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    Simple Windows macro...??

    A group with which I work has instituted an organizational signature which fits directly below the signer's name when finishing a document. This incorporates a physical address (street number, city, state, zip.), phone and fax numbers, a website URL, and the signer's email address. When I write...
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    Home Humidifier...

    I have a free-standing humidifier for winter use, that holds about five gallons of water. On the really cold days/nights (ten degrees or below) I'll use about 2 1/2 gallons a day. During a winter like this one in Wisconsin, that adds up to a lot of water, particularly when you begin in...
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    3-D Printing

    Has anyone had exposure to the "additive" processes known as 3-D printing? It appears that these technologies will cause some real turnover in manufacturing industries. Trials have been run in which everything from handguns to missile components have been made. Some are going commercial while...
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    Refrigerator with water dispenser and ice maker in the door...

    Just bought an Amana double door fridge with the water and ice dispenser on the freezer door. Now the lady is asking if there is a way to fill it with her bottled water only, and avoid using our tap water. She'll do this even if it means she has to pour it in every day. I told her there's a...
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    "Undeliverable Message" that I didn't send...

    At least five times in the last ten years I've had episodes during which I received email responses from a server that my message couldn't be delivered for one reason or another (invalid address, recipient's ISP not responding, etc.) regarding messages I never sent - to recipients I never knew...
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    Google Chrome on Vista - Slow as molasses...

    Hey guys, I've been using Chrome on my old (Acer) Vista laptop for a long time now without problems. But in the last few days I've found that it's been slow to respond to my mouse. Scroll bar sometimes takes two left clicks to begin moving, pages seem to take longer to load - all in all, it's...
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    Leaking head gasket...

    ...On an '02 VW Jetta. Yep, grandson bought one with 95,000 miles and discovered a wee bit of anti-freeze leaking into the oil. See bubbles/foam on the dipstick. No way he can afford the repair, nor can I. (With a dozen grandchildren, it would be a bad habit for me to start!) My first...
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    Crosman P-10 CO2 pistol...

    Bought one to try to discourage the mourning doves from tossing the sunflowers out of the bird feeder. (Eat one, push two dozen onto the ground; repeat, ad infinitum) The thing shot fine for about the first fifteen BBs, then began to misfeed. Finally I estimate it took about 100 trigger pulls...
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    "Have a nice day"...

    This is what we get when leaving a convenience store, a boating supply store, a grocery store, etc. Got it this afternoon when leaving a Menards store with a gallon of satin white to be applied to the garage door and framing. Now I find this a bit innocuous, don't you? "Have a nice day" when...
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    MLB and PED's...

    It's going to be very interesting to watch what happens when MLB finally comes down on the guys they've I.D.'ed for PED's. Some will get 50 game suspensions; some, 100 games, the difference based (as I understand it) on the type and number of infractions. And then there will be legal...
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    Now how, exactly, does this help me?

    I'm wondering if anyone one on this blog can explain to me the value of the following statement: "To help protect your privacy, some content in this message has been blocked." Just how, exactly, does blocking part of the content of a message emailed to me protect my privacy? Seems to me that...
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    Two questions on lawn and garden care...

    Hi guys! I'm in need of an aggressive ground cover to place on the sides of a drainage ditch running in front of my place. I need something that will grow/spread quickly and will be high/thick enough to discourage grass and weeds. The grade slope is just too steep and the ditch too deep for me...
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    Vegetable garden...

    Well, despite the proximity of several grocery stores and a farmers' market, the lady wants to put in a vegetable garden. So I marked off a seventeen by thirteen area of the yard and roto-tilled it. Mixed in some dairy cow manure and it's ready to plant. My question, probably a non-starter, is...
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    Another Microsoft Win 8 quirk...

    I recently bought a new laptop with Win 8 loaded on it. After going through the prescribed fooling around to set it up for my uses (which DON'T include sharing photos, apps, videos, etc., and all the other new wave social stuff), I installed their Windows 365 Office program. Of course I hadn't...
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    Windows 8 tutorial?

    I just bought a new Lenovo laptop - 8GB Ram and 750GB HD - for what I think is really good price. ($479.00 - Office Depot) The only problem (so far) is that it's loaded with Windows 8 and I'm chasing my tail. I can learn it, but trial and error is time-consuming and wasteful. Yet that is what...
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    "Java Update" notices...

    The ever-increasing frequency of the "Update Java" notices has been getting on my nerves and been more and more disruptive over the last few months. Now today I have one that pops up when I log onto my brokerage account page and won't relinquish that page. Every time I reload all I get is a...
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    Any P.I.D. experts in the crowd?

    I know this is a long shot, but I'm looking for a good video which demonstrates a PID control system at work. I will be explaining the fundamentals of PID control to a group of people in a couple of weeks using a PowerPoint presentation. But I don't have access to a good demonstrator and am...
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    Beer Styles - Your favorites?

    I love beer. 37 years ago I left Chicago to work in the Miller brewery in Milwaukee, from which I retired about 22 years later. That's when I really began to learn about beer. The problem with picking a favorite is that it's somewhat like choosing a blond, redhead, or brunette as your favorite...
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    My theory regarding the NFL...

    If you gathered all the players on each NFL roster onto a scale and weighed them - the total weight of each roster, and compared the weights among the rosters, you'd find that they all contain roughly the same amount of meat and bone. If you searched out the origins of the individual players...
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    Christmas present for the lady...?

    Can't decide what to get her. I'm trying to choose among a DeWalt hammer-drill, an 8-horse air compressor, or an Ariens snow thrower. Last year I gave her a fifteen horse lawn tractor and the year before a box of Montecristo Vintage Churchills. What do you guys think?
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