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By Perry, 5 years and 7 months ago

Helping a friendI've spent a few minutes on the ph...

Helping a friend

I've spent a few minutes on the phone with my friend, Paul Moor from Berlin, this morning. He's evaluating NEO, Nelson Email Organizer, an alternate interface for Microsoft's Outlook. In the process of installing it, he also chose to install some other program that added additional toolbars that he found objectionable to his Browser and to Outlook. I helped him remove those from both applications.

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By Perry, 5 years and 7 months ago

You know you're getting old when ... Last night I ...

You know you're getting old when ...

Last night I received an email from my friend, David Steele, in which he questioned whether I had ever thought about writing a book that summarized the lessons I'd learned through the years in my profession. His suggestion was at once flattering and just a little bit sobering. It recalled an experience I had many years ago at the Decatur First Christian Church. Ralph Smith, the pastor, commented about a group to which I belonged that we were going to have to revise our opinion about ourselves as «radical young thinkers» because we were no longer young and quite frankly our thoughts weren't all that radical any more either.

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By Perry, 5 years and 7 months ago

PBASE Announces ChangesPBASE announced recently th...

PBASE Announces Changes

PBASE announced recently that it was changing from a totally free site to a fee based system. I am not surprised.

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By Perry, 5 years and 7 months ago

Online AssistanceWhen I first began using computer...

Online Assistance

When I first began using computers back in the 80's, the acronym RTFM was quite popular. And it remains so, because so many people would rather ask someone how to do something than to spend the energy to learn themselves. Since the advent of the Internet, the correllary to RTFM is STFW. It stands for «Search the Fucking Web.» Those same folks who won't read the manual are still around, and they are now too lazy to type a search term into the Google search engine and review the results to find the answers to their questions. They «don't have the time,» they tell you, to do that. They apparently think you have unlimited time to meet their needs in explaining what you have learned from doing the things they don't have the time to do.

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By Perry, 5 years and 7 months ago

A New BeginningJanuary 1, 2003. A new day. A new...

A New Beginning

January 1, 2003. A new day. A new year. A chance to start again.

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  • Cast in a new role:
    • David Steele: Perry: Last week when I was in Las Vegas I had the opportunity to see your house. It is gorgeous! I understand it is on the National Register of Historic Places and the fact you can walk to work each day to our business incubator on campus will be wonderful. I have absolutely fallen...
    • Jeff Nelson: Wow!!! I am tickled to death about this opportunity that has come your way at this time in your I really should be helping you with all of the particulars that go along with such a move, but find myself trying to keep up with the train of my life as it moves down...
    • Perry: Thank you, Tom. I'd welcome your visit if it works out.
    • Tom Wright: Perry: Didn't realize it was for 2 years--which doubles my chances I will get out there to see you. My friend Steve lives in Santa Fe and has extended an invite, so things are looking very New Mexico-ey for the future. Best of luck on this and everything.
    • Perry: Thank you, everyone, for your good wishes. In particular, to you Tish about the award you've given me, I can only quote Jack Benny who said, "I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either." ;-) Also thanks for pointing out the error you get when posting...
    • Tish: Perry, I'm getting a long list of code errors when commenting. You may want to check that out.
    • Tish: Congratulations, Perry! I hope everything goes well for you! :) Btw, I have presented you with a very well deserved award over on my blog. :)
  • Gutsy Gibbon Live CD boot problem:
    • Lee Collier: I know this is an old thread, came up in google as I'm searching for an answer to an Ubuntu boot problem. Just had to mention: Perry - the reason that Gutsy is detecting your sound card in VMware but not running natively is that, as far as I know, VMware presents a very...

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