Notes from Meatspace

I always loved teaching kids about writing. Helping them figure out how to say just what they meant and watching them discover they could entertain, inform, provoke, and create with their words was wonderful fun.
How ill prepared I was for the wasteland of techspeak. Something bad happens to intelligent, caring, thoughtful people when they start […]

Posted on August 21st, 2007 by Curt Lieneck
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It’s Two, Two, Two Mints in One

It’s a candy mint! It’s a breath mint! It’s two, two, two mints in one!
I’m dating myself with this ad reference from many years ago, but I thought of it recently while reading a thread on a tech listserv. In a lively exchange, two subscribers disagreed about how tightly desktop security features should be locked […]

Posted on August 15th, 2007 by Curt Lieneck
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