LIBERTY: One more thing the gubamint shouldn’t be involved in!

Wednesday, October 18, 2006

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/17/AR2006101701263_pf.html

No Death Benefits for Studds’s Spouse
Wednesday, October 18, 2006; A19

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BOSTON, Oct. 17 — The federal government has refused to pay death benefits to the spouse of former congressman Gerry E. Studds (D-Mass.), the first openly gay member of Congress.

Studds married Dean Hara in 2004 after same-sex marriage was legalized in Massachusetts. But Hara will not be eligible to receive any portion of Studds’s estimated $114,337 annual pension because the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act bars the federal government from recognizing Studds’s marriage.

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Watch how fast this gets changed now.

My question would be: Why is the gubamint involved in pensions anyway? Why is it involved in marriage — gay or straight? Why are they involved in all sorts of things, other than defending the States and maintaining order among the States (It’s supposed to be the United STATES of America!)?

There should be ZERO federal employees! Zero pensions! And, zero taxes!

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TECH: Microsoft has no viewer for Microsoft Project

Wednesday, October 18, 2006

http://project.mvps.org/faqs.htm#Project%20Viewer

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Microsoft has not provided a viewer for Project. However, it is designed with the Web in mind, which allows anyone with an Internet Browser or email facilities to view details. For a picture, try clicking the copy picture button (little camera on the standard toolbar). There you have the option of creating a GIF file which can be used with the Save As… HTML format or directly attached to an email. Save As HTML… > give a file name and Save > select an Export Map (or New Map) > Edit > Options tab check “Include image file in HTML page” > insert path and name of GIF image.

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Argh! That’s a bummer. I like the viewers to protect me from active content in Microsoft files. Sigh!

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RANT: What happened to blueberries this year?

Wednesday, October 18, 2006

What happened to blueberries this year?

They are usually cheap and plentiful here in Jersey. Especially in the fall. This year they were scrawny and expensive and often unavailable.

Aside from the fact that I like them, they are reputed to have special unique anti-cancer anti-aging anti-everything benefits.

Whaaa, I want cheap blueberries!

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TECH: The signup for GMAIL has a flaw

Wednesday, October 18, 2006

It allows you to send repeatedly invites to the same email address.

I use it to generate extra email addresses that I can use for specific purposes.

Maybe they don’t care.

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TECH: LookOut, aka MSFT OutLook, has ANOTHER message “stuck”!

Wednesday, October 18, 2006

An email I wrote yesterday, and “sent”, is stuck in the outbox. Argh!

No apparent reason. No fix possible.

Workaround is to copy it to a new message, send that, and nuke the stukee.

Argh!

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