor to avoid foaming at the mouth. Feel free to go elsewhere. I’ve…
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Argghhhhh Mac OS X: Virus-Free
The Chronicle of Higher Education has, once a week or so, a “Colloquy,” or live discussions about a set topic. Readers submit questions in advance, which are answered by an “expert.” This week…
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Flash Woes
Bear with me while I engage in a controlled rant. One of the more trying aspects of shopping this past holiday season was that, for one reason or another, I had to do…
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There’s Enough Idiocy in the World . . .
Without adding to it with statements like this, from Dave Weiner: I’m not pro-war, but all the estimates of what it would cost to win the war I’ve heard are missing one thing.…
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CD-Audio Boycott
The latest copy protection idiocy is a Celine Dion CD that not only won’t work in your CD-ROM drive, it can damage it. My spouse and I, both proud owners of iPods haven’t…