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Keyboards are forever

I don’t think voice recognition will ever catch on. It’s faster to type than it is to talk — in English. But what about other languages? Quote from an article on ABC News: Rashid said some things won’t change. He predicted computers will use traditional keyboards even 10 years in the future, despite enormous investments…Continue Reading…

Blogger Improvements

One nice feature of WordPress is that it lists Incoming Links in the Dashboard. From there I visited some of the sites linking to me. It’s very interesting to find that there are sites out there, that I’ve never seen myself, linking to my site. I love it – it really adds to the blogging…Continue Reading…

PSAT/NMSQT College Reporting (CPRS)

I was placed among the top 50,000 students of the 1.3 million who took the PSAT last October (I think). The National Merit Scholarship Corporation is offering a service they’re calling the “College Plans Reporting Service (CPRS).” It allows us to send information about ourselves to two colleges. Do you know anything about it? Some…Continue Reading…

WordPress Hosting

They’ve added a page listing web hosts for WordPress. Maybe I can get Sizzly Hosting to add a WordPress section and then they can get added to the page. WordPress Hosting

Automatic Reboots by Windows Update

Last night my computer was automatically restarted by Windows Update after installing an update that required a reboot. This seems rather risky to me, unless the security update was so urgent that a hacker could immediate compromise your system. To me, this seems like the only case in which Windows should automatically restart your computer….Continue Reading…

New Gmail Login Box

This used to be a post about a redesigned Gmail login box. The post is no longer relevant, and has been removed.