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A study by S.G. Cowen & Co. says that Google users tend to be richer and have more Internet experience than users of the other search engines, including Yahoo!, AOL, and Microsoft’s search, according to an article on Infoworld.
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We got about 8 inches of snow last night! Some areas report 10 inches. The plows were out early last night and thankfully have already hit where I live. According to the Oakland County Road Commission:
We dodged the bullet by the story hitting just after the rush hour,” said Craig Bryson, spokesman [...]
It was the power supply all along! According to the power supply calculator, I should have at least a 400W power supply — more like 450W. My 300W power supply was severely under-powered for my system.
I went with an Antec SmartPower 2.0 SP500 500W power supply. It’s actually very nice. It’s [...]
The power went out for an hour or so. No big deal, right? Reset a few clocks… boot up the computers…
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boot up the computers…….
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boot? up?
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Or not. My main system doesn’t seem to respond at all. I can only [...]
As a follow-up to yesterday’s post, 43 Folders has some helpful tips on writing sensible e-mail messages. While you can’t really control incomming messages, you can control messages you send. Some tips include:
Understand why you’re writing
Don’t bury the lede (i.e. get to the point)
Write a great subject line
Fit the entire e-mail on one [...]
Mike Langberg of the San Jose Mercury News wrote an interesting article about how interruptions are taking over the workday. This couldn’t be more true! According to the article:
Interruptions at work waste 28 percent of the day and cost U.S. businesses a staggering $588 billion a year.
Besides meetings, it seems like 80 - [...]