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Wednesday, February 15, 2006
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TECHNOLOGY: Old Software “Serious Creativity”
Wednesday, February 15, 2006Interesting problem. Some old software from the WIN95 days won’t install on XP. I’ve been reinstalling it as I move from machine to machine. It has in the past. Why not now? It is particualarly agravating when I spend my scarce person technology dollars on something and it ages out. I can understand hardware failure, but software? Now I am sure they will sell me a replacement for 75$ but why should I. I bought it. Whatever it was! Last time I got screwed like this was KeeBoo. Oh well live and learn. BTW I sent them an email. Let’s see what happens.
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A dumb little distraction
Wednesday, February 15, 2006http://www.rnmap.com/smack-the-penguin.php
Sometimes you just feel like whacking something!
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What do I hope to get out of PERSPECTIVE?
Monday, February 13, 2006My objectives are to get a running wiki up on my luggable and my worktop.
Both have to be true wikis even though they may not be always online since I’ll be hosting them on notebooks.
I have to also remember that I have all sort of obsolete hardware that might be able to be brought up in support. The problem is that wireless router at home and the firewalls at work.
Assuming that I could get the PERSPECTIVE running “right”, (It works; the problems are mine.) then something might appear to be “do-able”.
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Playing with the PERSPECTIVE wiki
Monday, February 13, 2006Following up my failed test, attempting to have Frenchy in NC access and update the wiki, I figured I try again on the same subnet. Addressing it as http://192.168.1.100 from 101 works. Hmm. On the morrow, I’ll repeat the test at work and see if it works across the dirty and clean networks. If that works or doesn’t work, put the luggable up on the VWBBie and try again. If both work, I’m befuddled. If either works, I’m befuddle. If neither works, then at least it’s consistent results. Arghh!
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Emergency fix on alumni site
Monday, February 13, 2006The index was broken by old pointers to the prior hosting site. Arghh. End of the month I should be able to nuke it. Unless I find more problems.
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An XML format resume for presenting to sites
Monday, February 13, 2006http://execunet.blogspot.com/2006/02/next-big-thing-in-online-r_113958306073025971.html
I have wasted lots of time at “job sites” on the internet. The corporate ones using Brass Ring were the worst. It’s bad enough having to fill the same info over and over. It was like going to job agencies and employers each of whom want there own unique form filled out. Arghhh! It’s all on my resume.
So why can’t we have two new XML standard types: one for resumes and one for job ads. Imagine your RSS reader only flashes you when a job matches your preferences such as geographic comfort zone and at price suitable for your fianancial comfort zone. Then you can open your browser to their site and submit your XML resume. No scanning, no OCR, no laborious forms to fill out. Swish right into “their” system, what ever it is, and regardless of “who” it is.
Then, we’ll just need the final peice of the puzzle. The XML rejection letter with automagic randomly generated (1) our needs have changed; (2) you’re not qualified; (3) you’re overqualified (i.e., too threatening to our incompetent leadership); (4) you’re overqualified (i.e., you make too much money); (5) you’re overqualified (i.e., you’re too smart to work here); (6) you’re overqualified (i.e., you are not our kind); OR (7) [my personal favorite] you’re overqualified (i.e., you are TOO old).
Then, your computer could talk to their computer and visa versa. And we can all go to Aruba.
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God made men and women; Sam Colt made ’em equal!
Monday, February 13, 2006http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/01/08/BAGPDGKAG41.DTL&hw=joan%2Bryan&sn=003&sc=242
A woman, a batterer and a gun
Joan Ryan
Sunday, January 8, 2006
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Rebecca took out a life insurance policy on herself four years ago. She made her daughter the beneficiary. She was 51.
She believed that her husband was going to kill her. It was just a matter of time. She believes it still, even though she left him in 2001 and went underground through the California Confidential Address Program. She uses a phony address in Sacramento provided by the program (and is not using her real name for this column) to remain hidden.
Last summer, there were signs he had found her.
So Rebecca started carrying a gun inside a pouch in her purse.
What happened next is a sobering reminder of how the legal system is still struggling to understand the complex and vulnerable lives of battered women.
Rebecca had owned the gun since escaping from her husband. She bought it after the required 10-day waiting period and registered it in her name. She knew the police couldn’t always be around to protect her. A gun leveled the playing field against a man bigger and stronger than she was. Maybe it would save her from becoming one of the 1,300 people killed in the United States each year in domestic violence attacks.
One evening last August, Rebecca was making the long drive home from Mill Valley, where she had to drop off some papers for a client. She stopped at an Albertsons supermarket in Half Moon Bay. She paid for her groceries, picked up the shopping bag and her wallet but left her purse at the end of the checkout counter.
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More important, the conviction leaves Rebecca more vulnerable than ever to her abusive husband. For one, the district attorney’s office mistakenly included her actual street address on all its documents, which are public record. The office was scrambling on Friday to delete the information.
And two, she now has no protection. (I wonder whether San Francisco voters considered domestic violence situations when they voted in November to ban all handguns and what consequences women like Rebecca might pay.)
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Rebecca knows she made a big mistake in leaving her purse with a loaded gun at a public place. Her lapse was a potentially dangerous one; it should not be minimized. But how do we balance her mistake against the danger she faces every day from a violent man who left her crushed and fearful, whose beatings and threats drove her into hiding?
The law against carrying concealed guns makes good sense. But so many women every year are killed by their abusive boyfriends and husbands. Restraining orders, as we know, can’t stop them. The police often can’t stop them. I don’t know what the solution is. But something’s wrong when, in trying to keep herself alive, the terrorized woman becomes the criminal.
E-mail Joan Ryan at joanryan@sfchronicle.com.
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As you can gather, I don’t agree with just about anything in this article. BUT most especially the writer’s conclusion, “The law against carrying concealed guns makes good sense.” Aside from the fact that it abridges everyone’s second amendment rights. The dead old white guys recognized that it’s a dangerous world out there. It’s probably more dangerous now. Sam Colt made men and women equal. Aren’t we learning the lesson that criminals don’t obey laws. Make all the laws you want. It doesn’t’ stop squat. If the gummamint can’t keep drugs, weapons, and guns out of its own prisons, then how do you expect it to protect you? Don’t you see the protection you get from concealed carry even if you don’t carry? The criminals now have a target rich environment of unarmed people. They can attack the weakest and everyone else just is weaponless to stop them. If even just few of the weak are packing, then it becomes a guessing game. Hmm, I try to mug the wrong old lady and I wind up dead! Bad choice. If we keep eliminating criminals like that, then pretty soon we will either be out of criminals or they will have to take up a new line of work. Either way, I trust women to make good decisions. And, if by some chance they make a bad one, (i.e., some thug scares them), then I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt. There are two mottos in the gun community: (1) shoot, shovel, and shut up; and (2) better judged by 12 than buried by 6. Besides as Heinlein taught us “an armed society is a polite society”. It’s still a dangerous world out there between criminals and government. But then I repeat myself.
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“Cousin” Mandy does creative services for a newspaper.
Sunday, February 12, 2006http://www.michigansthumb.com/site/news.asp?brd=2292&pag=460&dept_id=472763
Always happy to read about our “cousins”. Would like to know more, see a pic, and recruit her. People don’t understand, (to use a Heinlein scifi term … “grok”) the web.
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Bono, Third World debt releif, and am I glad about it? No that was some of my taxes wasted!
Sunday, February 12, 2006> Bono thru political action and $40 billion worth of debt gets canceled to 18 African nations.
> … … doesn’t that make you glad?
>>>>It may not be as immense as saving Africa from debt and AIDS, it may be no more than saving one small child or reengineering one vital process, but it will matter just as much in the end. And doesn’t that make you glad?http://www.acton.org/publicat/books/transformwelfare/olasky.html It has to be rooted in the concept that “give a fish, feed a day. teach to fish, feed for lifetime.” What we do is guaranteed to keep our fellow humans in poverty, virtual slavery, and misery for their short lives.
Am I happy? Nah, it just looks like more of today’s liberal (as opposed to the classical liberalism of freedom and liberty) feel good, self aggrandizing, give away what isn’t mine, socialist – communist, Barbara Streisand. Let’s talk about real solutions that set people free. That’s what I like to see in Provisions.
Sorry to be a gloomy Gus. But, a decade from now, we will still be talking about third world poverty and debt relief, and why the cradle of civilization can’t feed itself.
IMHO
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