technology: usage and abusage. By WSJ columnist Jeremy Wagstaff
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After a backlash, it dropped the Safari from the "Updates" section to a "New Software" section, but still prechecked it: In other words, run the updater and not concentrate, and you'll find yourself downloading 22 MB of browser you didn't ask for, and didn't have before.
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On top of the inconvenience and sleaze of all this, I was irritated to find that the Updater doesn't actually work: Not only that, but the help pages don't help, and there's no direct link to the original files so you can download them separately.
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I'm not crazy about the betting stuff, coming from puritanical stock, and I'm not quite sure how the paper is making money from all this, but I do like the "article history" feature. But it's helpful to the reader to know when the piece was last touched.
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A wonderful post by an old friend and former colleague, Martin Latham, on why the book will outlast the e-reader: Printed books are palimpsests of our lives. Every reader has a few books which they love because they represent a transformation time in their lives."
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It struck me, as I lay on a chaise longue at the Conrad Bali trying to filter out the drone of the jetskis, that hotels are selling a complicated product. Like, in the case of the Conrad Bali, jetskis swarming the beach in front of the hotel like Sioux arond a wagon train.
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Read What Price Tranquility? (Links)
The SANS Storm Center said three days ago that We've gotten a few reports that some CEOs have received what purports to be a federal subpoena via e-mail ordering their testimony in a case. It then asks them to click a link and download the case history and associated information.
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Well, not dead, exactly, but I noticed that, at nearly 10 pm, none of my friends have done anything today to merit appearing on the News Feed of stuff (see above). If my friends have tired of Facebook as a place to hang out and do stuff, then how long has it got left?
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But how do you filter out stuff like my ditzy friend SMS-ing me at 1 am to tell me that after all she's not going to drop something off? One is not to give out your phone number. I keep a second prepaid phone around and I give that number, and that number only, to people I do business with.
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Read Filtering Communications So They Don't Drive Us Mad (Links)
But then he goes on to talk about the "new wave of adopters coming in". If someone follows you, it kind of behoves you to check out their tweets, if not to actually follow them, then at least to get a sense about whether the person following you is the sort of person you want to have following you.
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Read The Revolution That Keeps, Well, Revolving (Links)
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