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Internet Safety Tips

By alex | Published: 8/13/2006
I was cleaning out boxes from my old office in Buffalo, and came across this mouse pad that was given to me by a special agent of the FBI. Especially given the passage of DOPA in the House, it made me think a bit about how many of these tips I follow: 1. Never give […]
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DOPA, WTF

By alex | Published: 7/28/2006
I admit it: I thought DOPA was too dopey to be very worried about. After all, Net Neutrality seemed to me to be more important in the long run, and more embattled. I never imagined that DOPA would make it very far, and so I wasn\’t worried about it. As Will Richardson notes the anti-social […]
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The New Yorker on Wikipedia

By alex | Published: 7/28/2006
The New Yorker has a very nice article on Wikipedia, which sums up the site better than I\’ve seen it done, and (as noted by David Robinson) Wikipedia agrees with that assessment. It will be a nice item to add to introductory social computing readings–something the Atlantic Monthly (esp. Charles Mann) has been a good […]
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Finding last names in Excel

By alex | Published: 7/12/2006
I talked to someone today who had a list of names in Excel, and wanted to sort them by last name. Unfortunately, they were not split into first / last names. What is the (non-programmer) to do? It’s actually a good opportunity to talk about doing stuff in Excel, since it tends to be a […]
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