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December 06, 2004 - QUESTION Is it ever appropriate to use profanities in an email? LAEL: YES It's okay by my standards to use profanities in email to people that you would normally ...

December 06, 2004 - It's hard to ever say never, especially when it comes to email. The advice committee decided 4-1 that while cussing online isn't necessarily a good thing, it can come in handy every once in awhile.

December 03, 2004 - I'm not going to jump on the bandwagon and say the new video game JFK Reloaded is a disgrace. More importantly, a game like this could ...

November 29, 2004 - I have returned. Oh yeah, you probably didn't even know I was gone. I took a little vacation to Hawaii for snorkeling and a basketball tournament. Although there were many high profile people there in ...

November 24, 2004 - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has added .post and .travel to its list of allowable domain names. Businesses and groups apparently will have the right to apply for these domai ...

November 22, 2004 - I don't recall exactly how I found this, but the longest single word domain (without hyphens) is llan ...

November 19, 2004 - Maybe it's nice to be the wealthiest person in the world. I guess it would be nice to have a full-time maid or someone to butter a piece of toast for me, if that's what rich people do these days. But ...

November 16, 2004 - Although grammar, spelling and punctuation appears to be optional these days, particularly on the web, it definitely doesn't hurt to at least know the rules of the English language. At best, it might ...

November 12, 2004 - Why do so many people use AOL? Do they think that's the only Internet Service Provider in existence? Are they entranced by receiving CDs in the mail, thinking if they just join, they won't receive the ...

November 10, 2004 - Transferring any domain to your own control is about to be come a breeze. Or maybe not.

November 07, 2004 - I don't think there is an official group named FOFDP (fans of fake Dr Pepper), but after viewing the Faked Dr Pepper website, ...

November 04, 2004 - I haven't seen any exact data on this, because I'm not even sure it's available, but I'm guessing perhaps one in eight websites have background music playing on them. While some sites use the music to ...

November 04, 2004 - QUESTION Do you think it's a good idea to have music playing in the background on a website? AMANDA: YES Yes, if and ONLY if it is professionally done and it pro ...

November 02, 2004 - Either your guy won or he lost. OK, maybe he didn't run at all, or maybe your guy is imaginary. Regardless, the voting is over, so it's time to move on. But will everyone be nice to each other? At ...

November 01, 2004 - At this very moment, someone could be watching your every move, directly through your computer. PEEK-A-BOO! No, it's not me. I have much, much better things to do, like collecting the Iowa quarter ...

October 26, 2004 - When I originally wrote this, I was also keeping tabs on the St. Louis-Boston World Series game. It's a distraction I can live with, though, because baseball is more important than telling you what's ...

October 24, 2004 - Hopefully this is old news for you, but Microsoft on Oct. 12 announced 10 security advisories, which corrects 22 new flaws within its operating system and products. If you haven't updated your compute ...

October 21, 2004 - The holiday season is upon us again. Then again, what if every season, or even every day, was the holiday season? It's hard to imagine, but virtually every day is celebrated by some group, and I'm ...

October 20, 2004 - QUESTION Would you meet someone you met or chatted with online, even if you had never seen a picture of the person? BEN: NO The safest answer is no, you shouldn' ...

October 20, 2004 - If you think about it, you come into contact with new people every day. So why do people act differently if you meet someone online versus in person? It is easier to hide behind profiles on persona ...

October 17, 2004 - I'm a big fan of frogs, and the reason is somewhat strange. I used to work at an amusement park, and I always seemed to be working at the game where you hit the rubber frog into a lily pad. The word g ...

October 15, 2004 - If you're like me and wish that one night in October, you could find enough people to reconstruct Michael Jackson's "Thriller" video, you're in luck. No, I don't have email addresses for backup dancer ...

October 12, 2004 - Sometime on Oct. 12, the 1,000 unique person made it to my website. I wish I would have had sirens sounding, fireworks exploding and music playing, but I didn't. It was too much work to figure out the ...

October 10, 2004 - Recently I was in one of those click-and-conquer moods. You know, where you find something decent to read on a news website, then you see another link, which takes you to something else that looks pre ...

October 07, 2004 - QUESTION When receiving multiple political emails that you disagree with from a friend, you should tell the person to stop sending them? NATE: NO I do not have a ...

October 06, 2004 - See that guy in the office next to you? He might be crazy, but he's not quite as crazy as he was a few years ago. According to my extremely scientific Ultimate Crazy Survey, readers have decreased ...

October 05, 2004 - I've been fortunate enough to not receive too many political emails, and virtually none that made me angry toward one side or another. But I know these emails are circulating everywhere, so I'm going ...

October 04, 2004 - Coca-Cola has been treading in deep waters the last few months.

October 01, 2004 - There's a lot of talk about truth going around these days. Not that it is any different than any other period of mankind's history, at least after truth was invented. It's mildly interesting to imagin ...

September 29, 2004 - With the presidential election nearing faster than teenage girls swarming the New Kids on the Block, it's time to make a decision. But why bother going to the polls when there are so many more interes ...