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Malaprops (words easily confused #3)

More words easily confused: rein and reign. I see these confused so often that I've sometimes gotten confused about them...

Jed

November 2, 2002
Filed under: Language, Words Easily Confused
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Rochambeau

Office Depot or Office Max or one of those places has a billboard campaign where they show pictures of various...

Jed

November 2, 2002
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Toyota goes hybrid

I ought to be reading subs, or editing, or sleeping, or some combination of those. But instead I went looking...

Jed

November 1, 2002
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More on spam

Yet another response to that newsletter includes this presumably unintentionally funny bit: If you do not wish to shut down...

Jed

November 1, 2002
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Net-savvy quiz

You receive an obnoxious spam that was sent to a single address, newsletter@foo.com (not its real address). It's from newsletter-admin@foo.com....

Jed

November 1, 2002
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Salsa sauce

We have new vending machines at work that feature various frozen meals. One of them says on the box: "chicken...

Jed

November 1, 2002
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PSA: No backups at Pair

Anyone who has an account hosted at Pair.com, be warned: they do make backups, but they won't restore your data...

Jed

October 31, 2002
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Not my day

So we had our weekly SH fiction-editor meeting tonight, and I went into the database to make a small update...

Jed

October 31, 2002
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How to blog

An interesting article at A List Apart called "10 Tips on Writing the Living Web"—basically a how-to-blog piece. Those of...

Jed

October 30, 2002
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That kind of day

On Monday I went to the dentist and had a cavity filled—this is the one they were going to deal...

Jed

October 30, 2002
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Polyphony

I may write a fuller review some other time, but for now just wanted to say that I've finished reading...

Jed

October 28, 2002
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Disorienting

Some disorienting and disconcerting things: Pulling over to the curb near downtown Tacoma at 12:30 Sunday morning to check the...

Jed

October 27, 2002
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