If you print a document and ask for multiple copies, then PRINTERALL only produces one copy.
Interesting.
TECH: PRINTERALL has a small flaw
Thursday, October 19, 2006
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TECH: You can “vampire” LINKEDIN …
Thursday, October 19, 2006My profile is on LinkedIn at:
http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=214231
…
if you want to play pick a new friend at random
…
Pick a number!
Put it at the end of the following string:
http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=
… and meet your new friend!
How long before a bot master discovers this and “sucks” linkedin dry.
Zoominfo did it with the public inet. Why couldn’t a bad guy do it with this “semi-private” data source?
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FUN: Ebay is an interesting phenom
Thursday, October 19, 2006I received an email from FTL about their auction.
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—–Original Message—–
From: FTL-Updates@googlegroups.com
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 10:10 AM
To: FTL-Updates
Subject: [FTL-Updates] Just over 90 mins left!
Wow… someone might just walk away with 1,000 guaranteed impressions of their printed ad on the backside of the upcoming bumpersticker for less than $27. That’s the current price of the FTL auction. That’s less than three cents per impression for a direct mail campaign that would normally cost hundreds if not over a thousand dollars!
If you were thinking about bidding, now is the time. Don’t miss out:
http://auction.freetalklive.com
Thanks for listening,
Ian
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Want to help FTL? AMP at http://amp.freetalklive.com and shop with us at http://amazon.freetalklive.com !
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups “FTL-Updates” group.
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to FTL-Updates-unsubscribe@googlegroups.com
For more options, visit this group at http://updates.freetalklive.com
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On a lark, I bid. (I was not even sure what I’d have put on it. Probably “IluvFTL?”. ;-) I was immediately outbid by someone else’s maximum bid. Interesting concept. So by doing nothing, I got you more money. Strange. Like a poker game? Except if you bluff, and your opponent raises, you get to keep your chips. Weird. Strange. Unsettling.
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ALUMNI: Alum from my defunct high school suggests a tontine
Thursday, October 19, 2006http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tontine
I first heard of the concept on MASH. When the fellow proposed it it seemed a suitable ending of an era in Catholic education.
Sadly.
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LIBERTY: A great idea … if one could pull it off!
Thursday, October 19, 2006http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2006/tle389-20061015-01.html
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No decent country should have a standing military.
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PRODUCTIVITY: WIN (What’s Important Now?!?)
Thursday, October 19, 2006I picked up a good productivity tip from the “younguns” at Free Talk Live. (The term “youngsters” seemed to torque their shorts a little when they read my email on their show.) In my daily commute, I listen to their FREE podcast. And, every so often, I mine a nugget. Here’s one.
Mark described his technique for deciding what to do do NEXT.
(That’s a problem I have with lots of urgent, important, trivial, nagging, projects, and processes that all compete for my time and attention. And, I have a job too.)
He described it as WIN – – – “What’s Important Now?”
Seems like a good approach to me. So now on each task switch, interrupt, or time out, I ask myself what is it?
Help’s me focus.
Capturing good stuff is important all the time. Hence this log entry. ;-) Excuse me, time to WIN!
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LIBERTY: One more thing the gubamint shouldn’t be involved in!
Wednesday, October 18, 2006http://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, 2006http://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, 2006What 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, 2006It 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, 2006An 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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PRODUCTIVITY: IPRIORITIZE for a free 2do list. Now if they’d just do the 2dos.
Tuesday, October 17, 2006***Begin Quote***
Ferdinand Reinke thinks that you would like iPrioritize and wants to invite you to sign up for a free account at http://www.iprioritize.com. iPrioritize provides online to-do lists to help you organize your work, chores, shopping lists, or just about anything else that you make a list for. So sign up today, and be sure to thank Ferdinand for making your life a little more organized.
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Who writes this hokey stuff? Why would anyone look to me as the exemplar or organization? Wanna see my home office? Live wires and papers all about. I’m trying this tool to see if I can be more motivated if I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. Choo choo!
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TECH: Updated main site
Tuesday, October 17, 2006To correct some earlier blunders. Feedback?
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ALUMNI: Finding Jaspers on a site without their help
Tuesday, October 17, 2006Ahhh, never underestimate the power of an annoying alumni.
As you probably know I collect alumni for my Jasper Jottings ezine. It’s a thankless task but someone has to do it. I guess?
Anyway, the above site has Jaspers in it. But finding them, is next to impossible, because the site doesn’t offer to search by undergrad school.
So for the longest time, (I can be very dense when I am focused), I kept “shaking that particular tree” trying to get them Jaspers to fall out. I knew they were in there. Eventually, I gave up. I’d come back to it from time to time. Sort of like a dog with its favorite spot.
Finally the Intelligent Designer or the Universe decided I suffered enough and I had an insight.
Google!
Lawyers want to be findable. So Martindale probably encourages the Google spyder to visit. If that’s the case, then my search is possible. FROM GOOGLE!
Off to the Google search site, I craft a very complex query:
“manhattan college” site:www.martindale.com
Bang it into the web browser, and poof! Out rolls 153 Jaspers ripe for the recruiting and reporting cycle.
Wasn’t that easy!
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LIBERTY: Gubamint IS the problem! It’s the thief that kills people.
Tuesday, October 17, 2006http://bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aef6sR60oDgM&refer=home
Bono, Preacher on Poverty, Tarnishes Halo With Irish Tax Move
By Fergal O’Brien
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Oct. 16 (Bloomberg) — Bono, the rock star and campaigner against Third World debt, is asking the Irish government to contribute more to Africa. At the same time, he’s reducing tax payments that could help fund that aid.
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Personally, I see nothing wrong with that move. I don’t think ANY taxes should be paid. It’s theft. Anything you can do to keep a robber from taking stuff is justified. The gubamint is just robbing him.
If I had a critique of him, and all the other so-called liberals, as opposed to the Classical Liberals who wanted Liberty, it would be to advocate the use of tax money at all for anything, even worthwhile things like poverty relief. After all, if it’s a good idea, then people will do it willingly. Loot at charity, disaster relief, telethons! Why send money to the government, incur a handling cost of say half, to have them send it to the charity? Go direct and avoid the middle man.
I think that poverty around the world is universally caused by governments. Just as in nature, an animal gets a parasite that eventually kills them, humans have this mental parasite called government. And, it kills.
Like the balance of good and bad bacteria in our bellies, we need government to preserve the peace and maintain order. (A joke in today’s world.) When it oversteps that simple mission, it causes all sorts of havoc.
Corrupt government, dictators that loot the treasury, and theocracies that enforce beliefs are all examples of impoverishing governments.
It’s further humorous, in a sad sort of way, that people are starving and we are talking a dealing with their governments as if they were legitimate. We should have a list of those countries that are impoverished and punish those governments with ostracism. Too many people in your country starving, you’re not invited to the next state dinner. If our businessmen can not trade with their counterparts in your country, then you can’t buy anything for yourself personally here. Loot your country’s treasury, don’t plan on buying investments here. Kill your citizens, and don’t look for our protection from their relatives. Maintain peace and order like a civilized government should, hey the door’s open, pull up a chair, how can we help you?
It’s government that impoverishes society, oppresses their minorities, and kills their citizens. Stamp out that plague of gubamint.
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PRODUCTIVITY: Makes you think about your priorities.
Tuesday, October 17, 2006http://up-file.com/download/95eded165190/
paradoxofourtimes-pps-1.pps.html
It’s an interesting thought provoking piece.
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TECH: What do you do with big files? Don’t email them!
Tuesday, October 17, 2006http://copylog.blogspot.com/2005/11/big-collection-of-free-file-hosting.html
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2005-11-30
A Big Collection of Free File Hosting
Collection of 50+ free file hosting from 10MB to 2GB that do not require registration, with detailed of file size limit, download limit and file life. Keep it for future reference.
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Came in handy for an emergency need.
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ALUMNI: Repub the jasper Jottings Front Lot to restore format
Tuesday, October 17, 2006http://home.comcast.net/~jxymxu7sn5ho9d/index.html
Republishing the Jasper Jottings Front Lot to fix format koed by isp.
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TECH: “Backup before using Beta or New Releases” but is that possible?
Monday, October 16, 2006http://www.pcmech.com/newsletter/viewtip.php?tipid=704
Backup before using Beta or New Releases
Sent on October 15, 2006 | Category: General Software
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It is always a good idea to have a full backup of all your data before installing *any* beta or new release software.
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Hey, wonderful idea. Tell Microsoft!
With the auto update, you have zero control over forced updates. they even reboot your machine remotely. Even if you aren’t ready for it to happen. Or, they do annoying nags to reboot. Or, slip stuff into fixes and ilk.
Even with the other bozo software companies, it’s not that easy to control the versioning.
With web-based software, it virtually impossible.
There are at least two levels of change control that needs to be considered — at the program level and at the data level.
The trend is in the other direction as is evidenced by the virtual abandonment of version numbers. (I still don’t see what is wrong with version 1, 2, 3, 3.5, 7.02.) It implies that there is compatibility at some level between the old and the new. I remember when software would be graceful about versioning. Heck, the monster Microsoft allowed Word to write old format data.
The user is the version control?
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TECH: GOOGLEPAGES doesn’t do PDFs
Monday, October 16, 2006I know everyone LOVES everything that Google does.
BUT it’s PAGES won’t host a PDF. My work around is to use PAPERPORT9 to convert a pdf into a jpg which Google Pages will host.
Comments?
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LIBERTY: Your right to just compensation, as recognized Fifth Amendment, not applicable here
Monday, October 16, 2006Eminent Domain: Date of Valuation, Blight Declaration and
Constitutional Considerations
State of New Jersey
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In the case before Judge Costello, the gap between the declaration of blight and the filing of the complaint was 18 months (April 12, 2004 – October 21, 2005). The Court felt there was no substantial time delay in pursuing the condemnation process. Therefore, no constitutional implications were raised by the use of a significantly earlier date. The Court referenced the New Jersey Supreme Court case Jersey City Redevelopment Agency v. Kugler, 58 N.J. 374 (1971), where the gap between the declaration of blight and filing of the complaint was 9 years.
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I think that this whole thing STINKS!
The dead old white guys would be taking down the long guns from over the mantle and strolling down to the Town Green to form the militia.
I think that the gubamint should have to get permission from the people to use eminent domain. It’s a blunt tool that is too easy to abuse.
For their friends, they condem and pay top dollar for a toxic waste dump to put schools on. For their enemies, they’ll condem your house for any reason. And the Intelligent Designer will have to have mercy on you, if your property is wanted by a campaign contributor.
We need to stuff this genie back in the box!
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FUN Shorthand explanation
Monday, October 16, 2006http://www.aim.com/acronyms.adp?aolp=0
ROFL that they have to PUB a TLA list.
I notice the left out STFU or WTF or RTFM or W00T or … YMMV …
or my personal favorite TANSTAFL!
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GUNS: Deadly at three quarters of a mile
Monday, October 16, 2006http://www.washtimes.com/world/20060115-111618-6393r.htm
U.S. Army sniper nails record shot
By Toby Harnden
LONDON SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
January 16, 2006
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A single shot hit the Iraqi in the chest and killed him instantly. It had been fired from a range of more than three-quarters of a mile, well beyond the capacity of the powerful Leupold sight, accurate to 3,300 feet.
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And, we put up with tyrants, dictators, and other bad guys why?
One would think that the dead old white guy’s ideas about marque and retort could be applied usefully today. It would seem that bad people could be returned to the Intelligent Designer as sort of a warranty claim. Not that we, or our government, would do it. We’d just pay off like a reward.
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LIBERTY: 60MINUTES may not be above reproach but they did put some fuel on the fire
Monday, October 16, 2006http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/10/11/
60minutes/main2082140.shtml
Duke Rape Suspects Speak Out
60 Minutes’ Ed Bradley Talks To The Accused Lacrosse Players,
Who Have Never Before Been Interviewed
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The three players are white, and come from wealthy families; the accuser is black, a local dancer hired to perform at a team party. Over the past six months, 60 Minutes has examined nearly the entire case file, more than 2,000 documents, including police reports, witness statements and medical records. The evidence 60 Minutes has seen reveals disturbing facts about the conduct of the police and the district attorney, and raises serious concerns about whether or not a rape even occurred.
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I wasn’t there. Innocent until proven guilty.
And, it does sound like the DA used the case for politics.
What a surprise, the gubamint abused it power.
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JOBSEARCH: What is LinkedIn’s value
Monday, October 16, 2006http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000703.html
Many people can’t find the value in LinkedIn.
I think it is:
(1) making yourself findable (i.e., to headhunters);
(2) finding others (i.e., to solve “problems” or exploit “opportunities”; and
(3) strengthening weak bonds.
There are 398 Yahoo Groups about LinkedIn. Here’s the list:
http://groups.yahoo.com/search?query=LinkedIn&sc=0&sg=0&ss=1
Here are the ones that I have found are useful.
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/LICM/
LICM is especially for users of the LinkedIn Contacts Management Application developed by Arnnei Speiser of Mega AS Consulting Ltd.
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/MyLinkedinPowerForum/
Linkedin Power Forum is to help Linkedin users power up their networking in order to do business better. To do business better, we need to communicate better, faster, and WITH LESS STRESS! Communication is POWER – and at 7.5 million users, Linkedin represents a LOT of power for you!
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/LinkedinBloggers/
LinkedIn Bloggers is a forum for discussing how blogging and related technologies, such as podcasting, video blogging (vlogging)and wikis can support members’ professional networking using LinkedIn.
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MONEY: Get the old folks to prepare for the inevitable
Monday, October 16, 2006Arghhh, I hate what old age does to the “old folks”. Sigh, and it will happen to all of us if we are lucky.
My thought this morning is very bleak. Old age, really old, not what I am, robs people of the facilities. Once vibrant intelligent people, capable of conducting their own affairs, are reduced by old age to mush. As you may or may not know, I have POA (power of attorney) on three old folks who are now in that state where they can’t comprehend their financial affairs and other arrangements. It’s sad. But, at least, I have the paperwork necessary to do it for them.
One should prepare for that day. Make your affairs as simple as possible and as automatic as possible. I am putting all my old folks on Paytrust. That service will receive their bills and present them to me via the web for disposition. I wish I had done that two years ago, when the first one started to falter.
Sigh, I’m not going to fall into that trap.
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