{"id":958,"date":"2010-08-08T14:57:32","date_gmt":"2010-08-08T19:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mdmproofing.com\/iym\/weblog\/?p=958"},"modified":"2010-08-08T14:57:32","modified_gmt":"2010-08-08T19:57:32","slug":"know-youre-a-dork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mdmproofing.com\/iym\/weblog\/2010\/08\/know-youre-a-dork\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Know You&#8217;re a Dork"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past week, I replaced my laptop (a 5-year-old Dell Inspiron) with a fresh &#8216;n&#8217; shiny Toshiba Satellite A665-S6050.<\/p>\n<p>Inherent in this upgrade was my switchover from Windows XP Home, which I loved, to Windows 7 Professional, for which I don&#8217;t yet have a verdict.  <\/p>\n<p>(No, I never so much as bothered with Vista.  In fact, a couple of years ago, I purchased a second Dell laptop for my wife.  My first out-of-the-box change?  Wipe the hard drive and its Vista operating system, and replace it with a clean, non-OEM-cluttered full version of XP Home.)<\/p>\n<p>However, based on something I just discovered, Windows 7 just got <b>big<\/b> bonus points in my book.  If you&#8217;re a power user of the calculator in Windows, as I am, you just gotta love this revamp:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mdmproofing.com\/iym\/weblog\/graphics\/win7-calc.gif\" alt=\"Windows 7 Calculator\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p><i>Giggity.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>And yes, I am a complete dork.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past week, I replaced my laptop (a 5-year-old Dell Inspiron) with a fresh &#8216;n&#8217; shiny Toshiba Satellite A665-S6050. Inherent in this upgrade was my switchover from Windows XP Home, which I loved, to Windows 7 Professional, for which I don&#8217;t yet have a verdict. (No, I never so much as bothered with Vista. 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