Stark is the "highest ranking elected official that rejects God." Here's more on the story, from the Washington Post: Stark, whose district is in the San Francisco Bay-area town of Fremont, confirmed his belief in a statement to The Associated Press late Monday. He said he was "a Unitarian who does…
I’ve been in this position many times. I know important information is somewhere on my computer, or is it? And if it’s on my computer, is it in the form of a wordprocessing file or is it something I received or sent on an e-mail? What’s the best way to find it? Do I go to dozens of subdirectories, opening in reviewing hundreds of documents, or do I use the simplistic “Find” feature of Outlook, and watch the search results slowly trickle in?
I’ve read articles suggesting that many professionals spend more than five hours per week simply hunting down information that they know is on their own system. I am sure that I spent several hours per week looking for such information. To say that it can be irritating is truly an understatement.
This constant frustration recently led me to a pleasant discovery, but it wasn’t obvious at first. I started looking at various shareware packages that claimed that they could track down your files based upon Boolean searches. Many of them seemed promising, and I tried a few, but I really didn’t see anything that stood out, and I wasn’t inclined to try very many of these packages, since there is a learning curve associated with each of them. Another option was to purchase an expensive package, such as Isys. Then again, I really didn’t want to be spending several hundred dollars unless I had to.
I then discovered Windows Desktop Search, free to all who …
Recent comments in response to posts on Dangerous Intersection have led me to write this screed. Screed is to be the operative word for this, for it has been born out impatience and anger. The biggest danger we face in the long run is the basic ignorance people bring to…
This is mind-blowing. To think that I used to have some respect for John McCain. The question recently put to McCain, on his Straight-Talk Express campaign tour, was straight-forward. Here's the transcript of what unfolded: Q: “What about grants for sex education in the United States? Should they include instructions…
George Lakoff has once again weighed in on a critical issue of word meaning. This time, his focus is on what it means to be "responsible": Accountability is what is called a contested concept, that is, a concept with different meanings for different people, depending on their values. What we…