Afte rI rebuilt lug-able, I reinstalled GTalk, the 3/22 download, and back comes my wsod. When I task switch to gtalk, bang, the screen goes white and eventually reboots. So it’s somehtign with gtalk. I reported it. (Lotta good that will do.) As I did last time, I have very low expectations.
GTALK: Abandoned due to white screen of death issues
Friday, March 24, 2006
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An adoptee looking for info
Thursday, March 23, 2006Had an interesting experience today. Out of the blue, this fellow calls me on my cellphone. He found a webpage I did for my fellow high school alums. My thought was that, since we wanted to find the “lost” members of our class, I throw up a webpage with everyone’s name on it. This way if they googled their own name, maybe our page would be findable. Seemed like a good idea. It even found a few. This fellow was lookking for his birth parents. He googled his dad’s name and found my page. It has my phone number on it ti make it easy for the lost to “report in”. He used it to get me to help him. I guess I am a sucker for this stuff so I messaged everyone I had to get info. We had two people with positive contributions, one who misunderstood, and one who asked the question if their were privacy issues. I don’t think there are any and said so. But what do I know. Jury still out if the adoptee will be happy. It was an interesting experience.
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GOFFICE (google’s writely) with two unusual offerings
Wednesday, March 22, 2006No here’s an interesting wrinkle exposed by some one writing about Writely. I tried writely but didn’t see any particualr value.
Here’s one with a wrinkle! Free outbound fax and free usmail of your document. It has to be only for the trial period becasue they’d go broke.
You might want to try it, on the theory, that it might be useful in a pinch AND you can use it as an example of how knowledgeable you are. OR, you might even beable to work it into your USP or the particular UVP you are trying to advance.
FWIW (for what it is worth),
YMMV (your mileage may vary),
FJohn
The Big Turkey
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PERSPECTIVE: back in operation … locally.
Wednesday, March 22, 2006I have this wiki running locally. I even addressed it from my corporate desktop. BUT it barffed when I tried to sandbox from accross the internet. DOn’t have time to play too much but sent out a call to my ace luddite to test it form his end. Nervous about being up without shields. Hmm, maybe the experts are wrong about the risks.
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Couldn’t source my favorite quotes!
Wednesday, March 22, 2006Where did I find?
“When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.” (also heard it as “arrive”)
“Lessons are repeated until the student learns.”
“chop wood, carry water, seek enlightenment, chop wood, carry water”
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“Tear down the Electoral College” or why techies should stick to tech
Tuesday, March 21, 2006http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/5148
Responding to Paul McNamara in NetworkWorld: Tear down the Electoral College
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Popular vote is mob rule. The Electoral College throws a roadblock in their path.
We have gotten into the mess we are in by ignoring the wisdom of some dead old white guys who were pretty smart. They revolted over 1% taxartion and we can’t even calculate the per cent we pay. We’d have a better chance of knowing where an electron is than the exact percentage we pay in taxes. Politicians do a GREAT job of hiding the true cost.
Before you continue the erosion of the Constitution, let’s consider that we are NOT a democracy. We are republic. The foundation of a republic is that minorities have rights! And, we are all minorities at one time or another.
I am immediately opposed to anyone changing the Constitutional process since we have a great track record of screwing things up. Let’s just review some of the more bone-headed ones: Sixteenth Ammendment gave us an income tax. Ninteenth Ammendment women’s vote gave us the Prohibition Ammendment which gave us organized crime. Twenty Second Ammendment that gives us lame duck Presidents.
And we have enough screwballs running around changing stuff even without changing the Constitution. Our money is valueless; backed only by the full faith and credit of something called the “Federal Reserve Bank” — a club of bankers. Our national debt is a joke. Education is a government run dumbing down of our people. Illegals are invading our country. The “war on drugs” is filling our prisons, infringing on our liberty, and defying human nature. Government in healthcare is killing us while bankrupting us. Social Security is a Ponzi scheme.
AND, government at all levels is running amok.
Here you are advocating changing to be MORE democratic?
Please stick to technology. Social engineering is best left to the philosophers and cynics. At least they understand what a dangerous thing a human being is. And when that life form gangs up into “government”, it is like a plague of locust.
Bear in mind that only the government is capable of committing a genocide. It’s a powerful force that needs to be constrained, restricted, and severly limited.
The electoral college is one way to do just that.
IMHO!
Decline on Vista because of new hardware. Open Office is a key tactic.
Monday, March 20, 2006I currently use OOO as a backup to Microsoft Office 2003. I acquired my current MSFT from their company store as a corporate customer. So I didn’t pay full price. I am knowledge executive in technology so my employer has deployed it on my notebook desktop for me to use. Personally, I have been using Microsoft stuff since an employer shifted from wordperfect eons ago. So I have a lot of time “invested” in microsoft stuff. I am not happy. I am probably going to break with the cycle of never ending upgrades with Vista. I am planning to “stay behind”. I am dipping my toes in the current world of linux distributions. (I am fluent in unix and solaris for my work.) It’s going to be painful and ugly. But, I think MSFT has outlived its usefulness. Recently, I had some winrot on my personal laptop. It was agonizing. McAfee wouldn’t install or deinstall and kept mucking up the ip stack. Only an os reinstall eliminated it. And the associated reinstalls were painful. During the winrot episode, Word2003 would open and close but not save a document. Open Office Writer worked like a charm to allow me to complete my ezine. Not without some format breakage, and not without some relearning of common Office functions, (I think there were a few things I never was able to do. But, I worked around the problems.) So my plan is to stay behind on the next upgrade cycle (Msft makkes you buy new intel hardware; intel invents more powerful hardware for msft to design for; we pay and pay and pay). OOO is a key tactic in that strategic decision.
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Anyone want to ask what a Jasper is? Or, yesterday’s recipe for turtle soup?
Sunday, March 19, 2006Overcoming a vast disparity in talent, the Manhattan College Men’s Basketball team demonstrated why the games are played. Maryland helped of course. Starting with their coach publically being force to play the NIT by the legal eagles, and finishing with the Maryland team forgetting their lessons. I was astonished to see them not pound the ball into the center. But, if you go in with a “failure vision”, then all to often it comes true. I thought it was intersting that the Jaspers packed their bags as if they were going to lose. I would have packed as if, assuming, I was going to win. But then, I’m here and they are there. ;-) An amazing job in the face of overwhelming odds.
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I found a potential MC student … maybe
Sunday, March 19, 2006http://bxcutie124.blogspot.com/2006/03/i-got-accepted-into-4-colleges-already.html#comments
Well, you could do yourself a lot of good choosing Manhattan College. Assuming you mean http://www.manhattan.edu and if you don’t why not? I read your “go for two and transfer” strategy. I recall the old adage that “it’s not the depth of the well but the size of the bucket”. MC can help you challenge yourself. It’s all about finding your niche in life. I think that MC has an great record of turning out amazing individuals out of rather ordinary people walking in. Read about our alums at http://www.jasperjottings.com that I edit. It is no “house” propaganda. You can reach me at http://public.2idi.com/=reinkefj if I can be of further assistance. F. John Reinke Manhattan College Class of 1968
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Turkeys need to Google their own names
Sunday, March 19, 2006http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/401069p-339405c.html
A good idea to know what can be found and associated to you.
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