on Life and Livingness - by Tom

There was a very handy button in Word 2003 that you could click to reduce the size of your document by one page. more

A new company hopes drivers will kick the oil habit by brewing ethanol at home that won’t spike food prices. more

Attackers are using fake MP3 files to launch one of the largest malware attacks in recent years, experts warned today. more

It has surfaced that the US State Department can’t account for up to about 1,000 laptops, perhaps as many as 400 of which belonged to the department’s Anti-Terrorism Assistance Program. more

Technicians at Purdue University wanted to assemble their own supercomputer, and they had some high expectations. Apparently, they could have set them even higher. more

What should you do when you get that vexing message that your computer’s virtual memory is low? more

The long-awaited and much-delayed update to Windows XP, Service Pack 3, is giving owners of machines with AMD hardware headaches aplenty it seems. more

A 90 second video here…

On the average Web page, users have time to read at most 28% of the words during an average visit; 20% is more likely. more

Microsoft Word 2007 includes a strange but handy feature called AutoSummarize. more

CodeGear, the development tools unit of Borland Software, has been acquired by Embarcadero Technologies. more

“We have gone from three meals a day to two. Then it will be one meal. Then we will die. Why is the world taking corn for fuel? It will mean the death of many people.” more

A link to a video presentation on our home planethere

Small and midsize businesses can follow these five steps to implement a cost effective business continuity plan. more

Canada is following the USA, and on April 8th 2008 proposed sweeping
changes to it’s Food and Drugs Act through introduction of a law
known as C-51. If this law is passed it will:

* Replace the word “drug” with “therapeutic product” throughout the
Act. This would enable regulation of sale of all herbs, vitamins and
supplements.

* Change the definition of “sell” to include anyone who gives
therapeutic products to someone else.

* Grant new powers to enforcement agents to protect the public from
dangerous unapproved “therapeutic agents.” These powers would
include:

- raiding homes and businesses without a warrant.
- seize bank accounts.
- levvy fines up to $5 million and jail terms up to 2 years …
potentially for merely selling a herb.

To learn more go to: www.stopc51.com

What would this law do to Freedom?

This sort of law is what we are fighting against.

Unicode has overtaken ASCII as the most popular character encoding scheme on the World Wide Web. Also vanquished at almost exactly the same time was the Western European encoding. more

The International Organization for Standardization’s OpenDocument Format standard is broken and needs to be mended, according to an expert who claimed to have carried out tests on the format. more

Are you worried that when you use a public terminal, a keylogger might snag your password info? Read today’s tip to learn what you can do to outwit this brand of spy software. more

Sales of standalone player not benefiting from HD DVD’s exit from the market, according to figures from NPD. more

Microsoft confirmed Wednesday that it delayed the rollout of Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) because changes to the operating system can corrupt data in the company’s retail point-of-sale and store management software. more