Every Turkeys should have a side

Saturday, February 4, 2006

http://goalsuccess.typepad.com/goaltips/2006/01/diversify_your_.html

This fellow makes the exact point that I have been telling anyone who will listen. I worked with a fellow who was IT fellow who did wood working as a hobby on the side. When we were downsized, he just took on extra work in his “hobby” and never looked back. Others like me flailed around a little before landing. The model for sucess is to have a skill and an education and remember the only paycheck you are sure of is the one you just cashed. imho

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Using different email addresses … …

Saturday, February 4, 2006

… … to stop phishing, to track results, and to authenticate correspondents.

I was moved to write to a national technology figure about phishing. She was recommending a tool to authenticate websites and prevent phishing. I think I came up with a way to handle it awhile ago. Zero cost , of course. And easy to implement. Here’s my note, which I then put on a job search site I like.

WRT: Phishing

A while ago, before Yahoo came up with Address Guard, before GMAIL made extra email addresses commonplace, I focused on the idea of using different email addresses for different purposes. One specific email address for financial traffic, another for orders, and others for topical use. Thus when phishes came in on ANY of the non-financial email, they were so obvious there was no doubt.

Now with Address Guard, a yahoo subscriber can assign each correspondent their “own” email address. For free, a GMAIL user can accomplish the same thing with either multiple free gmail accounts or that new plus feature. So for a user at any level to be phished now days is kind of hard to believe.

In fact, it is so easy to assign different email address to different correspondents, that I have been doing it for other purposes. When you throw in the ability to manage email traffic by rules in most email packages, it really serves to “authenticate” email traffic is “good” stuff.

It even helps with plain old spam. For example, if some things comes in on a non-assigned email address, it stands a high probability of being spam.

Until we get to ipv6 and absolutely authentic email verification, this can serve to minimize the risk of being fooled.

 

 

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RANT: “The homeless”

Saturday, February 4, 2006

Could it be possible but by the government assuming the role of “charity” that they have created a problem?

First, government has increased its size at the expense of individual charity, the family, the Churches, the fraternal organizations, and a civil society in general. Letting government grow is bad. Putting the “post office” in charge of helping human being with serious needs and problems is absurd.

Second, the Acton Institute hosts a page on “effective compassion” http://www.acton.org/publicat/books/transformwelfare/olasky.html “Effective Compassion: Seven Principles from a Century Ago” by Marvin Olasky where he convinced me that this type of government program is a disaster.

Third, the government takes by force of arms my taxes for all sorts of drivel. If that wasn’t wrong enough, in and of itself, it deprives me of the funds that I could use to fund what I judge to be effective compassion for the less fortunate. For more than a decade, I have made modest monthly contributions to HomeFrontNJ http://www.homefrontnj.org/ because I know the lady who runs it. This is one woman who is “thriftier” with a buck than Frau Reinke considering my annual technology budget. I know how she litterally battles the Trenton social establishment to free these poor souls. So if my taxes went down 10% then I could and probably would contribute more. My taxes keep going up!

AND, it displaces the organizations who could be helping. By making government bigger, it forces the Churches to the sidelines. It absorbs the money in tazes that people would have contributed to churches. It’s a viscious cycle. Remember that dollars into washington, trenton, newbrunswick, or southbrunswick seats of government come out the other side as pennies worth of “services”! My particular favorite is when we pay taxes to washington, washington gives grants to trenton, trenton gives grants to newbrunswick, newbrunswick gives grants to southbrunswick, and southbrunswick repaves my street! I’d have been better off burning my money in a bonfire on the lawn!

Now you knwo why I procrastinate. It deprives the tax collector or more to steal!

 

 

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JOTTINGS: I went out of my way to help. Pushed aside my desire to rant.

Saturday, February 4, 2006

Would you consider posting this volunteer opportunity on Jasper Jottings?

Many thanks,

Rosemarie Coppola-Baldwin, ’96

Assistant General Counsel for Litigation and External Affairs NYC Department of Homeless Services

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On February 27, 2006, the Department of Homeless Services will conduct the Homeless Outreach Population Estimate (HOPE 2006). Teams of volunteers will canvass streets, parks, and subways to count the number of people living on city streets. This important information will be used to help homeless people leave the streets for a better life. You can be a part of the solution!

If you are interested in volunteering for this important event, please review the following information or go to www.nyc.gov\dhs for registration material.WHO

Anyone who shares our commitment to helping the homeless of New York City is encouraged to volunteer. We will provide you with all the training you will need on the night of the survey and every team will be led by an experienced team leader.

If you have social service experience or have participated in HOPE before and are interested in being a team leader, please indicate your experience on the registration form.

WHAT

Each team of 4 – 5 volunteers will be led by an experienced social service provider. Teams will be assigned to a small study area and will be responsible for determining how many homeless individuals are in that area and collecting visible demographic information. Transportation to a shelter will be available for any street homeless individual interested in receiving services.

WHEN

Volunteers will meet at 10:30PM on Monday, February 27. After a brief training and orientation, volunteer teams will disperse throughout the City to count the number of individuals living on the street and in public places from midnight until 4 AM.

HOPE will only be re-scheduled in the event of extreme winter weather. HOPE will not be cancelled for rain or light snow. The extreme weather date is Monday, March 6. In the event of extreme weather, registered volunteers are advised to check the DHS website or call 1-800-994-6494 on the day of the event to check for cancellation.

WHERE

Volunteers will report to training sites located throughout each borough.

Prior to the event, DHS staff will contact you with your meeting location.

Whenever possible, we will place you in the neighborhood of your choice.

For additional information, e-mail hope@dhs.nyc.gov.

 

 

 

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Overcoming procrastination

Saturday, February 4, 2006

I know people who know me wouldn’t beleive it but I am a procrastinator at heart. I would rather waste away my time on this earth with mindless quadrant four activites than lift my heavy load. So, to attempt to overcome this character flaw, I’ll waste my time logging what I do. At least this time-wasting activity might inspire others to get a life. Or if they have one to get abck to it. Why are you reading my whining unless you have to.

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