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I’ve been using Excel for years and never had a problem with it before, but with this version, Excel 2007 on a new Dell desktop and Windows 7, it is constantly crashing, as in “Excel is not responding.” And I am not doing anything extremely complicated. Just simple stuff. It is so frustrating, it is basically unusable. Word 2007 looks ok and I haven’t used PowerPoint 2007 yet so I won’t comment on that. I have been exploring OneNote 2007 and it appears to be potentially useful.
Micro Innovations 2 Port

This cleaner is very easy to use and works well – It is a little heavy to move around but only when full of water (and if the tanks were smaller you’d have to keep refilling – so better to be heavy than have to refill every few mins. and I guess you could fill it half way if it was a big deal). The biggests downside is the brushes underneath. They are round spinners and the are are turned by one of the brushes so I’m waiting for that to break and the rotating brushes to stop working. Best part about the machine is the suction – it has a strong suction and leaves the carpet fairly dry.
Cisco SRW2024P 24 port

This product is everything they claim it is. We removed at least a 13 gallon bag of fur from our lab. Even when it seems like no more fur could possibly come out, the furminator finds more.
Cisco SR2016T 16 Port

Several friends who qualify as voracious readers recommended The Help to me. I wasn’t expecting great literature, but I also didn’t expect
such a miserable hodgepodge of stereotypes (did all the white characters except Skeeter have to be so impossibly dimwitted?), meandering subplots that chugged along at half-speed before disintegrating, totally unbelievable plot twists, and a sugar-coated, sanitized depiction of race relations in the pre-Civil Rights South.

Others have mentioned the inconsistency of dialect. Aibileen’s first person accounts, at least those at the beginning of the book, are thick with vernacular, but when Skeeter quotes Aibileen, the use of idiomatic language is much less pronounced. Moreover, the author relies heavily on dialect to differentiate her three main characters: if not for the linguistic tics that characterize them, the protagonists would be hard to distinguish from one another! As it is, the author’s lack of expertise in handling dialect adds a layer of dissonance to the entire book.

The plot hinges on the reader accepting that a dozen women would collaborate on a hot potato of a book despite the dangers of doing so. Okay, I’ll bite. But I have a much harder time believing that the brilliant Skeeter would be so clumsy in her execution, theoretically imperiling the lives of her subjects (and perhaps the wellbeing of her own family). And can it really be possible that in a city of 200,000, everyone knows everyone else? It’s hard to find much satisfaction in a story that depends on the confluence of so many unlikely coincidences.

In many ways, this is a one-star book. I’m bumping it up to 2.5 stars because it’s an easy read, and because of two characters who made the narrative less tedious. Mean girl par excellence Hilly is a villain to rival Cruella de Vil. Whenever she’s in the room, everyone perks up. Sure, she’s over the top and a mite predictable, but that’s what makes her fun. Skeeter’s clueless but indomitable mothe
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