Word: computerize
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In 11th grade, Allante Rhodes spent 50 minutes a day in a Microsoft Word class at Anacostia Senior High School in Washington. He was determined to go to college, and he figured that knowing Word was a prerequisite. But on a good day, only six of the school's 14...
3:45 p.m. Chief of reporters comes by. I ask if we can have a meeting in my office. She laughs. Environment reporter wants to know if I'm powering the computer with the treadmill. Sheesh. "I'm working," I say.
I write this as I walk. No, I'm not one of those people who are on their BlackBerry when they should be looking where they're going. Or I might be, but not right now. I'm in a regular office at a regular computer, working on a story...
10:07 a.m. Learn that when you are having computer issues, you cannot simply walk them off.
Benjamin Franklin once remarked that the beginning of wisdom is the knowledge of your own ignorance. This is no longer true. Nowadays, the knowledge of your own ignorance is the beginning of a race towards a computer with Internet access.