Computing Pi- Software
Henry Shanks lived in the 1800s and spent 28 years computing pi to 707 places. Unfortunately, he made a mistake at the 528th place and the last several years of …
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You’ve Got Mail
George noticed his neighbor kept running out of his house several times a day to check his mail. When he asked the neighbor if he was expecting something important he …
Read More Internet Black Holes
A black hole has been defined as a region of space with a gravitational force so strong that nothing, including light, can escape it. Some galaxies are believed to have …
Read More World’s Worst Data Loss
Perhaps the worst data loss in history occurred Jan 10, 1896 when a fire at the Commerce Department in Washington DC destroyed the 1890 Census records and years of work …
Read More Internet Time
A January 2005 article in Time magazine reported today’s average internet user spends 3 hours online each day. That is a huge chunk of time: 21 hours a week, 88 …
Read More Computer Folders
You know computers have taken over your life when you would rather get more dots per inch than miles per gallon or when the thought a CD referring to something …
Read More 3 Email Accounts
How many email addresses do you have? If you answered “one” you might be spending too much time with email. Here’s a way to save time 3 accounts. Have one …
Read More Financial Software
One of the most time saving investments you can make is personal financial software. If you use it for nothing else, you should at least be using software for your …
Read More Junk Email
Email can be a tremendous time saving method of communication. Or it can be an awful waste of time. One of the ways we waste time is by reading unsolicited …
Read More Mail Tactics
Spending less time with mail, memos and email means spending more time with people. One system for dealing with paper and email is know as the RAFT method. It stands …
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