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Your Taxes
I guess from an early age everyone hears the overly used refrain that nothing is inevitable but death and taxes. A corollary to this is that once enacted a tax NEVER EVER goes away. It seems the congressional calculator has a + key but the – key is broken. This fact was recently brought into […]
Posted: February 10th, 2005 under General.
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Book Cataloging
Over many years of avid reading my wife and I have collected quite a library. In addition, as the son of a career school librarian I have an instinctive love for accumulating books. When PC’s first became available it seemed natural to use them to keep your book collection records. But alas, as most database […]
Posted: January 31st, 2005 under General.
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Interesting Books
Last year I picked up the British and US “run away†best seller ‘Eats, Shoots and Leaves’ by Lynne Truss. For anyone interested in the English language, the vagaries of punctuation or punctuation history, this is a fascinating little book. Highly recommended. During a recent trip to the UK I came across an equally charming […]
Posted: January 28th, 2005 under General.
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