Monthly Archives: September 2007

Many hands make light work

Writing this weekly column is rewarding but very time-consuming due to the fact that I invariably get side-tracked into things that I didn’t expect and, quite frankly, haven’t really got the time for. I recently read an article in an … Continue reading

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Striving for archiving

Several weeks ago I wrote of a reader who was unable to retrieve important documents off of a 5,25-inch floppy disk. A number of other readers contacted me to say that they still had computers with 5,25 floppy drives and … Continue reading

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Having a blue (and Orange) Monday

It does me no good at all to dwell on the difference between the South African Internet experience and that of people in other countries. In the normal course of events I shut my mind and try to get on … Continue reading

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Unlimited storage with Yahoo Mail

It’s about a year, almost to the day, that I started to do the vast bulk of my e-mailing using a web-based facility. I felt at the time that it would probably be safer not to receive e-mail on my … Continue reading

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