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Some editors can even spell
Life, Wanda Sloan, Published on 03/07/2013
» One of our subeditors here at the centre of human Life came up with one complaint and one request that resulted in satisfaction all around. The complaint was that using a word processor like Microsoft Word just to write stories and notes was clumsy, and ultimately slowed her down. But she wasn't aware of a decent text editor that had a spellchecker.
Clocking share activity
Life, Wanda Sloan, Published on 12/09/2012
» There are two kinds of people in the world ... and the other kind simply can't do without stock-market reports.
Are you busy tonight?
Life, Wanda Sloan, Published on 06/12/2011
» I don't think science has got around to precise measurements in Thailand, but the worldwide trend is that there is more e-dating than face-dating, and more of it on mobile apps than on dating websites.
The clean-up controversy
Life, Wanda Sloan, Published on 11/10/2011
» So the music has ended, and there is actually competition for the apres-disco rice-soup slurping benches with the laptop plug-in ports that line Ratchada. And as our party of seven is getting the khao thom orders straightened out, here comes the first email of the day, apparently from someone at one of the benches, maybe across the 3:30am road.
Not the end, but a new beginning
Database, Wanda Sloan, Published on 05/01/2011
» The Bangkok Post has promised to reveal the sweet mystery of LIFE to the world next week. Part of life is death, and so Post Database must die so that LIFE can go on.
The leading cleaner gets better
Database, Wanda Sloan, Published on 17/11/2010
» You have to clean up your Windows PC. That's not a question, that's a statement. The way Microsoft works, they figure it's fine to leave cra... er, stuff lying around on your disk, accumulating like the trash bin in my editor's office. Except that eventually a cleaning person takes out my editor's trash, and you have no one to work on your personal computer but yourself.
Everyone take note...
Database, Wanda Sloan, Published on 06/10/2010
» Notes manager or information manager or personal data manager, call it what you may. Most computer users need one.
Looking for something?
Database, Wanda Sloan, Published on 29/09/2010
» You say you've misplaced that application for a raise that the boss promises is all you need to see more money in your pocket? It's on your computer and you just can't remember where?
Spies do it, so can you
Database, Wanda Sloan, Published on 21/07/2010
» When the FBI finally got tired of following around the Russian sleeper cell last month, it outed the agents in a formal court indictment with lots of juicy details.
If you can see it, you can save it
Database, Wanda Sloan, Published on 10/02/2010
» A constant and frankly nagging question in the mail received here at the incredibly garish yet somehow calming Database suites high above the mother of rivers is how to save videos.