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Firefox Spellcheck dictionary

A couple of times now I’ve had to hunt down the location of the dictionary for Firefox because in the popup for a misspelled word has ‘Add to dictionary’ too close to the word I want to change to (and...

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Fixing the time

Ed Bott on how to fix the time sync in Windows (and the godawful error: “The time sample was rejected because: The peer’s stratum is less than the host’s stratum.”) He notes this list of alternate time...

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Weird bug

Let’s say, for example, that a system supplies you the time of some event in UTC, you convert it to local and shove the date/time up on the display. Say, for argument’s sake, you also include the Day...

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NineMSN perfects time travel

NineMSN’s video pages appear not to work in Chrome, but even when you get them to display in IE, the maths on the stories is a little odd. How can “August 4, 2009″ be “1 year ago”?

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Real Estate Websites Suck: Part 4

I’ve decided that I’m only going to look for properties with 4 (or more) bedrooms. I enter this as a search criteria, and the website says quite clearly “Results for properties for rent with 4+...

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