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“For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn.” - (Famous 6-word short story winner)

Here’s a guide to writing in 140 characters or less. With the advent of Twitter and SMS, the ability to express yourself succinctly and with brevity is becoming all the more important Click here to read this article

For those who want the article in summary form:

• Use strong verbs and a minimum of adverbs
• Avoid “university words”
• Forget about breaking your thoughts into two posts
• Write first, then trim
• Cut out the words “that” and “which”. “The toy train that my sister got for Christmas” can be “The toy train my sister got for Christmas.”
• Eliminate personal pronouns. “I am going to the Apple store” can be “Going to the Apple Store”.
• Write short sentences
• Use punctuation!
• Be personal
• Get to the point.

We at Ed Tech are far too serious to condone pranks. However, we feel it necessary to include a link to the following site listing the 25 Best High-Tech pranks to make you aware of what you might be up against. Click here

Here’s our personal favourite, No: 3 as listed in this site:

Disappearing Desktop

Just head over to an unattended computer, minimize all the windows, and hit the Print Screen key. Paste the captured image into any graphic editing program — even Microsoft Paint will do — then save the file and set it as the desktop background. Then, all you have to do is hide the actual icons on the desktop — put them in a folder somewhere — and your victim will try endlessly to click the nonexistent icons, which are actually just part of the background image. For another variation, leave one program open when you capture the screen and watch as the person tries to click on it, type in it, and close it to no avail.