As 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?
Last year’s messes roll over into this year’s organization
Monday, February 6, 2006
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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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