Tag: error

Hall’s Rule of Social Order #94

19 November, 2012 (12:00) | Hall's Rules of Social Order

User education is not an acceptable replacement for quality or good process.   Stop trying to pass it off as if it is.  We’ve all been there, I’m sure.  Someone is trying to sell you something, or give you something they don’t want, but you have to do something special in order to get the […]

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typing 2 spaces after a sentence is wrong

6 May, 2011 (12:00) | FYI/DIY

Typing 2 spaces after a period at the end a sentence is wrong. Maybe “wrong” is too strong, but it’s not right.  Don’t believe me?  Go ask the experts, like the Modern Language Association – http://www.mla.org/style_faq3 It stems back to the old days of typewriters, where each character took up the same “space” as any […]

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