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Category Archives: TECHNOLOGY

knowledge: qwerty

30-Sep-09

Did you know that the “QWERTY” keyboard standard was designed to: use the left hand way more than the right, favoring left-handers slow down typing by assigning important letters to pinkies and ring fingers, because typewriters jammed so much in the 19th century allow the word “typewriter” to be spelled by using only the top [...]

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Sleep Apneopoly?

03-Mar-09

I went to the doctor’s office the other day to see if I could get tested for sleep apnea. I’m almost certain I have it. It’s an annoying sleep disorder that makes me stop breathing in the middle of the night, then have a jolt as my body panics from lack of oxygen. It makes [...]

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inconvenient year-end technology failure

24-Dec-08

If you happen to be in the market for a netbook, and you are trying to decide between the Acer Aspire One and the MSI Wind… get the Wind. My friend Rachel got the Wind in September. I got the Acer in October. My Acer is now dead, or something like it. It won’t turn [...]

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Overboard?

19-Dec-08

This is the scene in my car lately. I’ve been working on a year-end best albums list, and the end of the year is coming fast. I still have a lot of albums to listen to. No time to waste uploading to my ipod. Is there a law against operating a laptop while driving?

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1 of 13181

02-Sep-08

it amuses me that my generation will be one of the last that remembers a time before we could have 13181 songs at our fingertips at all times.

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