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How to change e-mail providers

April 28, 2011 By JimK 5 Comments

I change e-mail providers every two or three years, which is long enough, given my advancing years, for me to forget some things about the optimum way to do it. I’m writing myself some notes for next time. I bet I’m not alone in making these kinds of changes, so I’m posting this to give… [Read More]

Voicemail in the cloud

April 27, 2011 By JimK 5 Comments

Our NEC voicemail system died a couple of weeks ago. It was going to be more than $1000 to fix it, so I decided to look at an alternative: a cloud-based voicemail system. AT&T is our local service provider, so I checked out their offering. It appeared to be pretty capable, and quite a step… [Read More]

A new day for The Last Word

April 26, 2011 By JimK Leave a Comment

I haven’t posted in more than a week. It hasn’t been just laziness; Robin Ward and I have been in the process of converting to a new hosting company. Robin’s designed a new website, and integrated the blog into it. The look has changed to match the website. I hope you like it. The reason… [Read More]

THoS: NYT web access fixed

April 17, 2011 By JimK Leave a Comment

After half an hour on the phone with the NYT customer service, my web access is fixed. Turns out that my previous subscription to the NYT crosswords was blocking web access. Go figure.

THoS: a NYT infinite loop

April 17, 2011 By JimK Leave a Comment

Today, I was reading the NYT with a web browser, logged in to my account. I got this message: “That’s kind of weird.” I thought. I kept reading. Pretty soon I got this message: I persisted, and saw this: I was already logged in, so I clicked on the link to link my account, in… [Read More]

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      • Good and bad 25mm FF lenses
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      • Pretty good 90mm FF lens
      • Problematic 400 mm FF lens
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