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Cory Doctorow of BoingBoing fame wrote about ways to prevent trolls from destroying an otherwise tranquil online community in an article for InformationWeek. One of the strategies he mentions is to remove all the vowels from hostile posts. To me this sounds like a good way to let people know you disapprove, without being too [...]

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Inscribe your e-mail address on the back of your iPod so that if you, say, accidentally drop it when you get out of the car, the person who finds it might be kind enough to return it to you. I'm totally iPod-less, and I feel utterly naked without it. And my home PC died. Again. [...]

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…but I need to get it out because I have no one to to talk to about it. Last week a young, beautiful, intelligent, and very capable coworker of ours took her own life. Someone I've worked with for years. None of us had any idea she was depressed. Her funeral was last Saturday, and [...]

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I've reverted to my natural state, a self-absorbed hermit geek trying to force myself to grow a bigger brain. See, I've got this anxiety problem ever since childhood. It's rooted in the mantra, "I have to, but I can't," and it can be applied to many situations in life. It's the thought pattern that stresses [...]

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