Tech support a mother could love
Published 11:19 pm Monday, September 29, 2008
If you’re handy with PCs, the following news will fill you with dread. Walt Mossberg’s got the lowdown on new software that lets you fix someone’s PC by remote control.
You know what that’s gonna mean: hours of tedium staring at the jumbled innards of Mom’s PC as you move 2,456 photos from the desktop to the My Pictures folder.
But look at it this way: You can also remotely access Mom’s computer to uninstall the remote-access software.
Joey Ramone is rolling in his grave. Leather jackets have caught on with the “Sex and the City” crowd, who pair them with chiffon blouses instead of ripped jeans.
In related fashion news, the thousands of riders who rumbled up to Anacortes for the Oyster Run on Sunday paired their leather jackets with $650 Harley payments.
A new study about kids’ activity levels says that middle-class kids really aren’t overscheduled by their manic soccer moms, busting faulty assumptions to the contrary.
Just like our faulty assumption that our 401(k) account would keep growing forever.
