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Cautino: ham typist ahead

Not all typos are created equal

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Facebook, why do you mock me?

Everyone I’ve spoken to hates Facebook’s ‘frictionless sharing’ thing. You know, the thing that shows you every single article your friends are reading on supported sites. On the occasions when the story sounds interesting, you click the link and get asked to install a social reader, rather than just taken to the story. Install the [...]

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A lot of work for charidee

So Comic Relief raised £74 million, which is more than a quid from everyone in the UK. It’s also, as some miserable bugger’s already pointed out, about one per cent of the get out of jail free card we apparently gave Vodafone. There seemed to be loads of #rednoseday about this year. Doubtless Twitter played [...]

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I didn’t used to get worried about privacy on social media sites. I don’t tell them much about me, so they don’t have a lot to reveal/sell/give to third-party developers or whatever. But they’re getting weirder. I’ve never, for example, told Facebook where I live, although it obviously knew when I joined the city’s group. [...]

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ENJOY

Going to Starbucks. Or how having worked in marketing spoils everything.

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Word multi-task fail

Word is preparing to background print the document. Not.

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In other news…

…the first assignment of a crack police comedy squad ends in tragedy

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I’m aware I’ve posted a lot about Word lately, but since buying the new netbook I’ve been determined to knuckle under and really try to work with Microsoft’s software rather than just bleating about it. It’s been wild. I’ve discovered what many of you will know: Internet Explorer is beyond rescue, Windows 7 is fine [...]

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Google branches out

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Alright, BT, now I’m mad

One of the things about being a freelance technology journalist is that things like a telephone line and the internet are, you know, useful. Imagine my joy then, on discovering last night that my phone line was misbehaving. It has subsequently died. I can’t really begin to convey my contempt for BT just now, but [...]

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