TECHNOLOGY: TrustyFiles has it all

Monday, January 29, 2007

http://www.trustyfiles.com/index.php

TrustyFiles

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TrustyFiles is Ultimate P2P – the top high performance multi-network file sharing software with the most advanced features.

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An interesting possibility


RANT: Torture is immoral, inefficient, and ineffective . And Un-American!

Monday, January 29, 2007

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Thank you for participating in DownsizeDC.org’s letter-writing campaign today. For your convenience, this e-mail contains a copy of the letter we sent on your behalf, along with the status of each letter we sent.

Don’t forget to tell your friends about this campaign!

Truth must count. Innocence must matter.
http://action.downsizedc.org/wyc.php?cid=58

Please take immediate action to repeal S. 3930, the detainee, torture, tribunal law. It’s un-American.

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This law is un-American. We have always stood for the rights of the individual to a fair proceeding. Aside for the “small” fact that torture is immoral, it is also inefficient. When under duress, people will tell you what they think you want to hear. It’s ineffective because after torture, if the person was NOT your sworn enemy before it, they certainly will be afterwards. Stop it now.


INTERESTING: Corporate email aliases

Monday, January 29, 2007

A colleague at work got married and changed her name. But, then her email started bouncing. I would have thought that they have given her an alias to prevent disruption to her Customers.

Ahh, what do I know?

I would think that alias would be commonplace.

I’m always suggesting that they give you an alias based on your phone number so that in a conference call people don’t have to waste time spelling out long hard names.

But, then what do I know?


WRITING: Hospital Patience for Dummies

Monday, January 29, 2007
  • get a card from every doc
  • take pics
  • keep a record book
  • card page collector
  • audio record if too sick to write
  • ask about exactly what every med is
  • who rxed it?
  • talk to dietician
  • gripe about tv and phone rip offs
  • roomie rules
  • myob
  • books and tapes
  • spanish
  • learn asl for “private” conversations

Suggestions?

How hospitals can be better:

  • blood taking
  • test sequences
  • if i’m sleeping don’t wake me for routine tests
  • if you’re understaffed or over crowded, don’t take it out on me
  • why xray and radiology separate billers

RANT: If the FCC has any value, it should be here

Monday, January 29, 2007

http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070127/NEWS/701270365

$31,000 cell phone bill stuns Sarasota retiree
By TODD RUGER

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SARASOTA — Oliver DeSofi’s normal cell phone bill is about $150 on a family plan, and he used about 183 minutes on his phone in October.

But when the 77-year-old retiree opened his Cingular Wireless bill in November, he saw $21,420 in roaming charges for more than 4,500 calls from Nicaragua — where he’s never been — to numbers he’s never called.

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What a croc. To put this fellow thru billing hell! This is by no means an isolated case.


INTERESTING: The recent Yahoo email delay

Monday, January 29, 2007

It was weird. I saw some groups with delays of days and some with none at all. So it wasn’t uniform. That’s what threw a curve at me. The unevenness for the failure. Interesting from a thinking perspective because I ASSUMED that the delay would be linear. Why I did that beats me? Guess I didn’t stop and think about it. Just breezed along in my assumption mobile. Fat, dumb, and happy. ;-)