http://home.comcast.net/~v2y2r0n27rhj6y/TURKEY/index.htm
It required me to recognize that I couldn’t make microsoft publisher publish turkey directly to the web. So … … I published to the luggable and filezillaed to the site.
Updated the “big turkey” site
Tuesday, February 7, 2006
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Activities as a “turkey” spurred by a colleague
Tuesday, February 7, 2006When one is no longer sure that you can “keep extracting vlue while retaining some for yourself” in your current instantiation, one begins to prepare for the inevitable.
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An old employee of mine told me that he’s been told to find another job
Tuesday, February 7, 2006Argh. But it brings to mind an old mind map.
http://home.comcast.net/~v2y2r0n27rhj6y/Continued_value_extraction_with_partial_retention.jpg
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BACKUP because recovery is hard without the data!
Monday, February 6, 2006One of the advantages of a home lan COULD be that you can automagically back up all the data on your primary machine to an old machine. In my case, my primary is this dell luggable, not loveable, and my “old” machine is in my garage. A free directory synchronizer like AllWaySync (http://allwaysync.com) or Karen’s Replicator (http://www.karenware.com), both FREE, can sync your primary machine to the secondary.
p.s., Because I am a belt and suspenders guy, I do make a monthly copy of my data on cd, put it on top of my mom’s refridgerator, and I still worry!
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Reproducing a directory structure consistently
Monday, February 6, 2006Following up on my idea of an “annualized” directory structure, I want to have the underlying directory structure built quickly and easily. SO … … going back to my old batch days it’s real easy to create a batch file in the root that does all the md’s (make directory) you need. “md x md y md z” I’m going to use the topcial as lower case and the people ones with the letter z. The the topics will sort to the top and the people to the bottom.
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Organizing the plethora of files that one has.
Monday, February 6, 2006My latest thinking on directory organization is by “year” and then by topic. I reserve the year “0000” for the things that will never change and always be necessary to keep around. So, for example the scan of my drivers license in stored under \000\FJR and so I’ll always be able to find it when I need my DL number for all the dumb forms. It goes along with my concept of scanning everything. I am buried in paper and it’s a way of fighting back.
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A colleague says that they had a problem leaving a comment.
Monday, February 6, 2006Hmmm, I did it and it worked. Probably time to flush the IE cache, cookies, and files and try again. This techonolgy stuff is not like using the telephone. Or, using the phone during the old Bell System days.
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NJ decided that the taxes I paid in 2002 aren’t … … whatever?
Monday, February 6, 2006My accountant is stunned. He doesn’t understand. And, if he don’t what chance do I have. Argh! And people wonder why I am a Libertarian.
Last year’s messes roll over into this year’s organization
Monday, February 6, 2006As with most people, I collect digital flotsum and jetsum. This week’s great idea is consigned to the data dust bin. It would be nice to divide files, no directories of files, into timeless and annual categories. I’m trying to do that after the fact. I have a 2006 directory. Now I’d like to organize all of last year under 2005. Maybe 2007 will be better?
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“gentle” or “passive” networking
Sunday, February 5, 2006Well, thinking about the upcoming reorg, it makes me want to start a gentle sifting or networking. Execunet, (http://www.execunet.com), my favorite “job” site, has 17 Jaspers on it. Maybe I should contact them with my networking profile? I’m thinking about how to approach them. Do they get my jottings or are they on LinkedIn. It’s got to be sensitive.
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cnn article makes a good point
Sunday, February 5, 2006http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/2006/02/01/8367527/index.htm
Remember, your earning power is the single most valuable financial asset you control over your lifetime, more than your house or your investment portfolio. You can’t afford to let it be compromised by … …
… … ANYTHING!
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MP3 surgery
Sunday, February 5, 2006Well time to bite the bullet. My favorite podcasters (http://www.freetalklive.com) have completely lost their technical mind imho and are now producing one fat, but still free, podcast for each three hour show. Now, you may or may not know but to fast forward my rca lyra mp3 player is a pia. Soooo, I have to bite the bullet and figure out how to split their mp3 into fragments. Argh. Cheaply and easily goes without saying. I wonder if that music player software I bought in moment of weakenss can do this. Hmmm.
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“Cousin” Doreen is a “diversity champion”
Sunday, February 5, 2006Sunday 05 February 2006 @ 0900 EST
Dear “Cousin”,
RE: “Cousin” Doreen is a “diversity champion”
Found this snippet. Always happy to read about our “cousins”. I always thought that “diversity” was just plain good business. I don’t know why others don’t see it. If you have a fellow human being who wants to help, let them. Ok, maybe it’s not the way you’d a done it and maybe it’s not as good as you could have done it and maybe it was done with the same style that you’d a done it with, but bottom line it got done and yoou didn’t have to do it. I never have a problem with anyone helping me — man, women, green with yellow stripes, space alient. Bottom line I can use all the help I can get. And, I can’t be to fussy about who gives it to me. As I say, “common sense”. But, it’s nice to see a “cousin” making a positive mark in the ledger.
Nothing particularly new. NJ weather is very mild. Maybe no snow this year? Frau’s doing a little worse. Reorg at work still threatens. Deadly quiet on that front.
I still need ten NEW readers by July First or one active participant to avoid “failure”. Can you help?
Have a good day, and a great week.
“Cousin” John in New Jersey
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http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/1219nebriefs1219.html
Scottsdale/Northeast Valley briefs.
Dec. 19, 2005 12:00 AM
Educator, executive to be honored
SCOTTSDALE – Community Celebrating Diversity will recognize Clif McKenzie and Doreen Reinke as “diversity champions” at the 12th-annual Scottsdale Community Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Dinner Celebration. The event is at 6 p.m. on Jan. 9 in the Chaparral Suites ballroom, 5100 N. Scottsdale Road.
McKenzie and Reinke will be honored for their efforts to promote civil and human rights.
McKenzie, ombudsman and director of exceptional customer experiences for the Scottsdale Unified School District, is a longtime Scottsdale educator who has brought a sense of racial unity to each campus where he has been principal.
Reinke, vice president of operations at Scottsdale Insurance Co., continues to find new ways to unite employees in the pursuit of an environment where all people feel challenged, appreciated, respected and engaged.
For more information on the dinner and awards program, contact Scottsdale’s Office of Diversity and Dialogue at (480) 312-7738. Event reservations are $60 per person and can be made by calling (480) 312-3030.
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The Arizona Republic
Phoenix Headquarters
200 East Van Buren St.
Phoenix, AZ 85004
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a technology rant
Sunday, February 5, 2006i arose this morning form troubled sleep with visions of my writing dancing in my head. so i lept to key board, all ready to write. but first we have daily work to get out the way. my mail, my libertarian week of poddies to dl, check azureus, do reinke ramblings. Then to writing. ARGHHH! I was well underway to getting that all done when my net connect developed a balkiness. no browser could connect. no dns. couldn’t ping yahoo. so, dump the power at the cable modem and get out vzwbbie. power down the laptop to insert the pcmia card (i bought it to i’m VERY careful about it) bring the whole shebang back up. and guess what, yup you guessed it, my cable connect pops back and says ‘where have you been’ ARGH, ARGG! so i have just lost the better part of one of my creative hours for who knows what reason! argh, argh, argh!
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Every Turkeys should have a side
Saturday, February 4, 2006http://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, 2006Could 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, 2006Would 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, 2006I 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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PERSPECTIVE: using it
Friday, February 3, 2006It is a neat tool. I have started to use it for collecting my thoughts and organizing multi-step projects.
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REMINDER have to catch up n my old email
Friday, February 3, 2006bad john.
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Using Perspective the wiki I installed
Friday, February 3, 2006Well, it is exciting. I actually figured out how to logon to my wiki. Create another user. Write a document, but haven’t figured out how to link it or put it anywhere but the sand box. But I’m getting there. So ends today’s 30 minute creativity session.
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SOFTWARE: FREEMIND to get your thinking organized!
Thursday, February 2, 2006
http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
FreeMind is a FREE mind-mapping program. A mind map is a diagram used for linking ideas to a central key idea. It is used to visualize, classify, structure, and generate ideas, as well as an aid in study, problem solving, and in making decisions.
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Medical Insurance stinks
Thursday, February 2, 2006Who decided what your primary carrier is?
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TECHNOLOGY: Perspective … … a desktop wiki
Thursday, February 2, 2006http://www.high-beyond.com/perspective.aspx?action=view&page=perspective.Welcome
I have been fascinated with hypertext since I first played with it in the 70s. The wiki is in my mind the logical follow on to that. Deploying one that is wholy contained on my notebook is just neat. This will allow me to demonstrate it. And, use it. From a technology perspective it was a little ugly. I spent a few hours punding on the keyboard to make it work. But, by following the docs, I did it.
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Gary North writes a history of the sixties
Thursday, February 2, 2006http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north432.html
Dear Professor North,
I hope when I have matured like you, I can codify “wisdom” for others to use.
Born in 47, I grew up too late for the “free love” but not too late for the effects of Vietnam Republic Of. As a young republican, on my way to being a Libertarian, I think you may want to somehow capture the real impact of Vietnam on me and my peers. I think that it fundamentally altered the USA probably as much as the American Revolution, the Civil War, the Great Depression, and WW2. I’m not a philosopher, educator, or a historian. I’m an “injineer”. http://public.2idi.com/=reinkefj I basically earn my daily bread by fixing things. Information Technology and Business Processes. But, fixing things never the less.
So I may not be qualified to opine on this fracture in the late 60’s being the watershed event to “bend” the flow of the American history. But I feel, I sense, that this single thing did more to “break the spirit” of my generation than anything else. From that “breaking” several bad things followed.
Let me cite some evidence from my personal life. I was deferred while I was in College from 64-69. I was a five year engineer – the draft had some effect on keeping me diligently in school – as well as interested in that fifth year to add some credentials. My peers who failed at school were immediately drafted and gone. Several absconded to Canada and the underground. That was traumatic. We lost some of the best and brightest to the Army and the underground. Had we been at peace, there is no doubt in my mind that they would have been productive members of society, contributing, with families, and adding to the synergy. I know that some of them who went underground died in the Drug Culture. I know that all of us were scared for life by the experience. After graduation, I was drafted. Recruiters screwed everyone so why should I be different. My first lesson in government lies. While I didn’t go to Vietnam, I was taken out of AT&T where I missed FOUR YEARS of opportunities.
So we have an entire generation of us “taken out” and metaphorically wasted.
On a social civil society viewpoint, the War – yet another undeclared expansion of government power – launched a splitting of America – racially, between patriotic and unpatriotic, between socialist and conservative, between the old and the new, between the modest and the Hollywood prono, between the workers and the takers, between the workers and the welfare-ists, between those individualists and those that live off the government.
I don’t see a biography of the white irish-german catholics ripped asunder and never to recover in your history proposal. I am not sure that the Fifities were the ideal we see on old TV shows, but I know everything since has NOT been better.
That should be in your history lesson.
Hope this ramble helps define what history should be taught,
John
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