I made a small change in Microsoft Word today that will make my life incredibly easy.

I discovered how to disable the Overtype Mode, toggled by the Insert key. So I will no longer accidentally type over existing text because I have accidentally pressed the Insert key. Thank goodness for small mercies.

http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/1069/word-disable-the-insert-key-to-permanently-turn-off-overtype-mode/

Kill the Insert Key:
1. Start Word
2. …

You too can now become a manufacturer overnight!

The availability of components and white label parts, as well as the expertise to assembe these into just about anything at attractive price points.

Or just buy and rebadge complete goods!

What are the implications?

Zero differentiation.
Hollow brands.
Minimal actual choice for consumers.
Lots of busy-ness in the short term.
Lots of unsustainable businesses to fail. Resources to waste.
More demand for easy-fix shallow marketing.
More spam.

What are the …

Right now, social media is boring. Just like normal media is boring.

Most human chatter IS boring most of the time. Try and listen in on conversations at cafes and restaurants. Keep your ears open at functions and family events. Social media is primarily a giant gossip pit. Very human. Just as we have been for millennia. It is gossip and fluff. See the screengrab here. …

Facebook and Radical Transparency – A Rant
Via Andrew Boyd on Facebook.

Given my recent annoyance with Facebook forcing me to share it or lose it, I am not surprised.

This definitely goes against what CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a recent Time magazine article “What people want isn’t complete privacy … It’s that they want control over what they share and what they don’t.”

With the Internet, …

Actually no. I am not that excited by the iPad. Not as a thing, a fashion accessory or the fad.

Technically it has little interest – like an iPhone but bigger and no phone. It’s quite thin, and beautifully executed as a piece of industrial design (barring concerns with scratch and fingermark resistance). The virtual keyboard is definite too annoying to be seriously usable for me – not that …

“Multi contact point surface” sounds like multitouch no?

Here is the original image on Vintage Ad Browser. Here are some graphics tablet reviews from 1984 on Atari Magazines.

This is a quick snip snip of the choicest bits, the bits that stood out for me as I was reading this article, “Nice and nasty does it: Shirky the ‘net guru’ on what the future holds” by Decca Aitkenhead in the Sydney Morning Herald:

“And to put it in one bleak sentence, no medium has ever survived the indifference of 25-year-olds.”

The business model of the traditional …

Ugh – bleeding Wordpress is still missing my scheduled posts.
That is why you are getting them in lumps of twos and threes.

Tried different solutions to no avail.
Will have to just put up with it and wait for version 2.9.3 I guess.
Not enough time and energy to fight this battle.

Sigh…

Microsoft doesn’t want their new Xbox 360 to show the dreaded red ring of death (when a “catastrophic system error” occurs) any more, so they removed the red LEDs from the ring!

Hey I don’t want the building I am living in to burn down, so let’s remove all the fire alarms. Or maybe change them to a gentle calming prayer bell sound instead.

Ha ha.

http://gizmodo.com/5566600/the-new-xbox-360-wont-red-ring

I just got pissed off with Facebook trying to make me do something I don’t want to do.

I log on and get this message.

“We have improved the Profile … so it links to Pages instead.” Yeah yeah so what, let me get to what I am here to do.

“Remember, your Pages are Public” Ok fine thanks for the warning I don’t have …