Dr Wingnut

Author: Dr Wingnut

  • A Million Monkeys

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    We’ve heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.Robert Wilensky, speech at a 1996 conference

  • Compassion

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    Unless our desire for human compassion is stronger than our desire to be right, to be secure or to belong, love will elude us.Marsha Sinetar

  • Thoughts on an Honored institution

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    You have two choices in life: You can stay single and be miserable, or get married and wish you were dead.At a cocktail party, one woman said to another, “Aren’t you wearing your wedding ring on the wrong finger?”  “Yes, I am. I married the wrong man.”A lady inserted an ‘ad’ in the classifieds: “Husband…

  • Too bad. So sad.

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    I feel horrible that, once again, someone has invaded my privacy.Hotel heiress and professional celebrity Paris Hilton, in an interview with US Weekly magazine, on the posting of the contents of her cell-phone address book on the Internet

  • Stuff that runs at Windows startup

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    In addition to the applications that are in the startup folder, there is another place that contains startup applications.  These items are stored in the registry in the My Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run key.  This is a good place to start looking when you can’t figure out where some spyware or other application is being launched from.When you look…

  • Success

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    Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere.  Self-pity gets you nowhere.  One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world — making the most of one’s best.Harry Emerson Fosdick

  • PDAers from hell

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    Few things in the world spread as much misery as a happy, smiling, well-adjusted pair of newly minted lovebirds.  Wherever you go — shopping malls, restaurants, target ranges — you’re likely to run into this evil breed, grinning, giggling and holding hands like a pair of lovestruck teenagers.  What is it about a happy couple…