May 2012
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Mike McGrady, Known for a Literary Hoax, Dies at...
By MARGALIT FOX
Mike McGrady, a prizewinning reporter for Newsday who to his chagrin was best known as the mastermind of one of the juiciest literary hoaxes in America — the best-selling collaborative novel “Naked Came the Stranger,” whose publication in 1969 made “Peyton Place” look like a church picnic — died on Sunday in Shelton, Wash. He was 78 and lived in Lilliwaup, Wash.[[MORE]]
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Using a friend's Mac to work on 2 projects
That explains the car crash post. I’ll be here all day working. ^_^
I have my cloned hard drive hooked up to his machine to get these projects back on schedule. Between having a bad cold and my machine dying, I’m a week behind on these.
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Dead Computer...
I’ll see all you cool people when I can.
from my iPod
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I may be mostly missing for a couple of months
Computer problems. We’re hoping I don’t have a faulty video-card / motherboard situation. I did diagnose a dying hard drive last night. Since laptop miniaturization makes devices share so many busses, etc, I’m hoping just replacing the drive solves everything.
Right now, I’m booted from an external SSD via USB. If this solves the problem, I’ll put it inside and...
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Too much, too fast: Britain bedeviled by binge... →
tballardbrown:
Binge drinking has reached crisis levels in Britain, health experts say, costing the cash-strapped National Health Service 2.7 billion pounds (US$4.4 billion) a year, including the cost of hospital admissions related to booze-fueled violence and longer-term health problems. Unlike all other major health threats, liver disease is on the rise in Britain, increasing by 25 percent in...
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Adobe backs down, will secure last generation of...
Fixes for flaws in Flash, Illustrator, and Photoshop won’t require an upgrade
by John Timmer, May 13, 2012
Late last week, Adobe set off a bit of a kerfuffle when it announced that three of its applications suffered from serious security flaws. They offered readers a simple fix: pay to upgrade to the latest version. Considering the latest version of the company’s Creative Suite...
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