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Microsoft office has received a needed facelift that will keep the software competitive against the likes of Dropbox and Google Drive. Office is making the jump to the cloud in a big way. As usual, the GUI has been tweaked, which you'll notice in this side-by-side comparison of the "ribbon" from the both the 2013 (above) and 2016 (below) versions of Mircrosoft Word ...

Did you know it's an election year? Not just any election year, mind you. Later this year, U.S. voters will head to the polls to decide whether it's time to Make America Great Again, or whether we're better off seeking to become Stronger Together. Of course, there are still some diehards out there hoping that we might have A Future to Believe In instead of getting Stronger Together, but ... the numbers just don't add up, fellas. At any rate, things have gotten to the stage at which it's temporarily most interesting to speculate about who will be the fallback option for each potential presidency.

We're almost halfway through 2016, and it's shaping up to be another great year. Everything is coming up Kyle! The family is doing well, the soccer team that I coach — 12-year-old girls — is undefeated again this year, and my main man, Steph Curry, is flying high. With back-to-back MVP awards and a soon-to-be second straight NBA championship, it’s no wonder that I love the guy.

A ring made of a precious metal like gold does not come out of the ground in its final shape and with its quintessential shine. The metal first has to go through an arduous refining process, and I’m not talking about any magical forging that takes place in the fires of Mount Doom. When precious metals are mined, they are impure. Gold, for instance, is rarely 100 percent gold when it is discovered. In order for it to be declared “pure gold,” it has to first be melted down and infused with chlorine gas, which separates all other metals from the gold.

There are a lot of unflattering depictions of technical support and help desk employment — and employees — both in the realm of pop culture and in the world at large. The picture of surly geeks, both disdainful of and disinterested in your problem, picking up the phone or logging you into the ticket queue is so ingrained that a lot of people staring at a tech snafu would rather try almost anything else than, you know, ask the help desk for some, uh, help.