Hi there,
Here we are with Newsletter number 3.
Thankyou to everyone who has emailed comments about how useful they have found the newsletter. I'm glad I'm on the right track. Sorry about the hiatus, Christmas got in the way. I hope yours was as good as mine.
In this edition:
One of the questions that people often ask me is about the keyboard equivalent of clicking on the buttons in the top right hand corner of a Window to minimise or maximise it. Well what you need to do is to access a special menu which is often called the "application control menu". You do this by pressing alt + the spacebar. The menu drops down from the top left hand corner and gives you a number of options each with its own access key (the underlined letter): maximise (x), minimise (n) for example
This edition's Topical Tip is from Microsoft Word as is a quick way of putting bullet points in your document. (Thanks to Mark for suggesting I put this in.) Here's what you do:
Have fun!
With all the conflict going on in the world, you might be interested in the following bit of light relief - especially if you have the slightest mathematical disposition. (Apologies if you're read this before.)
At New York's Kennedy airport today, an individual later discovered to be a public school teacher was arrested trying to board a flight while in possession of a ruler, a protractor, a set-square, a slide rule, and a calculator.
At a morning press conference, Attorney General John Ashcroft said he believes the man is a member of the notorious al-gebra movement. He is being charged by the FBI with carrying weapons of math instruction.
"Al-gebra is a fearsome cult," Ashcroft said. "They desire average solutions by means and extremes, and sometimes go off on tangents in a search of absolute value. They use secret code names like "x"and "y" and refer to themselves as "unknowns", but we have determined they belong to a common denominator of the axis of medieval with coordinates in every country.
"As the Greek philanderer Isosceles used to say, there are 3 sides to every triangle," Ashcroft continued.
When asked to comment on the arrest, President Bush said, "If God had wanted us to have better weapons of math instruction, He would have given us more fingers and toes.
"I am gratified that our government has given us a sine that it is intent on protracting us from these math-dogs who are willing to disintegrate us with calculus disregard. Murky statisticians love to inflict plane on every sphere of influence," the President said, adding: "Under the circumferences, we must differentiate their root, make our point, and draw the line."
President Bush warned, "These weapons of math instruction have the potential to decimal everything in their math on a scalene never before seen unless we become exponents of a Higher Power and begin to factor-in random facts of vertex."
Attorney General Ashcroft said, "As our Great Leader would say, read my ellipse. There is one principle he is uncertainty of: "Though they continue to multiply, their days are numbered as the hypotenuse tightens around their necks."
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