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...heard it at some point in the stressful search for colleges: “Oh, Harvard, Princeton, Yale…they’re the top three.” But check www.rankyourcollege.com and you might find that even Harvard ranks at a lowly five. Hit the refresh button your browser though, and Harvard might have rocketed to the top again...
Although the colleges’ order is very similar to those lists that lure in such faithful readers each year, Rojstaczer’s program was designed to switch the order slightly with every click of the “Refresh” button. This is where the humor lies...
...Tuesday I was playing around with the latest beta version of XP on my home machine. I'd tried it before (see columns passim) only to scramble for the deinstall button when it caused a dozen different conflicts. But this time, after 24 hours of tweaking, it worked. I finally had a stable Windows environment that refused to crash on me. I was just ogling the cool blue taskbar and gorgeous 3D icons the afternoon Microsoft announced - very, very quietly - that there would be no Java support built into XP. When the final version is launched, if you really truly...
...final test was the beautifully simple iTunes, freely (and, sadly, only) available for Macs. Build a playlist, click on a button and let it burn, baby. My first iTunes CD was so easy to make and so glitch free, I had tears in my eyes. Tears, because all my music is on the other computer...
...pushed a button on the outside of it, it made a whirring sound, a lid opened, a small plastic hand reached out of the box, and pushed the button again....The hand withdrew, the box lid closed, and all was silence again. A battery-operated metaphysical joke...