Learning Bad Habits

Microsoft is hot on the trail of protecting you from yourself. There are a litany of security precautions being added to popular applications, these are introducing additional confirmation steps before a requested action can take place. One example is when you attempt to install a new program on Windows Vista and there is a succession of confirmations. Do you want to open this file? Do you want to allow this program to run? Every option has the default setting marked to abort the desired operation, so you quickly learn to pick the non-default buttons when performing this kind of task.

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Lovable Luggables

In the past decade, obesity in America has nearly doubled with more than 30% of adults now classified as obese. It seems the growth of the laptop computer market has mirrored this trend, with the current crop of high-end portable computers weighing in at 15-20lbs the luggable is back.

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