Today I thought I’d show you how to remove formatting marks from Outlook 2007 and 2003. You may never need to use this, but judging from the amount of people in my office who do, it may come in handy.
If you’ve ever thought to yourself, “Help! I have all sorts of funny symbols and backwards Ps in my e-mail,” you’re not alone. I can’t tell you how many times I get a question that sounds like that. When I get to the users’s computer, it usually looks like this:
Look familiar? So, how does one fix this problem? Read the rest of this entry →
If I was one to not read articles all the way through, it would appear that Pope Benedict was apologizing for all of the MobileMe issues. The article starts:
Apple this morning sent an e-mail apologizing to customers of its MobileMe service who experienced a tough few days. And to soothe ruffled feelings, Apple said it would extend their MobileMe subscription by a month.
Which seems normal, except for the fact that the accompanying picture was this:
According to the caption:
Photo: Pope Benedict XVI apologized for a speech about Islam. Credit: Pier Paolo Cito / Associated Press
Which, you know, makes total sense. Islam, MobileMe… that’s pretty much the same thing, right? And hey, as long as it’s a picture of someone apologizing, it fits the article, right? Schmucks.
So you can see the article before it eventually gets changed, check it out:
That there is some Grade A Choice 100% Pure fail.
These are my daily “Good to Know” links for 03/31/08 … please enjoy:
More parents using txt language to make their child's name gr8 | the Daily Mail
It might not be every parent's idea of a "gr8" way to name a baby.
But our growing habit of using text messages to communicate appears to be having an impact on what we call our children. Anne has been changed to An, Connor to Conna and Laura to Lora.
Boob Physics | Club Skill
They bounce, are semi-buoyant, and males seem to not be able to get enough of them. They are breasts. In an odd way, the physics of breasts have become a huge factor and trend in the world of gaming; it?s quite interesting how this whole trend started.
World's Hardest Easy Geometry Problem | ThinkZone
Using only elementary geometry, determine angle x. Provide a step-by-step proof. This is the hardest problem I have ever seen that is, in a sense, easy. It really can be done using only elementary geometry. This is not a trick question.
Newton Virus - Art virus for Mac | YouTube
Spice up your colleagues' day with our Newton Virus, the first virus to introduce gravity to your laptop, causing the desktop icons to fall down as if subject to the gravitational pull from the real world.
Life's little mysteries | the Daily Mail
Why do women wear high heels? Why are soft drinks in round containers while milk cartons are rectangular? And why did kamikaze pilots bother with helmets? Here, ROBERT H FRANK uses economics to explain these situations we encounter in everyday life.
Come back for more links tomorrow!!
