i’m trying something new. when i first hit the deck, my ideas are fresh. i’m going to spend 15 minutes before going on to the day’s business to capture those thoughts. whatever they are. let’s see if that works bettr. hmmmm?
my daily schedule
Wednesday, February 8, 2006
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Rutgers’ women beat UConn tonight
Tuesday, February 7, 2006As usual, and since we couldn’t go, not that we’d ever go to CT again, I used this as an oppty to try something new. They assertedly offered streaming video for ten bucks. For ten buck, hey try it. It took my credit card and I was banging away at the setting to make it work. Called for help … no answer … no surprise there. I’m sure I went in at another place that didn’t say any such thing. I was able to catch a radio broadcast. One glitch there. Support called back and said you missed it! Call the number for a refund and hung up. I was going to say why did it take my payment for the show that couldn’t be delivered. Too lazy to block it? Argh. It could have made Frau’s night; instead another tech flub.
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Updated the “big turkey” site
Tuesday, February 7, 2006http://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.
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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.
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