Why go to Mars? Let’s make the Northeast habitable first
Alarming, this finding from Cornell that the landing site of the Spirit, in the Gusev crater on Mars, was warmer yesterday afternoon than 14 major points in the Northeast. For the record, the landing site was 12° F, while the warmest city noted, Providence, RI, was only 9° F, while of course Mount Washington, NH, [...]
On helping customers, or the questions we get
Joe Bork posted a hilarious list of real and made up questions that people ask him when they learn he works for Microsoft. My favorites:
How to use Word’s Mail Merge feature
How to use Excel’s PivotTable feature
How to use PowerPoint’s Slide Transition feature
How to use Outlook’s Journal feature
What that one error message means, come on, [...]

