This is the weblog of Brian Curd. A lot of it is written on the spur of the moment and any benefit you gain from it is worth exactly what you paid!
I came a cross this despairing note on a genealogy newsgroup earlier today: 1852 NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS SOLVE GENEALOGICAL MYSTERIES It is New Year’s Eve 1852 and Henry HYDENWELL sits at his desk by candlelight. He dips his quill pen in ink and begins to write his New Year’s resolutions. 1. No man is truly [...]
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A few weeks ago I mentioned Adam Adamant to Sue, I think it was after it was remembered by some critic or other on TV. Anyhow, she noted my comments and bought me the complete set of programs on DVD for Christmas. Great, just slap in a disc and away we go… not so fast [...]
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I wonder if it’s just me, or perhaps it really is the season of goodwill. Either way, over the last few days or so, I have seen a marked reduction in the amount of email spam being received. Long may it last…..
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I received this email today: Recently you were asked to participate in a Customer Satisfaction Survey about your Dell Inspiron laptop.At the end of the survey, you were asked for a US address and zip code in order to enter a sweepstakes. The sweepstakes offer should not have been included in this survey; the research [...]
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Would you like to buy some software? If I offered you something that could help you write reports and letters, publish your own book and even produce a web site for you, I guess you’d be tempted. The software runs under Windows and Mac so you have no worries about sharing your files with others, [...]
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Spotted this very clever map of the internet on Slashdot today.
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I’ve been using Firefox as my default browser for quite a while now. In general I have been very pleased with it but there has always been one problem area – Acrobat documents. Whenever I browsed to an Acrobat page, all appeared OK as the document opened in Firefox but suddenly everything ran like treacle, [...]
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