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October 2004 - Posts

Election Technology
Sunday, October 31, 2004 1:42 AM

In these last days before the national election in the United States I've dusted off an article I wrote almost 4 years ago about election technology.Just thought it might be interesting reading.-B-

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Quickly Navigate Long Lists of Items
Saturday, October 30, 2004 11:46 PM

Need to navigate to the top or bottom of a long list quickly? Right-click the scroll bar and the context menu will include "Top" or "Bottom."-B-

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New Tablet PC Recognizer Pack Available
Tuesday, October 19, 2004 5:45 PM

The new Tablet Recognizer Pack for the Tablet PC has been released. It includes improvements in the English recognizers and some new languages as well. Here's a useful blog entry you may not have seen.-B-

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Who isn't "In?"
Tuesday, October 19, 2004 6:45 AM

One of the cellular phone companies is running an ad boasting that couples who get a pair of their phones can "talk free." I'm afraid I don't really see the competitive advantage here -- is there a cellular company today that doesn't offer unlimited

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For Better Security, Don't Use Passwords
Saturday, October 16, 2004 1:06 AM

Robert Hensing of Microsoft has a blog post here where he does a fine job of explaining something that I've been saying for quite some time: Don't use passwords. Use Passphrases instead. (in fact I'll be saying it again this coming

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Careful How You Create Those URLs
Tuesday, October 12, 2004 10:27 PM

Much to my surprise I've discovered that if you use capital letters when you name an HTML page you' re saving to your website it makes that URL case-sensitive. I'm sure I'm not the first one to realize this, but it can be rather important......for

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New Stockholm Consulting Website debuts...
Sunday, October 10, 2004 3:17 AM

At long last the new Stockholm Consulting Group website has gone live at http://www.scgab.com. It's still somewhat of a work in progress, but I think it's off to a nice start.-B-

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Cameras Make a Difference
Tuesday, October 05, 2004 9:36 AM

Here's a story describing the impact the proliferaton of digital cameras is having. A crime victim gets a photo of the criminal with his camera phone.Digital cameras can really become important tools at accident scenes, newsworthy events, even in

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