In this case, I was playing with GNBK doing some alumni research. (Sweet) And then I decided to do some networking (turkey) work. I decided that GNBK would be useful there as well. But, I want to keep the two well separate. SO I created a GMail account for the purpose. THEN when I tried to use it. GBNK reported that the "internet was unreachable". I don't think so. So I went and signed out from GMail and everything works fine. Guess there not prepared for the multiple gmail id situations. BUT, it should give a wrong error message.
I can break anything. Just give me time! In this case, Google Notebook.
Sunday, May 21, 2006
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Posted by reinkefj
Are you sick of filling out web registration forms and remembering a mountain of passwords?
Sunday, May 21, 2006***Begin Quote***
Are you sick of filling out web registration forms and remembering a mountain of passwords?
Me too! I must have filled out hundreds of web forms in my lifetime, each asking for pretty much the same information. And usually these websites don't even really *need* any personal information, they just require a unique identification for a person, and a way to prove that the person controls that identity. At their core, that is what all those registration and login forms and verification emails boil down to. I started Videntity.org as a way to avoid all this hassle.
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Yup.
I'll try anything and everything.
So I took out an identity http://reinkefj.videntity.org/ and then went for a spin at Live Journal.
Appears to work.
Now if it was "accepted" everywhere, it's would be useful.
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Make a rule. Go ahead I dare you. Now if these guys would apply it to the IRS!
Sunday, May 21, 2006http://www.start.com.my/blog/maximizing-your-roi-at-pizza-hut/
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Interesting story on how a group of Taiwanese students got together and circumvented the "One salad" rule at pizza hut.
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The pizza at Pizza Hut ain't bad but the universally bad service means it is low on the list. I haven't been there in eons and never heard of the one trip rule.
These fellows should show us how to do it to the IRS!
The casinos in Vegas and AC better hope that this doens't become popular with the Senior Citizen circuit. While not as good as this, they can do a fair imitation of it. It looks like their last meal or that the food was gonna run out.
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Posted by reinkefj
Arghh another strange failure
Sunday, May 21, 2006This morning at 0830 21MAY06, I took up luggable to find it a mess. Nothing that a reboot wouldn't cure, but investigation and restart took 30 minutes of my life thatI'll never get back and have nothing to show for it. I wish I'd have jotted my findings as I found them. But here's what remember.
(1) RSSBANDIT was offline. YIM75 was offline and nothing would bring it back. Outlook was apparently OK. IE6 was "not responding". Every keystroke or mouse click took a long time to respond.
(2) Dyndns, MsnMsg, and Syncura were rproting OK.
(3) Google web accelerator was disconnected. (It does that a lot?)
(4) Outlook has a inbound email message at 647
I began killing things and eventually got to where I could restart.
Hmm?
(A) This was different that when the WAP stop working.
(B) Google Web Accelerator is suspect.
(C) ISP can't be rulled out.
(D) IE6 running OWA to work was in the mix.
Argh squared!
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Posted by reinkefj
Iran inching closer to genocide.
Saturday, May 20, 2006http://newsbusters.org/node/5436
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A number of Canadian news websites are reporting that the Iranian parliament passed a law this week requiring non-Muslims in the country to wear certain insignia identifying them as such (hat tip to Drudge). As reported by Canada’s National Post: “Human rights groups are raising alarms over a new law passed by the Iranian parliament that would require the country's Jews and Christians to wear coloured badges to identify them and other religious minorities as non-Muslims.” The article continued: “‘This is reminiscent of the Holocaust,’ said Rabbi Marvin Hier, the dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles. ‘Iran is moving closer and closer to the ideology of the Nazis.’"
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The nut in charge of Iran already denied the Holocaust . Anytime government starts to "identify" its people you have to think GENOCIDE! If one was in Iran, near Iran, or even know an Iranian, then you have to be concerned. I KNEW an elderly Jewish lawyer who escaped Germany when he saw the trend. He was unable to convince his best friends, his family elders, or his friends in his community. They were all wiped out. Some of his friends were Catholic, Christian, Agnostics, or Anything. When the genocide begins, it doesn't matter what you are. You're grist for the mill. Only government can kill in numbers that are worse than a natural disaster. Pop over to http://www.jpfo.org/faq.htm#faq14 and read Paul Harvey's list of atrocities. I'd expect Iran to be next on the list.
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Posted by reinkefj
Google’s Notebook has been running when I had some lockups. Beware?
Saturday, May 20, 2006When using GNotebook, I have had Internet Explorer 6.0.2900.2180.sp2 go nuts TWICE. It, on its own, spawned a bunch of extra windows. I assume it kept going until it ran out of whatever. Now I have never seen IE6 do that before. I don't know what causd it. I've used without it happening. And, I've never seen that behavior with Firefox1503. So be advise!
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SPAM seems to be picking up! What to do?
Saturday, May 20, 2006In my unscientific study of email trends, I am taking more spam on my non-hidden short "human being readable" email addresses. Sigh, we know who controls the inet.
The hidden and random sting ones seem to be pretty immune. The hidden ones are never exposed to any one but me; no significant risk there. The random string ones are the ones where the address portion is just a long random string. And they seem immune; guess no spammer wants to chase them.
I have lot's of dedicated email addresses for lots of different purposes and have also “lost” a lot of addresses to spammers.
In the losing, I discovered "alpha spammers". They use alpha progression to eventually “discover” every address. I wised up to it when some dumb spammer had “reinke @att.net, reinkea@, reinkez@ reinkeaa@, …” in the To field. They eventualy discovered every one of my @att.net addresses since they all looked like reinke xxxxx @ att.net! So, I have adopted the long random strings as the “user” part. Also since no one invests any time in the “name”, I can change it when needed (i.e., if it starts to be spammed).
Since 99% of the use of an email address is to be hit by “reply”, no one cares. AND I have many ways for people to get back in touch, like http://public.2idi.com/=reinkefj, so it seems to work for me.
I'm going to have to abandon more of my non-hidden short "human being readable" email addresses. Sigh. I'm probably going to have to look into more of the alternatives.
My web-based email web form at http://public.2idi.com/=reinkefj has been very immune to spam. Who knows how long that will last.
Some of the various providers have some interesting features like only accepting email from sources in your address book. I'm going to look into them.
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Only a old exGI could call the National Guard to the border what it is “political theater”!
Saturday, May 20, 2006http://www.lewrockwell.com/reese/reese281.html
Guarding the Border
by Charley Reese
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Using the National Guard for players in this political theater shows you that the president never thinks a moment about the plight of regular Americans. Young men and women join the National Guard willing to serve their country in an emergency. Our leaky borders are not an emergency. They've been leaking for the past decade. For six years, Bush has ignored this problem. The only emergency is the collapse of Bush's popularity and the Republican Party's fear that it might lose control of Congress this fall.
*** AND ***
But overseas personnel are just a drop in the bucket from which the president can draw his 6,000 men for the border. Excluding the National Guard and Reserves, he has 1.4 million full-time active-duty military personnel, and all of them not in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are doing housekeeping chores and running training missions at home and abroad. That's what armies do in peacetime.
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Only a vet understands how the politicians abuse, overuse, misuse, and turn our military into props. That's on both sides of the duopoly — R and D — D or R — Blue or Red — Red or Blue. There's no difference! Bad polls? Rush the guard to the borders. Impeachment? Bomb an asprin factory. Everytime a Washington president needs to distract, disrupt, or mislead, they use the military to distract us.
BRING ALL THE TROOPS HOME NOW! FROM EVERYWHERE! NO DELAYS! NO EXCUSES!
Everone is on their own. We're not the world's policemen. We have our own problems.
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Posted by reinkefj
Americans today should free “its children” by separating education and state!
Saturday, May 20, 2006http://www.lewrockwell.com/hornberger/hornberger86.html
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What is amazing is that after so many years of government involvement in education, with all its dismal results, so few people ask basic and fundamental questions about the education of their children, such as:
- Why shouldn’t families have the same sovereign and independent control over the education of their children as they have over religious matters?
- Given that the free market produces the best of everything and socialism produces the worst of everything, why are people willing to submit their children to a second-rate product in an area as important as education?
- Why should providing education to people be considered a legitimate function of government?
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It's all about socialism. Centralized state planning has put us in the mess we are in. The skoolz resemble the state's prisions. Money is wasted; sometimes it's lost, stolen, or misappropriated. Results are a joke.
Here in the People's Republik of New Jersey, we have litany of problems. Here's a few of my personal favorites:
- Schools are "financed" by property taxes. Regardless, if one has any children, everyone is "assessed" to pay for the gummamint reeducation camps. Too bad if you're a senior living in the same house for 70 years and now on a fixed income, time for you to move to a different state. Too bad if you have multiple properties, you're too rich.
- Schools are run by the gummamint, teaching the gummamint religion (i.e., Conserve Mother Earth like good little druids and honor the all wise State from whom all benefits flow), and dumbing down the population. I particularly like how the brag on their "achievements" (i.e., number of students going to college) but never mention their failures (i.e., GEDs) and figure out ways to "cook the books". Of course, this is all done for MY benefit (i.e., Good schools mean that people will want to move here and buy your house at a big profit. Ignoring the fact that I have to live somewhere!) by "selfless public servants". Silly me!
- There is a Political – Educrat – Servicing conspiracy at work as a positive feedback loop. Politicians "save the children" with programs. The Board of Education, School Administrators, Teachers, and Unions all campaign for more money. Custodians, Builders, Service Providers all have lucrative contracts. The School Administrators, Teachers, Unions, Custodians, Builders, and Service Providers contribute to the Politicians with money, labor, and "needs". Politicians raise taxed to "save the children" with new programs. And on and on.
So we have to break the cycle.
I don't pay to feed, clothe, or entertain your children. Why should I pay to "educate" them?
And, if I do have to pay, which I don't think is fair, why do I have to do it with government?
Could it be that you could not "convince" me to pay for it without the force of government to make me.
Remember the hallmark of a bad idea is that you can't convince people to do it voluntarily.
(I think somebody smart said that, but I don't know who. Do you?)
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Posted by reinkefj
Imagine how useful it would be to have a wiki. Now how do you sell it to Leadership?
Friday, May 19, 2006http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/05/12/1539231&from=rss
Enterprise Applications
Putting MediaWiki to use in an organization
Friday May 19, 2006 (05:01 PM GMT)
By: Mark Alexander Bain
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Imagine how useful it would be to have an online knowledge base that can easily be updated created by key people within your organization. That's the promise of a wiki — a Web application that "allows users to easily add, remove, or otherwise edit all content, very quickly and easily," as Wikipedia, perhaps the best-known wiki, puts it. Why not bring the benefits of a wiki to your organization?
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Imagine all you want! Leadership doesn't understand it. You can talk until you are blue in the face. They can't understand it. And, you can't make them. Talk's cheap. And, that Leadership, who you are trying to sell, has been sold and bought the Brooklyn Bridge so many times they don't even listen anymore.
Thus, you can't get it in the door!
I knew what the benefits were from using wikopedia and the wiki at http://wikiw.freetalklive.com. But, until you have your "own" demo, you don't KNOW what it could do for your organization.
I suggest throwing it up on a laptop for demonstration purposes.
Some caveats. Any relatively modern virgin windowsXP from Dell should be good enough. I say virgin because your companies deploys as a standard image may interfere with your deployment. I say virgin also because I had played with Perspective prior to attempting MediaWiki and it needed a wipe to get it to work. But for one kilo dollar of hardware, zero software dollars, and at most 4 hours of clock time, and you can have your demo.
In my case, I use my Verizon Wireless Broad Band card and DynDns as well to make an internet accessible demo. I have actually supported five users (admittedly slowly) in simultaneous updating pages.
A demo will open the eyes of most Luddite of Leaders. A demo they get. They see it. They touch it. And, they "know" it's not that bridge. Or that they are not commissioning a trek into the unending budgetary swamp. They can make the leap from small demo to big demo.
After all to them it just feels like a funny website. But they'll "get it" when they see it.
That's what I did. It makes it visceral, easy to see, and touchable!
Now you are not going to garner the huge knowledge gains from a corporate wiki by running a demo. The value is having the enterprise version out, available, and open for use.
But you have to get to that point. This is how to do it.
Heck, if you're in a pickle, gimme a yell and I'll rent you my laptop for a day. ;-)
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Posted by reinkefj
Google’s Notebook is a winner imho when I’m doing web research
Friday, May 19, 2006I "prospect" for my fellow alums for a number of different purposes. What started as doing an alumni ezine morph into agreat job networking tool. Google's Notebook makes the process even easier.
FOr example.
I'm mining Ziggs. I have Zigg search for "manhattan college". It pops ten or so links per page for pages and page. Arghh. It was too hard to go line by line and not lose one's place. I do this when time permits.
Now, with GNoteBook, I bring up the page with the links. Open each link in a new window. Highlight what I want name and email. Tap on the note icon and it's capture. Pretty swift.
You need a Google email to use GNoteBook. If you need and invite, yell.
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Posted by reinkefj
llegals granted Social Security?
Friday, May 19, 2006http://www.washtimes.com/national/20060518-114132-2456r.htm
llegals granted Social Security
By Charles Hurt
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
May 19, 2006
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The Senate voted yesterday to allow illegal aliens to collect Social Security benefits based on past illegal employment — even if the job was obtained through forged or stolen documents.
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Another socialist idea bites the dust. Think "Social Security Insurance", Medicare, and its ilk are broke now. Wait until everybody starts to draw.
Seems to me like we need to end the Ponzi scheme NOW!
Those already collecting continue paid by taxes. Those not yet collecting get a Treasury "Recognition Bond" dated for when they will retire. Those that are not yet in the system are on their own.
José Piñera did it in Chile.
http://www.socialsecurity.org/pubs/articles/12-13-04.html
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A defined-benefit system is not only hostage to demographic trends, it also has a fatal flaw: it destroys the link between individual contributions and benefits, or, in other words, between personal effort and reward.
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You think that is harsh? Just remember that when the Titanic went down more First Class Men were saved than Third Class children. It's a tough world out there. Survival of the fitest. We make things harder on ourselves than it has to be when we delude ourselves into thinking Mommy Government will take care of us or Father State will protect us. Want to be secure in your old age? Save your own gold coins. What protection? Protect yourself and your neighbors.
Anything else is delusional!
We need to get out from under the Socialist Ponzi scheme deliberately misnamed "Social Security Insurance" before it sinks us as a people.
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When running multiple platforms, use dedicated email to ensure consistency.
Friday, May 19, 2006I use lots of platforms — LUGGABLE, OLDLAP, DSKTOP, WORKTOP, SPOUSETOP, ANCHOR, JOKE, BROKETOP, and OFFAL. Each of those has, or had, a specific purpose. When I wonder how I keep, kept, or am keeping everything straight, I always come back to "email". Each machine has it's "own" email address. "Directives" can be sent from a "master" email to these secret email addresses and form a todo list when appropriate. It should be possible to form up a private Google or Yahoo group to keep it all flowing nicely. Interesting concept? It works for me. When all you have is a hammer, then every problem is a nail. Pity what happens to a screw!
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Posted by reinkefj
Police cited the woman for hunting without a license … … in her house!
Thursday, May 18, 2006http://www.lp.org/yourturn/archives/000306.shtml
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Defending Yourself Against Alligators
Here's an excerpt from a Washington Post story that will make you think twice about moving to Florida:
"Yesterday…an alligator walked through the doggy door of a woman's house in Bradenton and went for her golden retriever. The woman grabbed a shotgun and blazed away. The alligator escaped with a flesh wound. The neighbors heard shots and called police, who promptly cited the woman for hunting without a license."
How can the police cite the woman for hunting without a license? Who ever heard of hunting in your own house? Unbelievable.
Posted by Matthew Dailey at May 18, 2006 12:41 PM
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Absolutely unbelievable!
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Posted by reinkefj
If gaming companies purchased I-15, it’s likely they wouldn’t even charge a toll!
Thursday, May 18, 2006http://www.lewrockwell.com/french/french42.html
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If MGM Mirage can spend $7 billion on CityCenter and Boyd can spend $4 billion on Echelon, these two could finance the purchase and widening of I-15 in a heartbeat. The cost of that 316-mile stretch in Texas is $6 billion. LA to Vegas is 275 miles.
If a consortium of gaming companies purchased I-15, it’s likely they wouldn’t even charge a toll, especially for their customers, potential customers or vendors.
Does the idea sound crazy? Remember, the state of California is up to its neck in debt. If Gary Loveman, Terry Lanni and some other strip honchos would get together and dangle a few billion in front of Arnold, that never-gonna-happen idea for a bullet train can be mothballed once and for all, and a few more ribbons of blacktop will start materializing. And instead of burning up gas stranded in traffic, those Californians will be dropping money in slot machines like they want to be.
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I agree about that toll. But not about the train. They'd probably do both. They're interested in their money arriving safely. A train might be faster and safer and a more "novel" ride. They ran an airline until it became too much of a hassle.
Trump, when he felt the disastrous Coleman skating rink refurb in NYC's Central Park was detracting from his premiere property, he got the job done in a tenth of the cost in a fraction of the time by a horde of contractors who want to be in his good graces and out of his notorious wrath. I believe he told a balky plumber that if a task was NOT done by the time he came down to turn the faucet that the plumber wouldn't work in NY again. It was done in record time!
I'd bet the job would be done ahead of time, under budget, with zero union trouble, and at a fraction of the "gummamint" cost.
To make people want to come, they'd probably serve drinks on the highway at the rest stops. :-)
All I know is it would be something to see.
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ElephantDrive, yet another xdrive competitor, can you say “commodity pricing”
Thursday, May 18, 2006http://www.elephantdrive.com/
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How much does it cost?
ElephantDrive is free during the beta period, but ultimately will be offered as a paid service. The current plan is to launch the paid service in June 2006, with standard accounts tentatively priced at $9.95/month for 10 GB of storage, decreasing for larger accounts. We are offering the service free during the beta period not in effort to trick users, but because your feedback is extremely valuable to us and will help us create the best possible product.
There will always be free accounts of limited size available, and we will never “hold your data hostage” if you decide not to continue with ElephantDrive after it moves to a paid service. In the event you decide that ElephantDrive is not for you because of pricing (or for any other reason for that matter), we will hold you data for at least 30 days while you move it to an alternative location and then remove it from our system for your privacy and protection.
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Another offer of free web space? Wow an embarrassment of riches. What data shall I put here? Obviously nothing too valuable or irreplaceable. I've actually started "pairing" free services. Put data store X on vendor A and B. Put data store Y on vendor C and D. Two of them won't go belly up at the same time. Will they? And it's just backup data.
Hmmmm?
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Posted by reinkefj
Technology presents “a you won’t believe your eyes”.
Thursday, May 18, 2006http://www.patmedia.net/marklevinson/cool/cool_illusion.html
from The LangaList Standard Edition 2006-05-18
A Free Email Newsletter from Fred Langa
That Helps You Get More From Your Hardware,
Software, and Time Online
***Begin Quote***
Hello, Fred! Just thought I'd send the link below to you for the Just for Grins section of the newsletter. It's an example of just how most of our brains work. We start out seeing one thing but, upon further inspection, we wind up seeing another. The page is suitable for all ages in all countries of the world. —Bob de Violini
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Sigh, now we can't depend upon what we see because of … evolution?
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Posted by reinkefj
Hey Gov C wanna save some gas?
Thursday, May 18, 200618 may 06 @ 727 am 295 s milepost 60 TD10471 wizzed by >75 mphs.
18 may 06 @ 731am 295 s milepost 55 SG20608 passed me at 65 but at least he used his signals and got out of the left lane.
Imagine mere peasants thinking that the glorious state workers of the People's Repoublic of New Jersey should be held to the same rules that they make for the serfs and peons! How rude. Let them each cake and drive on the portions of the road we are not using.
Remember the French Revolution? It just takes one spark to set off the blaze.
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Posted by reinkefj
What to do if all the “good” domain names are gone?
Thursday, May 18, 2006An irate inet fellow was grousing about the "good" names are gone and "they" want 100k$s (new dimension of money — hundreds of kilo dollars) for them. What is one to do?
Being an injineer, trained to solve other people's problems at the drop of a hat, I came up with a question and at least one alternative.
Question: What makes a domain name "good"? Short, memorable. Maybe?
I understand well the game that is being played on us.
BUT having said that you need to be in the “game”.
I have two thoughts.
(1) Go offshore. I took Reinke dot cc because it was my last name and available. The "CC" in dot-cc refers to a tiny island chain in the Indian Ocean. It's the Cocos Islands, a 5.4-square-mile territory of Australia, population 650. Maybe I'll go visit someday? So QWERTY in Western Samoa is available. Just checked. You could be G @ QWERTY dot Web Site. Or there is .nz for New Zealand, .kz for Kazakstan. Mississippippians can go to .ms for Montserrati. Or Marylanders to .md for Moldova. There's lots of TLDs out there.
OR
(2) Go long. Buck the trend. Become G at QWERTY PLUMBING CONTRACTOR dot com which is also available.
I’m not so sure that the common wisdom is correct on short domain names. Yes, if you’re advertising on TV and you want someone to remember your phone number or website then you have to be as memorable as possible. In your case, I don’t think that applies.
Just my thoughts for what it is worth.
Remember you’re reading a fellow who uses <14 character random string> @ ISP dot net.
Will you every remember and type that? No. (Hell NO! but you could in a pinch, if you really really wanted to?)
But it’s very usable because you either reply or fire off a mailto weblink.
So does dot com or short really matter?
My answer is no.
Your Mileage May Vary.
Now let me see if I can beat you to those names and sell ‘em to you for a big profit. Was that QWERTY or YTREWQ? Dot CC or WS or TV or RADIO.
(You get the idea. Beat'em at their own game.)
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Posted by reinkefj
Why is everyone now forcing password changes?
Thursday, May 18, 2006Latest is verizon wireless. With a minimum of 8; max 20. No previous. Why are they "helping" me? Think I'm too stupid to manage my own life or did they lose them all?
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Posted by reinkefj
The need for a “good” email address!
Thursday, May 18, 2006Permit me to offer some unsolicited advice?
I'd like to share something I wrote a while ago. I think it is even more true now. And easier to implement.
People sometime judge you by your email address.
I see that you have changed from Yahoo to Hotmail. IMHO I don’t think that’s a good change. People want to do business with people they can trust. Hotmail is associated with kids. Free services don’t engender confidence.For example, which would you trust more ReinkeFJ AT reinke DOT cc or ReinkeFJ AT hotmail dot com or supernerd @ gmail dot com?
I have two hosting companies I use at a very modest cost that I can recommend. If you’re interested?
Jasper Jottings is hosted by http://www.1and1.com/?k_id=9113251 and YAG is hosted by http://www.aplus.net/ (AP2297627204). I prefer 1and1 but either is good. And cheap. You can lock in a good deal for between 120 to 240 per YEAR! I think that is a minimal investment for a professional image.
FWIW
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04/30/04
<snip>
You should learn form the mistakes of others. You are not obligated to make EVERY mistake yourself into order to acquire wisdom.
IMHO the gold standard solution is to attach it to your own website with a hosting company. For example, me@mydomain dot com. When you buy your domain name mydomain dot com with a hosting company, they usually throw in email addresses with the deal. At least the good ones do. You MUST choose a good domain name for job search purposes. Use your name if you can get it. Mine was not available. Who ever heard of the Reinke Pivot Irrigator Company? But I did get reinke dot cc. But that is another story.
The silver standard is to buy your own email separately from a well-known financially sound company like Yahoo. AOL make you look like a kid. The bronze solution is to purchase or use a free redirector. Bigfoot has a pay service. For a while when email wasn't common and anyone would ask about the funny name, I used the lock in story in interviews to advance my value proposition. ("I minimize lockins personally and can do it for you"). Alumni associations and groups like IEEE all have free redirectors for their memberships. Anything is better than allowing an ISP to lock you into to "your" email address.
The bronze standard is use an ISP based account.
The lead standard is to use a free service like HotMail, or such.
<snip>
Your mileage can, and will, vary.
Good Luck,
fjohn
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Posted by reinkefj
Yahoo Phone: It had a hard start this morning!
Thursday, May 18, 2006It took three cycles this morning before I could get YIM to open a phone line this am. That's not good. To compete with a land line, it has to be seven 9's reliable AND cheap. Just cheap doesn't cut it.
Hmm?
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Posted by reinkefj
Today’s jigsaw puzzle the Statue of Liberty with NYC skyline minus the WTC. Sensitive or Insensitive? I’d say “in”.
Thursday, May 18, 2006http://games.myway.com/index.html
Today's jigsaw puzzle the Statue of Liberty with NYC skyline minus the WTC. Sensitive or Insensitive? I'd say "in".
But then, I'm the guy who says we should have a private fund raising drive to rebuild it just a little taller than it was. When a bully knocks you down, you don't roll over and let him kick you.
As an L, I hate the gummamint enslaving us. I'd have said sell the WTC towers because why is a quasi government agency running real estate in the hotest market in the world?
But, when someone kicks over my stuff, the gloves come off.
It's one thing if one of our own rants and raves. It's quite another if comes from the outside in. But then I'd also say we should be minding our own business.
But, this was "not relaxing", which is why I start my day with a modest mental challenge to get the brain going.
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Posted by reinkefj
Yahoo wants to get you interested in registering a domain. Why bother?
Wednesday, May 17, 2006Received an email from Yahoo offering a domain name for 2.99!
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How long will you wait to get that domain for your business, hobby, family, or anything else that interests you? For only $2.99 for the first year, you'll get your domain name plus:
> 24-7 toll-free support: Get help if you have questions.
> Bonus starter web page: Establish your web presence in minutes.
> Domain forwarding: Easily send traffic from your other sites.
Your domain name is out there. Go get it.
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But, I've read GoDaddy's description of the add drop scheme.
http://www.bobparsons.com/index.php?/archives/116-guid.html
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Millions of good .COM domain names on any given day over 3.5 million and climbing — are unfairly made unavailable to small businesses and others who would actually register and use them in ways for which the names were intended. Many times businesses accidentally let their domain names expire. When they go to renew them, they find they have been snapped up and taken away with a huge expensive hassle to follow by an add/drop registrar.
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So it's a waste to even bother looking for "good" domain names. They're all tied up by these phony registrars.
So Yahoo don't waste my time.
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Posted by reinkefj
LUG running wxp sp2 seems to “disconnect” every night?
Wednesday, May 17, 2006Seems like at midnight or there abouts, LUG "disconnects" from my home network. Interesting because nothing will convince it to reconnect but a reboot. Interesting?
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Posted by reinkefj
“Pony Up”? That all the taxpayer keeps doing!
Wednesday, May 17, 2006http://ems.gmnews.com/news/2006/0517/Front_Page/031.html
State needs to pony up more funds for schools
Council supports bill requiring state to fund 25 percent of school costs
BY JOHN DUNPHY Staff Writer
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EDISON – Officials and residents alike are looking for solutions on how to fund education in the wake of the Board of Education's recently defeated budget.
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We may not be an Abbott district, but it doesn't mean we have unlimited funds," she said.
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Ahh, Mister John, tsk, tsk, There is no "State". There are only taxpayers. And, if you're telling us that we have to pony up more, then I'll ask you why?
What makes you think that the taxpayer can afford to "pony up"?
And "pony up" for a failed solution.
If I was in Detroit with a map of Chicago, then you'd know I was lost! But when we have a failed system like "publik skoolz", why can we see that we need a new map?
We certainly should have learned from the Communists that centralized state planning doesn't work. Our education model is lifted directly from the great socialists of the "education experts".
No, sorry, more money is not needed. I don't pay to feed other people's children. Nether, do I clothe them. So why do I have to educate them?
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