March 31, 2002

How’s That Again?

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According to an NPR obituary, retired CNN executive Ed Turner (no relation to Ted Turner) "tried to launch two unsuccessful cable news ...
March 19, 2002

World Premier

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My hymn “ O Lord the Invisible ” received its first public performance (as the sequence hymn ) at my church Sunday morning. After living wit...
March 16, 2002

Ins and Outs of Completing Forms

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A few days ago, I was formatting a form for presenters to provide information about their presentations at a workshop. It occurred to me tha...
March 4, 2002

On- and Off-line

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Some trips to the library are more helpful than are others. I wrote on 2/19/2002 about AOL’s use of “Online,” pronounced “on´-line” in its t...
March 1, 2002

Steel

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President Bush soon has to decide whether the U.S. will impose punitive tariffs on imported steel. The president of the United Steelworkers ...
February 22, 2002

Sarah Hughes

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Figure skater Sarah Hughes was at the center of an Olympic drama last night that people will be recounting for decades. Though she finished ...
February 19, 2002

On-line

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American Online has been heavily promoting its version 7.0 software on television lately. AOL hype is generally irritating, of course, but I...
February 14, 2002

Wire

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A few blocks from my house, the old Overbrook trolley line, which has been out of service for seven years, joins the Beechview light rail li...
February 10, 2002

Tech Support

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I never heard back from the tech support folks I thought might be able to help me with my PC problem. (Actually, I didn’t really think they ...

Windows Update

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In a paroxysm of administrative fervor yesterday, I increased the available space on one of my hard drives by creating Zip archives to repla...
February 9, 2002

Historicity

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Without being obsessive about it, I watched much of the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympics from Salt Lake City last night. Although I...

Out of This World

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I saw a piece on television the other day about how debilitating being in space can be. The lack of gravity causes muscles to atrophy, even ...

How Much Power Can It Take to Run a Map Light?

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I got into my car Thursday night to make the short drive to church for choir rehearsal. I immediately got a bad feeling when I saw that one ...

Web Log

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Although I spend much of my life in front of my computer and connected to the Internet, it took an article in Time to bring blogs (“Web logs...