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I said, 'stop following me'
Life, Wanda Sloan, Published on 28/02/2012
» There is this company in central Bangkok, one of the biggest employers in the country, and all it does is to assign young men and women to follow thousands of citizens and make detailed notes about them.
You deserve a break today
Life, Wanda Sloan, Published on 04/10/2011
» There are a number of excellent utilities around that force the user of a personal computer to stop working. And all I can say is _ use one.
How to hide yourself online and keep your surfing secure
Life, Wanda Sloan, Published on 13/09/2011
» I can't think why, but I get emails all the time wondering about the ways, if any, to get around the extremely necessary, very understandable hand of beneficent government which guides us only to the very best, most wholesome sites on the internet.
The format anyone can (and does) read
Life, Wanda Sloan, Published on 26/07/2011
» Among regular computer users, about the only thing more hated than the IT department is the Adobe PDF Reader. It's only fitting that the vast majority of the Reader installations are performed by the IT department.
Applications for all
Life, Wanda Sloan, Published on 19/07/2011
» There has been a shortage of good, new software in recent weeks, so here's something for everyone.
Don't post it, and they won't find it
Life, Wanda Sloan, Published on 19/07/2011
» There are going to be a lot of people in just a few years from now who will look back on their social-media fun and go, "OMG, what was I thinking?" Or, to be more exact, "Why wasn't I thinking?"
A good anti-virus scanner
Life, Wanda Sloan, Published on 26/04/2011
» Computer security is a difficult and finicky world, but Microsoft has succeeded in providing pretty decent protection for their Windows systems.
We get (a lot of) letters
Life, Wanda Sloan, Published on 01/03/2011
» The email servers have showed a lot of Life in the past couple of weeks.
Tuesday is the new Wednesday
Life, Wanda Sloan, Published on 01/02/2011
» The new face of technology coverage has piqued the interest of kind readers in the past couple of weeks. I want to get to a few of the many emailed letters, for two reasons.
Sticky notes on the screen
Database, Wanda Sloan, Published on 20/10/2010
» A couple of weeks back, I made passing reference to keeping reminders on digital "sticky notes", the way people do in the ungeek world. A few readers asked for recommendations.