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Bush over Kerry in electoral votes?
As of this writting in late July, Bush has a slight lead over Kerry in the electoral votes - 217 vs. 193. States that are a toss up, or lean on way or another could make this Presidential election very similar to the last one. In 2000, when the Supreme Court halted the counting of ballots in Florida and gave the states totals to Bush, he won with a total of 271 - one more than needed. Al Gore had overall more individual votes, but only totalled 267 electoral votes.
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Show all in Device Manager
The Windows registry keeps track of all hardware devices that have been installed on the machine. The Device Manager only displays the hardware devices that are currently connected to the machine. Hardware that is not currently connected, such as a USB device, or a Firewire hard disk is not shown. Over time, a lot of devices can be registered, particularly if you connect the same device to different USB ports.
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New Microsoft Mouse by Philippe Starck
Noted designer Philippe Starck who works under the name of S+ARCK has designed a new mouse for Microsoft. Inspired by the two hemispheres of the brain, the mouse is divided down the center by a glowing strip. In the pictures on Microsoft's web site, the glow is a soft blue surrounded by a white shell.
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Chicago Parks, Meigs Field and Mayor Daley
I was fairly outraged when I read USA Today's fawning article on Chicago Mayor Daley and his efforts in creating park space in the city. Normally park space is a good thing, but his midnight, quasi-illegal destruction of the historic Meigs Field airport last year was an outrage. Here's a letter to the editor I sent to USA Today:
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Pasting random text into Microsoft Word
Ever need to put some text into a document quickly? Maybe you need to demonstrate a feature or want some filler. I used to type qwerty or asdf over and over again. Microsoft Word has a quick and easy way to do it. Just type =rand() on a blank line and press Enter. Word will replace that line with:
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Intel's PCI Vender ID
Each vendor of hardware that is designed for the PCI bus is assigned a identification number for their products.