Pretty much everybody knows Microsoft Outlook. It’s in the news quite a bit, or at least was, for security issues, plus it’s packaged with all versions of the Office suite, and used in quite a few office places. It’s also not too uncommon to hear a coined name “Lookout” either. It’s a [...]

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Online gaming is great stuff, I dare say many millions of people would tend to agree, but has it gone too far?

At the beginning of June, a [Chinese gamer][1] was given a suspended death sentence after he murdered a fellow gamer (and friend) after his virtual sword was sold by his friend for a meer [...]

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It has come to my attention, well not recently really, that people are generally incredibly lazy. They don’t like doing things that will either:

Make life generally a little better for everybody Will involve a small amount of work

This little rant has been building up for a long while… today it popped.

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Bill brought to my attention a rather amusing site by Doug Savage called Savage Chickens, where browsing through the archives got to this one about Quitting Time, and I couldn’t agree more…

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I had a rant about this before, I’m trying to recover the DB and put it on here so it’s more complete, and not so empty, but here we go again.

I have to deal with software that I know nothing about, and have little use for. Our DB Admin uses it, and I occasionally [...]

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