Sep 8, 2007

OfficeDepot Coupons

Posted in Coupons at 4:55 pm by David Bradley -- 2 Comments; add yours

Some of us are old enough to recall a time when forward-thinking TV shows like the BBC’s classic Tomorrow’s World promised us the “paperless” office. This was during a period of massive technological development when mainframe computers were coming to the fore and the very first personal computer was being hinted at. It seems that the paperless office never happened. By the time I’d left University and started work in a publishers there was more …

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Sep 1, 2007

Free Computing Magazines Offline

Posted in Coupons at 4:00 pm by David Bradley -- 1 Comment

Most of us don’t really want to spend 24/7/365 online, occasionally there are times when we need to go, ahem, offline and find a peaceful place to read. Until they come up with a truly portable device that’s as easy to read as a print magazine, print magazines will under certain, ahem, circumstances be what we need.

That said, the chosen reading material can be about online matters, so …

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Jul 28, 2007

Acronyms, abbreviations, and HSN coupons

Posted in Coupons at 11:00 pm by David Bradley -- 4 Comments; add yours

Acronyms and abbreviations have always been a hobby horse of mine. Too many publications use them almost randomly without bothering to define. I suspect I’ve been guilty of that on occasion, but I try not to slip up. I was reading a PhD thesis the other day that had so many acronyms and abbreviations without definition that I felt like failing the candidate there and then. Of course, I didn’t, it wasn’t my call.

If you’re …

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