Word: logged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fastest-growing part of distance learning is in continuing or executive education," says Brandon Hall, author of Web-Based Training Cookbook (John Wiley & Sons; $39.99), published last year. "Busy professionals trying to manage their work and personal lives can log on to a class late at night or early in the morning, or whenever is best for their schedule. And they're learning only what they really need to know to improve performance on their current job or maybe in preparation for that next...
...that would sound a lot less convincing coming from a multimillionaire trial lawyer if Edwards didn't do a persuasive job of selling what he also is: the son of a small-town (Robbins, N.C., pop. 970 ) textile-mill worker and a shop owner. Offering his version of the log-cabin legend, Edwards likes to tell about visiting Washington for the first time in 1976 as a law school student with a summer internship at the Securities and Exchange Commission. After climbing aboard a bus, he was humiliated by the driver when he didn't know what to do with...
...users may soon get protection from new state taxes. Last week, saying it wished to promote Internet use, the House passed a bill that would prevent most states from taxing online-access fees for three years. It would also prohibit discriminatory taxing of online commerce. Those who would log on in the states that now collect Internet-access taxes (CT, IA, ND, NM, OH, SD, TN, WI)--and are allowed to continue to collect them--are forewarned...
...producers of the real-life baby Sean's birth battled a few glitches. They included one of the oddest pregnancy complications ever: server trouble. Access to the the AHN site was difficult if not impossible as would-be watchers clogged the lines. Some 300,000 people tried to log in to the site, which was set up to handle only about 10,000. Which is probably just as well: Doctors had to induce labor. Perhaps this baby was suffering from stage fright...
Software for filtering out smut has got downright sneaky. Prudence from Blue Wolf Network in Berkeley, Calif., keeps a hidden log of all websites kids visit so parents can monitor them on the sly. Meanwhile, Surf-Watch Educational Edition at once blocks X-rated sites and diverts kids to educational sites such as the Children's Television Workshop and the Tech Museum of Innovation...