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Slimjet Censors Websites

Posted on January 11, 2023 by ehurst

In the past I had recommended the Slimjet browser as a good alternative to Google Chrome. It has some nifty features. However, an unexpected “feature” recently appeared: It censors some websites. I was testing how Slimjet worked under certain conditions … Continue reading →

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What Would You Expect?

Posted on April 18, 2021 by ehurst

Let me recommend a couple of long readings. Brandon Smith still shows his sharp recognition of some issues with his article, Globalists Will Need Another Crisis In America As Their Reset Agenda Fails. His thesis is that the US will … Continue reading →

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Revisiting the Definition of “Game”

Posted on November 7, 2019 by ehurst

Jack and I have been conversing about this some more. Maybe this will clarify: Game is roughly equivalent to charisma. You can abuse your charms or you can use them help people listen to your message. You are born with … Continue reading →

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Windows 10 Adventure: Upgrade from Win7

Posted on April 26, 2019 by ehurst

Today I performed my first hands-on upgrade of a client’s Win7 machine to Win10. Most of the time it should just adopt the Win7 license, but this one was hacked, so it required a new key. It was about $2 … Continue reading →

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Understanding Spiritual Gifts PDF

Posted on February 26, 2019 by ehurst

Here’s the link to the PDF file combining all the parts to my study in Understanding Spiritual Gifts: Spiritual Gifts. As a side not to my regulars: I had to ditch WordPerfect Office. After all these years, there are still … Continue reading →

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MS Office Fails

Posted on February 16, 2019 by ehurst

I am not one of those elitists who considers MS Office too pedestrian, as if the sanctity of Perfect Office is so superior. The latter is better, but not for the reasons most aficionados offer. Nor is LibreOffice so cool … Continue reading →

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A Few Minor Technology Notes

Posted on October 10, 2017 by ehurst

I’m willing to test something in every way possible so you don’t have to. However, I’ll never tell you that my results are definitive for anyone but me. Feel free to discover a contradicting result on your own. But if … Continue reading →

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Windows Dead Mail

Posted on October 2, 2017 by ehurst

Sometime early this year, Microsoft phased out support for Windows Live Mail, their free email client. In a silent update, all mail accounts were switched from POP3 to IMAP. Your collected old mails didn’t go anywhere, and you could still … Continue reading →

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Google World

Posted on September 7, 2017 by ehurst

Consumer software is a moving target and any advice I might offer is obsolete three days later. On the tail of my advice to switch from Chrome-based browsers to Mozilla-based, I now read some of the less public chatter and … Continue reading →

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Bits and Pieces 23

Posted on May 23, 2017 by ehurst

WordPerfect is vastly superior technology for documents. The underlying concept is based on long established principles of formating electronic documents and is self-consistent. It really is the right way to do things. It was also easy to repair and recover … Continue reading →

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