- The weakness of Microsoft Office for the Mac makes it tough to use OS X as my primary office operating system (maybe it’s just because I’ve used Office for Windows for the last 12 years as much primary office programs). But even after having a MacBook Pro as my office computer for more than 2 years, when I comes to writing, I still boot up Windows instead of using OS X because Offices for Windows is superior.
- For it to makes economic sense in California to save money by driving a Chevy Volt, oil prices need to be twice as expensive as they are today (between $171 and $254 a barrel).
- Martha Stewart apparently has a skull in her kitchen.
- Palin’s Not Complicit in Loughner Shooting, but She Sure Ain’t Presidential, Either.
- Ann Althouse: It makes more sense to teach children creationism than to teach them that politicians are pure of heart motivated only by the desire to serve the common good.
- Why you should never, ever use two spaces after a period according to one self-important writer.
- I don’t recommend The Dragon Keeper by Robin Hobb. It is just way too slow. It’s 500 pages and it feels like a it is just the setup.
- Chernobyl: Environmental dead zone or eco heaven?
- To reduce CO2 emissions to what some science climate scientists believe we should, it will only require building a nuclear power plant every day for the next 40 years.
- A brief history of computing from Life.
Life, Liberty, and Property
I was taught in typing class in high school that we were supposed to put two spaces after a period (also after a colon
so that is what I’ve always done. I’m not sure I can get in the habit of leaving out the extra space but I’m going to try. Not because of the self important writer but because the argument makes a little bit of sense.
Thanks for the warning on “The Dragon Keeper.” I hope all is going well for you guys. Are you going to be coming out here again anytime soon?
Ugh…that wasn’t supposed to be a smiley in the comment above. I put an actual colon next to a parenthesis. That was pretty dumb of me I guess. Yet another typing rule I’ll need to remember!
Sorry for all the comments but I read this post right after yours:
http://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2011/01/you-can-have-my-double-space-when-you-pry-it-from-my-cold-dead-hands/69592/