TECHNOLOGY: Get a feel for the Web 2.0. Do it and grok it!

Friday, October 27, 2006

Someone asked me to formulate a demonstration of Web 2.0 and the power of XML.

Let’s go BLOG 2 FEED 2 EMAIL.

Free.

AND, completely independent inet web services that speak XML to each other.

SO we’re going to tie WORDPRESS (a great blog site) to FEEDBURNER (a great feed generating site) to FEEDBLITZ (a great feed 2 email site).

Without cost and in minutes.

==== BEGIN ====

Start a free blog

http://wordpress.com/signup/

Let’s create “loveconquersallthings”.

It’s now at:

http://loveconquersallthings.wordpress.com/

Put in a message at:

https://loveconquersallthings.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post-new.php

You’re now a blogger.

Go to a different web service site, and create a feed:

http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/home

and it now tells you that the feed is available here:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/wordpress/RPsI

Now you have a blog and a feed, lets ship it to email:

http://www.feedblitz.com

and it tells you here’s the link to add an email output:

http://www.feedblitz.com/f/?Sub=115156

Plug in your email address and respond to the challenge.

It sends an email to confirm that the owner of the email wants it.

Confirm your subscription with the link in the email.

==== DONE ====

Now write a post in your blog. And the next day, it appears in your email box.

Why?

You have put the email recipient in true control of their subscription to your blog. You don’t need to know their email address. No chance for spam.

That’s the promise of web 2.0!

I hope that helps.

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TECHNOLOGY: New social networking site with blog

Friday, October 27, 2006

http://www.vox.com

A new social networking blog site with the concept of logical neighborhood. Just launched. Free. I’m there. Noodling around the concept. Join up with me or ping for an invite. If you wanted to try blogging and virtual networking, this seems like a gentle way to stick that toe in. imho.

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MONEY: What does FDIC insurance really mean? Not much imho!

Friday, October 27, 2006

http://tinyurl.com/yydwkt

http://personal.fidelity.com/myfidelity/
email.html?http://myfidelity.members.fidelity.com
/investorsWeekly/cms/FEA0610fdicenews.dyn

What Does FDIC Insurance Really Mean?
Clarifying the Top 10 misperceptions
Published: October 23, 2006

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To help depositors avoid repeating the mistakes of others, FDIC Consumer News has compiled this “Top 10” list of misconceptions that some people have about FDIC insurance. This list is based on discussions with FDIC deposit insurance specialists, including representatives at our toll-free, which handles hundreds of calls a month from consumers asking about their deposit insurance.

***End Quote***

Misconception 11: That when the “barbara striesand” hit the fan you’ll be OK.

When the banks start failing, the FDIC will get hit with so MANY claims the Federal Reserve, which is neither Federal, nor does it have anything in reserve, will have to subcontract to Charmin Toilet Paper to get more “dollars” to placate everyone.

What would cause the banks to start failing?

Loss of confidence in the Federal Reserve Bank Note. (Affectionately called the furbie or FRBie by it’s detractors!) When the foreigners stop sending toyotas for pretty green pieces of paper, then we’re in a world of striesand! When the sheiks want gold of oil, then we’re in a world of striesand! When WalMart wants metal aot furbies, then we’re in a world of striesand!

The Real Estate market falls off a cliff. When McMansions can’t sell at any price. Debtors will walk away leaving the house for the bank. What’s the bank gonna do with it? When the depositor walks in to get their cash, what does the bank do? Give them a basement, bedroom, or kitchen. I don’t think so. Now, we have some experience in bank runs from the Great Depression. And, some modern history in the S&L debacle in the 80s. Every homeowner ASSUMES (and we all know what that means!) that their house will increase in value and that they will be able to pay off their mortgage with dollars that are worth 5% less every year. What if that’s not true?

We, the people, in order to form a more perfect union, decide that we want “real money”. As a nation, if we stop using “dollars” and shift to say gold coins … err medallions … since the Mint thinks that only they can coin … so we use ounces of gold and silver as our “real” money. Envision that you have ten gold coins in your pocket and 70 hundred dollar furbies, which will you dump first? Yup, those furbies. That will KILL the banks. People will not be “saving” furbies with them but converting furbies to medallions. That signals the end to the era of fiat currency.

Misconception 12: That when the “barbara striesand” hit the fan, the Federal Government will stand behind the FDIC

Hmmm, politicians be counted upon to keep their promises. There’s a losing strategy!

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XPfails – luggable – slows to crawl

Friday, October 27, 2006

LUGGABLE needed a reboot. It slowed to a crawl. FFOX2 appears to be the culprit with all applications entries not responding. Nuking everything in sight didn’t seem to help. Argh!

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TECHNOLOGY: THINKFREE 2 BLOG ng!

Friday, October 27, 2006

Dear Support:

Put in:

http://www.thinkfree.com/filelink.tfo?filemasterno=492907&filekey=o6l02vlqyp

Got out:

https://reinkefj.wordpress.com/2006/10/26/thinkfree-to-wordpress-test/

Note the garbage line that looks like bad format.

Note all the advertising. (Yuck!)

Verdict: Would be a good feature. Not properly implemented. Obviously not tested.

imho!

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GUNS: PA Police Refusing To Obey The Law

Thursday, October 26, 2006

PA Police Refusing To Obey The Law
— Ask the Attorney General to rein them in!

Gun Owners of America E-Mail Alert
8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, VA 22151
Phone: 703-321-8585 / FAX: 703-321-8408
http://www.gunowners.org

Wednesday, October 25, 2006

The PA State Police are refusing to obey the law, despite court decisions to the contrary.

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Federal privacy laws prohibit the mandatory use of social security numbers as identification. In a recent court decision, U.S. District Judge Juan R. Sanchez stated that gun owners cannot be required to supply social security numbers when buying a gun or applying for a concealed carry permit.

But the PA State Police, with the help of the Attorney General Tom Corbett (R), are disregarding the court and are asking a circuit court judge to strike down Sanchez’ order. They don’t want to issue privacy warnings, as required by Section 7(b) of the Privacy Act of 1974; they want to keep collecting the social security numbers of all gun buyers and carry permit holders.

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The only reason the gubamint wants “gun registration” is so they know who to arrest when the crackdown comes.

Look at pre-WW2 Germany as the model.

From the JPFO http://www.jpfo.org/alert20061023.htm

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Okay, let’s pretend that’s true (historical evidence to the contrary). In the early 1930’s, in response to a recent crime wave, the right-of-center Weimar Republic passed several “vital, necessary” laws registering firearms and prohibiting Gypsies from owning them. Five years later, a left-of-center leader was in power and used those same laws, amending them as needed, to consolidate his power. The result was World War II and the murder of millions of what the US might today refer to as “unlawful enemy combatants.”

***End Quote***

Forewarned is forearmed.

The gubamint MUST be made to obey it’s own laws. Else all hope is lost.

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LIBERTY: A libertarian columnist hasn’t produced anything for a while

Thursday, October 26, 2006

http://www.reviewjournal.com/columnists/suprynowicz.html

Is he an enemy combatant?

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LIBERTY: Muslim cleric’s claim that women are ‘uncovered meat’. What a hoot!

Thursday, October 26, 2006

http://tinyurl.com/yeqjnd

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/
news.html?in_article_id=412697&in_page_id=1770

Outrage as Muslim cleric likens women to ‘uncovered meat’
By RICHARD SHEARS Last updated at 16:10pm on 26th October 2006

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A Muslim cleric’s claim that women who do not wear the veil are like ‘uncovered meat’ who attract sexual predators sparked outrage around Australia yesterday.

***End Quote***

This one is a real corker.

Now, anyone is entitled to believe whatever they want. And, I’ll defend their right to be wrong, unpopular, and dumb. Having said that, let’s take a gander at what he said.

(1) Men are incapable of self-control.

(2) Women are so attractive that men are powerless.

(3) And, in his world, women are better off locked up at home.

That’s my translation.

In my world, men universally respect women for the valuable things they do that we can’t do, can’t do well, or are not in someway suited to do.

Bear children. Comfort children. Clean up after children.

(I recognize that men don’t clean like women do.)

Those are valuable. Even more so, if all the women are locked up at home, we have just cut the labor available by 50%. And, some of that is a very SMART 50%.

The Intelligent Designer made men and women attractively different. It works best as an equal partnership imho.

AND, if you believe this cleric, the certainly you want to arm all the “uncovered meat” with a nice girly gun like the 380 so they can protect themselves from all those men with uncontrollable urges.

Only a man could come up with a hoot like this. Women have too much common sense.

And, by the way, where are all the leftist women’s libbers? If this guy was a republicrat or democan, then they’d be screaming for his head on a pike.

Do we detect some different standards here?

You just have to love it. Freedom isn’t free. And certainly not without rebutal.

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TECHNOLOGY: Technorati doesn’t work (for me)!

Thursday, October 26, 2006

http://tinyurl.com/yzgp9r

http://www.technorati.com/blogs/
http%3A%2F%2Freinkefj.wordpress.com

Technorati

***Begin Quote***

Info for https://reinkefj.wordpress.com
Reinke Faces Life
* Rank: 405,906 (19 links from 7 blogs) What do these numbers mean?
* URL: https://reinkefj.wordpress.com
* Updated: 165 days ago
* Favorited by: 0 members Add to your Favorites

***End Quote***

You show an age of 165. I have new content everyday. HELP! I ping. WordPress pings. To no avail.

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TECHNOLOGY: FIREFOX2 (FFX2) needs a Google Web Accelerator plug in update

Thursday, October 26, 2006

Google lagging behind the tech curve?

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TECHNOLOGY: Serious Magic consumed by Adobe. Too bad!

Thursday, October 26, 2006

http://tinyurl.com/y6xbmo

http://drjoewebb.blogspot.com/2006/10/
theres-some-serious-magic-at-adobe.html#comments

Jasper Joe Webb’s blog reported

>This article reports their purchase
>of Serious Magic. I have used their
>Visual Communicator product

Dear fellow Jasper, I’ve used the Serious Magic product. I’m sorry to see ANY useful product picked up by “the big boyze”. It always leads to the death of innovation. Here’s my uses if you want a laff.

http://home.comcast.net/~v2y2r0n27rhj6y/PaperKnot.wmv
http://home.comcast.net/~v2y2r0n27rhj6y/We_Have_Technology.wmv

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TECHNOLOGY: 1and1 (my wsp) offers a great deal

Thursday, October 26, 2006

Dear XXXX, You may want to shop around. $9 per month is a lot of money. For example, 1and1 has better deals. I host Jasper Jottings with them http://www.1and1.com/?k_id=9113251 and, while I have a pro package for my consulting business, they offer a “beginner package” (that’s pretty impressive) for 3$/month. So, I’d urge you to shop around. 1and1 offers commercial grade facilities at amateur prices. Fjohn

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XPfails – luggable – PRINTERALL fails to pull data

Thursday, October 26, 2006

Interesting … the PRINTERALL client doesn’t have ANY data in it. None at all. Hmmm, who to point the finger at?

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MONEY: Local bank can’t understand a ladder?

Thursday, October 26, 2006

Frau went to the local bank to roll her IRA into a cd ladder. Nothing complex. But it seemed to tizzy them AND they made a mistake. Arghh!

For the uninitiated, a CD LADDER is nothing more than the name given to an investment program to maximize your return on a fixed income portfolio, while minimizing your exposure to interest rate fluctuations. It attempts to always have money available for other options, get the “best” rate available, and minimize seasonal fluctuation in rates.

A CD LADDER takes a portfolio of say 40k$ and divides it up into 20 units. The idea is to have five different terms of 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 years during each of the four quarterly periods.

So, 40k$ divided by 20 gives a unit size of 2k$. One buys: a 12 month cd for 1 unit; a 24 month cd for 1 unit; a 36 month cd for 1 unit: a 48 month cd for one unit; and a 60 month cd for one unit.

Then, to prepare for buys in future quarters, one buys: a 90 day cd for 5 units; a 180 day cd for 5 units; and 270 day cd for 5 units. When each of these matures, you take the proceeds and repeat the annual cd strategy.

At the end of a year, you have your 20 cds all setup. Then, at each individual cd’s maturity, you buy the 5 year cd.

Mission accomplished: 5% of your portfolio is available every quarter AND you are always getting the five year rate. It’s not the roller coaster stock market, but it is “widows and orphans” thinking. Hard to cheat anyone of their life savings when they can only get 5% at a time.

Easy to understand?

Not for our local bank.

Their registered representative obviously has NOT only never heard of a ladder, but can’t implemented it. Argh!

Explained it twice, with pictures when we went to have them move the money custodian 2 custodian transfer. (That only took two weeks! Right, in today’s eft climate. Can you say “dragging feet”?)

So yesterday, Frau went and they spent two hours doing it and, “upon further review” I found a mistake. Argh!

Sigh, not very inspiring.

Questions?

===

On a technical note, when the total portfolio exceeds the FDIC insurance, one should begin to split the account into two different banks. That can be easily done by a partial custodian to custodian transfer of a maturing cd. So for example, pick one quarter, say Second Quarter, and each year transfer that rolling over cd from Bank#1 to Bank#2. Easy, right? Nah, everyone looks at you like you have two heads. One could do it by Year, in that you have Year 2008 at Bank#2 and all other Years at Bank#1, but I like the Quarter approach. Can’t tell you why, but it appeals to me.

You can split into a third and fourth bank should the size warrent. If you need more than 4 banks (i.e., 400k$), then you probably need a better strategy (i.e., a brokerage account with a fixed income specialist). For the little guys, self-designed ladders are fine imho.

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LIBERTY: Get the gubamint out of the marriage business

Thursday, October 26, 2006

http://tinyurl.com/vbvda

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20061025/D8KVS3P00.html

NJ Court Stops Short of Gay Marriage OK
Oct 25, 3:58 PM (ET) By GEOFF MULVIHILL

***Begin Quote***

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) – New Jersey’s Supreme Court opened the door to gay marriage Wednesday, ruling that homosexuals are entitled to the same rights as heterosexuals, but leaving it to lawmakers to legalize same-sex unions.

***End Quote***

I think the issue is about the WRONG question entirely.

Once again the politicians, and judges are really nothing more than unelected politicians, have once again succeeded in misdirecting us.

WHY is the gubamint involved in marriage at all?

Marriage “regulation” stems from the racist past when busy bodies want to prevent black men from marrying white women.

The Constitutional State has no business in anyone’s “marriage”. Gay, straight, or Irish / Italian.

This is the proper role for Churches.

The various laws and tax code “giving” benefits to “married people” is just wrong.

SO, let’s focus on the correct issue. Get the gubamint out of the marriage business. Period!

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FUN: Wrote story, bonanza, stopped blogging!

Thursday, October 26, 2006

http://wired.com/wired/archive/14.11/sixwords.html

Issue 14.11 – November 2006
Very Short Stories
33 writers. 5 designers. 6-word science fiction.
Page 1 of 1

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We’ll be brief: Hemingway once wrote a story in just six words (“For sale: baby shoes, never worn.”) and is said to have called it his best work. So we asked sci-fi, fantasy, and horror writers from the realms of books, TV, movies, and games to take a shot themselves.

***End Quote***

I liked:

Automobile warranty expires. So does engine.
– Stan Lee

And was moved by:

K.I.A. Baghdad, Aged 18 – Closed Casket
– Richard K. Morgan

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TECHNOLOGY: ThinkFree to WordPress test

Thursday, October 26, 2006

Just playing with a “new” feature in ThinkFree. Did it work?

.thinkfree_footer {font-family:verdana;font-size:11px;color:#999;}

Click POWER VIEW

Powered by ThinkFree, the best online office Some rights reserved.

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LIBERTY: The FTL boys hit the gubamint skools as why we’re apathetic

Wednesday, October 25, 2006

http://bbs.freetalklive.com/index.php?topic=8549.0

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The real problem with school is not that it is a monopoly, controlled by the unions, or funded by a gang of violent thugs.

***End Quote***

On the contrary, the whole concept of a government funded and run system of public education comes to us from pre-WW1 Germany where the purpose was to train young men to be good soldiers (i.e., cannon fodder). I remember some specific points from somewhere about: discipline; answering to bells; and separation from their families. In the USA, it was championed by avowed socialists who saw it as a way of getting the country to adopt socialism.

It worked.

***Begin Quote***

The idea that most kids need anything more than the basic skills of reading, writing, and dealing with money is crazy, and even these skills are not best taught by schools Students should be free to learn what they want to learn, based on the opportunities and responsibilities which their parents provide.

***End Quote***

Agreed. But where do they learn all the skills prized by the state like conformity and obedience to the enlightened? Where do they learn contempt for their parent’s religious beliefs? When do they learn the state’s religion — relativistic secular humanism? Where do they learn violence? Where do they learn that they are just powerless cogs?

***Begin Quote***

I wish I had been taught: political principles, Libertarianism, non-violence, practical economics (financial independence), the Bible (not religion), the science of health (not medicine or biology), committed relationships (not sex-education), gardening, solar power, biodiesel, building, computer programming, practical design (not art), etc.

***End Quote***

I’d throw in: Individual self-reliance, Independent inter-dependence, and the teaching of the meme’s: Christ, Washington, Jefferson, Gandhi, Churchill, Mother Teresa, and perhaps Harry Browne.

***Begin Quote***

2. The second is that kids are entitled to an education.

***End Quote***

There is no “right” to an education. And there is certainly no “right” that makes me pay for it.

***Begin Quote***

Want to deregulate the schools? Let students choose teachers, and teachers compete for students. The one thing that would do the most good for education, is to make the whole thing voluntary. Make no student attend any class they didn’t want to attend, and make no teacher teach any student that they didn’t want to teach.

***End Quote***

Repeal mandatory attendance laws.

I wrote a transition plan that says it would take us 40 years to kill the gubamint’s skools.

***Begin Quote***

If a teacher didn’t have any students, they wouldn’t get paid.

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Sounds right to me.

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JOBSEARCH: What (moral) obligations does one have to a group

Wednesday, October 25, 2006

I was recently challenged about thinking that a person has an obligation to explain why they are leaving a social networking group. I thought I should capture that answer in my blog.

***Begin Quote***

> but why in the world would anyone have to explain
>why they were leaving any group, whether social networking

Well, I can think of a few reasons. Some are “why should I”, “why could I”, “why it would be nice if I did”, and one “why I must”.

Let me see if any of this makes sense.

ONE: I think that when one joins a group, even if it is free, and partakes of the benefits of that group, then you OWE an explanation for leaving. If you pay for the group, then you have less of that obligation. The more you pay the less you’re obligated imho.

TWO: I think that it is common courtesy, like saying “please” and “thank you”. It’s a rarity these days in the world of headhunting and jobsearching, which imho constitutes the big usage or big value of LinkedIn. Hence “they” — the hunters and seekers — are bringing that “ethics” of rudeness into the Yahoo Groups.

THREE: It is educational. I’m a big fan of the Johari Window. So, this fellow, leaving, has certain insights (DIKW) that we could benefit from. If he had said why, then perhaps I could have learned in my quest for the “value in linkedin”. By leaving no note behind as he committed virtual suicide, I’m left guessing. (I don’t do well with ambiguity. I r an injineer. I need explicit facts and formulas. I don’t watch the poker shows because I NEED to see the rabbit card (the remaining cards being dealt) to KNOW how the soap opera would have played out.)

FOUR: He may have had friends and acquaintances in the group that would need some closure.

FIVE: It’s always somewhat satisfying to read someone ranting about this or that, as they stomp out the door. Even more satisfying when they sheepishly creep back in admitting they were wrong.

***End Quote***

Comments?

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JOBSEARCH: Advice from three IT honchos

Wednesday, October 25, 2006

http://www.networkworld.com/careers/2006/
101606-career-cio-tips.html?netht=101606netflash

Create your own career destiny
Three CIOs share tips for advancing in your profession.

Management Strategies By Sandra Gittlen, Network World, 10/16/06

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Bill Leo began his career putting paper in printers at a Fortune 100 firm. Greg Morrison started out as a commissioned officer doing project management in the Army Signal Corps. And Scott Townsend used a background in economics as a springboard into IT.

***End Quote***

It doesn’t matter how you start. It does matter how you finish.

It’s an interesting read.

IMHO if we had more techies in CIO positions and more business people as CTOs, our industry would be better off.

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LIBERTY: We are all poorer because of our own stupidity

Wednesday, October 25, 2006

http://tinyurl.com/umrgy

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WalterEWilliams/2006/10/25
/should_we_trade_at_all

Should we trade at all
By Walter E. Williams
Wednesday, October 25, 2006

Dr. Williams serves on the faculty of George Mason University as John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics and is the author of More Liberty Means Less Government: Our Founders Knew This Well.

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You might wonder how it is possible for, say, the sugar industry to rip off consumers. After all, consumers are far more numerous than sugar workers and sugar bosses. It’s easy. A lot is at stake for those in the sugar industry, workers and bosses. They dedicate huge resources to pressure Congress into enacting trade restrictions. But how many of us consumers will devote the same resources to unseat a congressman who voted for sugar restrictions that forced us to pay $21 more for the sugar our family uses? It’s the problem of visible beneficiaries of trade restrictions, sugar workers and bosses, gaining at the expense of invisible victims — sugar consumers. We might think of it as congressional price-gouging.

***End Quote***

Doctor Williams has a unique ability to frame an issue so even I can understand it.

Tariffs, taxes, “price supports”, “price floors”, “minimums” are all just things that make us poorer.

Universally poorer.

Every family in Amerika is paying to subsidize the sugar producers in the South, their lobbyists, and the politicians that they have bought and paid for.

When the final history of mankind is written, gubamint will be recognized as the ultimate mental disorder. It will probably be cited as worse than any genocidal maniac who used gubamint. It will be that quain period in human development when, like the Salem Witch trials, Human sacrifice, race wars, and (my particular favorite) genocide, the participant in the era didn’t realize just how STUPID they were being.

Similar to sugar, there are: minimum wage laws, milk price “supports”, minimum cigarette prices, and all manner of other gubamint actions that make us poorer.

What have you done about it?

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RANT: Nu Jerzee political theater

Tuesday, October 24, 2006

http://tinyurl.com/y7wk22

http://channel-surfing.blogspot.com/2006/10/
now-boys-i-guess-this-is-what.html#comments

Monday, October 23, 2006
Now, boys ….
(I guess this is what happens when legislators discuss ethics)

***Begin Quote***

I sometimes think the folks who do the people’s business in Trenton are really nothing more than 8-year-old boys (and girls). Evidence the absurd behavior of the members of an allegedly bipartisan special ethics committee that met this morning. First, the committee breaks down along partisan lines in unnecessary bickering over who will chair it, and then it fails to agree on whether it should consider the plight of state Sen. Wayne Bryant, the former budget committee chairman and powerful South Jersey Democrat.

***End Quote***

Ah, they are pulling the wool over everyone’s eyes. Everyone that buys into the myth that there is any difference between the two “major” parties. It’s political theater at it’s best. They are two sides of the same coin. Tweedily dumb and dumber. And year after year, we fall for it. It’s as illusionary as the Yankees battling against the Red Sox, as if it mattered. Only in this case, it’s the taxpayers of Nu Jerzee that fund it. Someday everyone will wake up and find out that the joke has been on us all along.

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XPfails – luggable – OUTLOOK snarfs 4 messages today

Tuesday, October 24, 2006

OUTLOOK snarfed four messages today. No rhyme or reason. Copying the message to a new one and send worked fine. Just annoying.

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LIBERTY: Weather forecasts. Economic projections. Points spreads.

Tuesday, October 24, 2006

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15391426/site/newsweek

Remember Global Cooling?
Why scientists find climate change so hard to predict.
WEB EXCLUSIVE
By Jerry Adler
Updated: 5:41 p.m. ET Oct. 23, 2006

***Begin Quote***

Oct. 23, 2006 – In April, 1975, in an issue mostly taken up with stories about the collapse of the American-backed government of South Vietnam, NEWSWEEK published a small back-page article about a very different kind of disaster. Citing “ominous signs that the earth’s weather patterns have begun to change dramatically,” the magazine warned of an impending “drastic decline in food production.” Political disruptions stemming from food shortages could affect “just about every nation on earth.” Scientists urged governments to consider emergency action to head off the terrible threat of . . . well, if you had been following the climate-change debates at the time, you’d have known that the threat was: global cooling.

***End Quote***

And, you’re surprised when people don’t believe what they are told.

Weather forecasts. Economic projections. Points spreads.

How many people keep score of their predictions?

I do. I don’t make any. Any more.

The worst part of being a IT Architect is to make long term plans and be unable to change the future.

I call it the “Dephi Oracle” problem.

Yup, I see the brick wall you’re running headlong for. You, it’s still there and your speeding up. Gonna be a crash. Hay, listen up.

Klunk!

Yeah, I know if I was a better predictor, I would have been able to make you listen. Right!

What’s your prediction score?

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XPfails – luggable – RSSBANDIT fails

Tuesday, October 24, 2006

RSSBANDIT failed in initiation. Stopping and starting didn’t help. Reviewing the task manger I couldn’t find anything to nuke. A reboot was required. The reboot process exposed a hidden window that was recorded as RSSBANDIT’s. I don’t know how one could find and nuke it without the restart. That seems like a design failure.

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XPfails – luggable – wsod

Tuesday, October 24, 2006

The white screen of death hit at 1215. Argh!

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