Or perhaps it wasn't. But it feels as if it could have been. After a surgical strike on IKEA early this morning I assembled my Besta as best as I could. (Oh God, the wit of it.) And then -- here's the breakthrough -- I ditched all the bits and pieces I didn't need for this particular configuration....

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A commenter wrote:

I’m interested in your choice of pronoun in the following: “Each website author or publisher has to find their own solution,” I prefer to bounce between “his” and “her,” but am always interested in hearing writers’ rationale for their choice. By the way, I see “their” more a...

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There's no greater validation, when one casts a frail little paper-boat of a blogpost onto the maelstrom of teh interwebs, than to have some stranger, or even friend, respond. ¹ Go to any reasonably popular website, however, and it rapidly becomes obvious that 90% of comments are crap. What to do?

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About this time last year, and the year before that and the year before that, a thought troubled me. Could this be the year I kiss Quicken goodbye?

Anyone who has used this venerable financial package -- especially on a Mac -- will surely sympathise. I'm not going to go into the myriad ways in whi...

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Funny, the way the brain latches on to coincidences. I'm having trouble reconciling two things I've seen today.

One is Philip K. Howard's TedTalk. He not only identifies what's wrong with the legal system (mostly, but not exclusively, in the US) but also how to fix it: bring back trust, and all...

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