Electronic payment systems are convenient and secure. So why is acceptance slow? Making money – and we do mean printing your own currency – is a crazy idea. Fraught with problems. Controls. Design. Counterfeits. Legality. Acceptance. Those in favor say it stimulates the local economy and protects against economic uncertainty. But as an competitor to…
Google Search helps debunk unconfirmed Internet stories What a fishbowl of confusion I found through a Google search on attention span. One of the difficulties of the Internet is that reality often is neither confirmed or unconfirmed. On the Internet you can read just about anything and not know whether it is true or not.…
Wasting time on the Internet, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. A common sight in our age of electronics is that of people walking with head down, intent on their smart-phone screen. Texting or reading, these people are absorbed. They are captivated by the delight of communicating silently around the world or…
Pinned locations make hard-to-find documents ready to hand. I have documents I use daily and those that I use monthly. Those I visit on a daily basis I can find without problem – usually. But those that I use less frequently can sometimes tax my memory! Where did I store that? In my general Databases…