FUN: 23 fascinating facts

Tuesday, February 27, 2007

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/
this_britain/article2296846.ece

http://tinyurl.com/39jbl9

23 fascinating facts about the number twenty-three
To most, it’s just what comes between 22 and 24. Yet to surprisingly many – including the makers of a new film – it means much more.
Cahal Milmo and Tom Willetts explore a bizarre obsession
Published: 23 February 2007

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17 The first morse code transmission – “What hath God wrought?” – was from the Bible passage Numbers 23:23. In telegraphers code 23 means “break the line”.

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Weird, but you can’t just read one!

-23-

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XPfails – luggable – PLAXO acting differently

Tuesday, February 27, 2007

I was transferring my LinkedIn contact to my Outlook address book and Plaxo stopped check to to see if they were in Plaxo. Strange?

Update at 0930: plaxo has returned to operating as expected. Perhaps, their site was “down”. If not site, service? And, there’s no idication in the LookOut client that an add in is dead? Interesting that perhaps is the reason for all the non-responding stuff. 

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TECHNOLOGY: Software, who owns what and how do you prove it and use it

Tuesday, February 27, 2007

I was thinking last night that the computer user is in a very weak position as opposed to the software makers.

Microsoft imposes all sorts of limitation on what I have bought and really wants me to rebuy what I already have.

There is the whole “installation” nonsense. Why does software have to be “installed”. Good software, by my definition, just runs. Copy it here, it runs. Copy it there, it runs. I like that “portable” movement.

Then, there is the who serial number, or product key, nonsense. So, I may have bout it, have the distribution media, but if I’ve lost the serial number or misplaced it, I’m dead.

Finally, there is the Activation monster. Activation, Windows Genuine Advantage, and such all conspire to make my life miserable. My personal desktop at home, TYNETOP, has been flag several times by these things. It’ sitting with a McAfee induced error in the registry which periodically offends the Microsoft Gods. I’ve had to call a few times to get it to “reactivate”. And don’t believe the barbara striesand about major changes. That pig hasn’t had any new lipstick for a long time.

So, I’m mad and have no way to discharge the madness, except by blogging about it.

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PRODUCTIVITY: WINROT is rapidly making LUGABLE unusable

Tuesday, February 27, 2007

I’m being forced to consider a “bare metal” restore (i.e., wipe everything clean and start over).

And, in thinking about it, perhaps I should buy a new hard drive for luggable and swap it in for my bare metal restore. That’s one way to ensure that I can always fall back should a critical file be missed. After a good restore, (an how does one ever know that you did it all), I could probably get one of those external usb disk drive cases to save the value of the drive.

Argh!

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