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Rubbing alcohol can be your friend, but only if your office is well ventilated.
"Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity."
- Hanlon's Razor
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Effective in the short term but will eventually render the board useless. The alcohol destroys the lubricating layer of the board. Best to use a whiteboard cleaner that doubles as a conditioner.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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Pro tip, thanks!
"Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity."
- Hanlon's Razor
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David Crow wrote: Best to use a whiteboard cleaner that doubles as a conditioner.
This is starting to sound like a shampoo commercial. 
Actually, my best solution for dry-erase marker that won't go away is to draw on top of the existing marks, and immediately erase, while the new marks still haven't yet dried. You might go through a lot of ink, but I've salvaged an otherwise pretty much ruined whiteboard using that method.
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I mentioned that earlier, but it won't work on a board gone bad. Once the lubricating layer of the board is gone, it cannot be cleaned no matter what you use.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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dandy72 wrote: After that much time, so-called "dry erase markers" might as well be permanent markers...
Write over the dried marker with a fresh one and it should wipe right off.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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I just wrote that as a reply to another proposed solution.
Yeah, it totally works...but you have to prepare to use a lot of ink, depending on how bad you've allowed it to get.
Let's call that a lesson learned.
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I've replaced my pen/pencil usage during work by about 99%.
For quick bits such as jotting down info from a voice mail, I pull up notepad and type the relevant details like numbers, then delete it after the fact.
In meetings, I have a 13" HP Spectre x360 convertable, digital pen, and OneNote for taking notes. I don't use the handwriting to text feature, better than it used to be but still completely useless. Previously used paper and pen to do the same but I never copied them into any digital format so organizing them for future use didn't happen and after a dozen pads of paper it was a stack of unsearchable data.
For information recall and parsing out the useless details, I personally find it is better to hand write notes instead of typing them. Many of the studies being conducted on memory retention back me up.
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All the best stuff is paper (scrap) and pen.
Shopping Lists, phone numbers, other real-life content:
To begin with, it's much more portable. Actually, that's pretty much good enough!
Some development stuff, too. I've tried to make text-editor checklists and stuff, but so far they seem to just persist endlessly in the editor, where I have to decide whether to keep them or not, and if I do keep them (=save file), where, so I don't end up with a shyte-load of old scrap files.
One problem, however, is it's hard to keep cleaning the marker off of my monitors.
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Despite using digital notes rather extensively in all forms--Windows 10's Sticky Notes, One-Note, and even small plain-text files--my desk still seems to find itself covered in paper notes.
I swear I don't know how this happens.
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I use pen & paper all the time. Any paper that comes off the printer that is not claimed goes into my "scratch" pile.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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 So I'm not the only one!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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I'm looking at my scratch pile (as you call it) right now.
It's nearly 10 years old, about 18 inches high, and not decreasing in height.
I have no idea what that says about me. I try to cut down on my paper usage.
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I just have my secretary keeps all the notes I need.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Last year the bank gave away a box of pencils to everyone, so many of the young whipper snappers insist on using their laptop I ended up with 10 boxes of pencils. So yes I use paper and pencil (no clicking either).
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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I like drawing out stuff for some of the code I need to write. E.g. working on something that works with timelines, its easier for me to figure things out if I see a picture.
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Hi All,
I have just made a classic office mistake. I lifted my chair up to get it out the way a was met with a sound that can be best described as a worrying clicking sound. That generally means something is moving and the release for it will be hidden. So now I am sitting on a chair that was comfortable and now isn't looking fruitlessly for some online instructions on how to adjust the darn thing.  .
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What bit did you lift it by?
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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The seat, found a You Tube video, adjusted it found also the seat will tip!
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Well there goes glennPatton's productivity for the day.
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wait till the mob opposite/across the room go for lunch and swap it for another.
This internet thing is amazing! Letting people use it: worst idea ever!
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Wont work different chairs! 
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You just need to hope the worrying clicking sound came from the chair, and not your back. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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