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An Introduction to Using Open Office, Part One

Perhaps you got tired of feeling like you are renting Microsoft Office rather than buying it. Maybe you were just too broke at the time you had to renew, to afford the next upgrade. Me, I was put off by the radical makeover between Word 2003 and Word 2007.

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Lego man in space moves the Web

Two teens from Toronto successfully launched a Lego figure into near space -- and launched a storm of interest on the Web. Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad, 17-year-old classmates at Agincourt Collegiate Institute, took four months, many Saturdays, and $400 to carry a Lego figuri …

Court "Allows Re-copyright" of Public Domain Works

CBS/AP)  WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court upheld a law Wednesday giving U.S. copyright protection to paintings by Pablo Picasso, films of Alfred Hitchcock, music from Igor Stravinsky and millions of other works by foreign artists that had been freely available

I need a Cupcake Tower for the Wedding. Any ideas?

I saw the cheap (not inexpensive, but definitely cheap) cardboard towers on line and I saw the expensive acrylic ones too.  Those just won't work for me - they're boring and don't fit with the Wine and Roses theme of the wedding we're planning for my son. I got an idea - use …

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Foto Friday: Trying out that new photo-fixing software

(Translations into Spanish and German below) I ran a picture last week where I tried my new PhotoScape software to see what it could do to save a very bad picture.

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PayPal Makes eBay Customer "Destroy $2,500 Violin" - Seller Left Empty Handed

CBS) - Here's a heartbreaking case of botched communication, thanks to an eBay customer and PayPal policy.    

What Rhymes With Baileys? A Newsvine Joint Songwriting Project

Back on the McSpocky's December Holidays Party thread, we collectively decided there were too many songs about tequila and hardly anything else for the other forms of um, libations. So like the wiseacre I am sometimes, I said well, it is kind of hard to write stuff that rhymes wi …

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Foto Friday: Saving a Bad Picture

  (translations into Spanish and German are below) Had a couple pictures of the famous Sundae Sculpture in Minneapolis.

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Beauty in Classic Car Design Poll

There is absolutely no doubt that North Americans LOVE cars.  Why do we choose the ones we do?  Perhaps it's for practicality, perhaps for prestige, perhaps for handling, perhaps for the aesthetic beauty of them.

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