Today’s news on 1015 quoted Corzine as considering 4 measure to “increase revenue to close the budget gap”. I translate that to mean “steal more money at gun point form the unsuspecting”. Notice how lowering spending is never an option. How about: (1) eliminating state pensions by creating 401ks; (2) eliminate spending by an across the board cut; (3) nuke all the earmarks and other pork; and (4) roll back the tax increase represented by the 1% sales tax. That’s without getting on the big ticket items: (1) the dole and (2) the gubamint reeducation camps!
RANT: Never cut spending
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PRODUCTIVITY: Use TINYURL in innovative ways
Friday, February 9, 2007“seeing everything thru Joe and Harry’s window”
To which, I say YUDATL!
Now you say what the heck is YUDATL?
See I like tinyurl. Like many other url economizers, it takes long urls and smashes them down to size.
So
has a length of 110 characters and resulted in the following TinyURL which has a length of 25 characters:
Hence YUDATL.
I have a text file on my machine of tiny links. You’d be surprised at how useful this is.
So don’t give people long links. Or, when you give it over the phone, give the tiny link. It’s a lot less error prone.
You can also make a TinyUrl out of a mailto:crazyguy@theuniverse.org and that resultant short link will trigger an email.
Neat.
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TECHNOLOGY: DIIGO has some features for blogging
Friday, February 9, 2007- Social Annotation: Seamless Integration of Social Bookmarking, Web Highlighter, Sticky-Note & ClippingI
A tool for blogging input?
Usefulness tbd.
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PRODUCTIVITY: The wisdom of five year plans?
Friday, February 9, 2007Worked so well for the Soviet Union? Why shouldn’t I have one?
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GUNS: Even without MMD and SYG, victims have a RIGHT to defend themselves.
Thursday, February 8, 2007http://www.kotv.com/news/topstory/?id=119714
Intruder Killed By Homeowner Had Long Criminal History
KOTV – 2/5/2007 8:49 PM – Updated 2/8/2007 9:05 AM
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There are deadly consequences for a man police say tried to force his way in to an East Tulsa home. Now the question is will the shooting fall under the “Make My Day” law and protect the homeowner? News on 6 reporter Jennifer Loren reports on the latest in the investigation.
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That means Oklahoma’s “Make My Day” law will likely apply in this case. The “Make My Day” law allows people to use deadly force in their homes when they fear for their safety.
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The “Stand Your Ground” law extends victim’s protections to other locations, like a car. It also clarifies the law’s boundaries, so deadly force cannot be used against someone who has the right to be there.
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Now, where are all the bleeding heart liberals suggesting that the victim should have just dialed 911 and left it to the police?
I’m all for thinning the gene pool of the bad guys. And, I’m pro-life.
The Castle Doctrine, Make My Day, Stand Your Ground, and any other legal doctrines aside, I’ll stand by the old gun adage “better to be judged by 12, then carried by 6”.
Hope I’m on your jury should you fall afoul of the “victim disarmament” laws. Not they are not “gun control” laws.
“Gun Control” is EITHER hitting what you aim at OR keeping a careful inventory of the government’s arsenals.
I call laws that infringe on people’s natural right to arm themselves …
… … “unconstitutional”. Thus, null and void.
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TECHNOLOGY: Capture a webpage and act on it (e.g., email it)
Thursday, February 8, 2007Jump Knowledge
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Have you ever wished you could add your two cents to a site—anywhere you wanted—not just in an itty bitty blog area?
Have you ever wished you could email a web page with your comments inside it?
Then welcome to JumpKnowledge: to a world without limits, where the web is your canvas and you can paint your thoughts anywhere you want.
Isn’t it time you spread a little jump Knowledge?
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http://jkn.com/View?j=772318.592020301527
This seems like a nifty little freebie. I am not exactly sure that I understand it. But, it does allow the emailing of a capture page. I’m going to try it.
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TECHNOLOGY: Visual aid for the tiny fonts for the old turkeys like me
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Free! The nice screen magnifier, moves together with the cursor Windows, the overlay is used.
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This is a five gobble goble in my book.
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RANT: NJ wants to take DNA from those arrested
Thursday, February 8, 2007Today on 1015, the news reported that NJ wants to take DNA from those arrested (yes, arrested not convicted), for submission to the Feds.
Argh!
(1) Arrested, not convicted.
(2) It’s their body. It violates the most basic of human rights. Everyone owns their own bodies.
(3) This is the use of aggressive force.
(4) And the FED, STATES, and gooferment are so good at securing stuff.
(5) Do we really trust the gooferment with the essence of who we are?
(6) That essence will be sold to the drug companies and everyone who will fork over a few bucks.
(7) Slippery slope. Take it from babies. Match with the SSN. Now they can be “tracked”. “Vere isss yur paaapers?”
(8) Sure we “matched” your dna! We know that you killed Jack Kennedy from dna taken on the grassy knoll. Trust us, were the gooferment.
And, the prosecutor’s quote about making their job easier? Get a real job. You’re job is supposed to be difficult. You’re supposed to prove something.
And, did you believe the Barbara striesand about how they use dna to clear people. Right. Those prisons are just full of people proven innocent.
Sheesh, how dumb do you think we are? Pretty dumb.
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JOBSEARCH: How do you fit “work” into your real work!
Wednesday, February 7, 2007>”When do top networkers work?”
I don’t regard my self as a “very good networker”; some will argue with me that I’m better at it than they are. BUT I don’t regard that as an appraisal; just an urging to try harder. Some of my concepts are: differentiating “networks” by objective, measuring “days outstanding” by group, and “build it; they will come”. Those make me look more like a “very good networker” than the shy fellow I really am.
So, I can say that this mediocre networker works every chance he gets. I try to multitask, innovate, and use “power” whenever I can.
Part of the realization that I came to after I was fired for the first time, (Quite a shock to a kid who grew up with the concept of lifetime employment in a big company. Where only drunks, thieves, and philanderers were fired! So what was I? Just unlucky.), was that my most important “job” was finding my “next job”. If you adopt the “me, myself, and I incorporated” mentality, then networking is “working”. Finding the next job is the highest priority. Sorry to say that, even if you sacrifice the oft-cited kid’s softball game, dance recital, skool play, even if you give it “all” to mother company for that paycheck, even if you bleed company ink, it ain’t gonna matter when the layoff notices come.
You have to realize the cold hard facts.
=> You have to generate value to keep retaining value (You deserve a “pay check” today. Do You?). [[I think that was the ‘work” you were asking about!]]
=> You have to keep your head screwed on straight as to what is your long term value generation strategy (Where do I retain value tomorrow?).
=> You have to think about how you retain some of that value for yourself (No margin; no mission).
=> You have to think about WHERE you’ll find that situation that allows you to retain it (How will I sell myself?) going forward.
=> You have to ANTICIPATE what will change (Silent traumatic violent changes will upset your nice plans?) in the future.
IMHO “working” on one thing must be integrated, mutiltasked, folded into the overall activities of the day.
When someone is “networking”, then IMHO they are “working” on facets #2, #3, #4, and #5!
All I can say is that goodness for long boring mandatory attendance conference calls that give considerable time for introspection.
From my point of view, as a big fat old turkey,
Fjohn
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PRODUCTIVITY: Don’t sent to the “dog pound” by LinkedIn
Wednesday, February 7, 2007I notified 7 of my contacts that they have been “pounded”. I don’t think they could know that they had been “pounded” by any other method than by someone telling them. (The commercial “even you best friends won’t tell you” comes to mind. Yeah, I know, too much teevee!)
So why don’t you check your LinkedIn contacts and see if any are pounded. (Maybe I’ve been pounded and I don’t know it?) It seems like a cheap way to add value to your networking relationships.
Here’s what I sent:
Your profile has been sent to the “dog pound” by LinkedIn. I think you need to take some action on that, but I don’t know what to tell you.
Is Your Profile Ending Up In The Linkedin Dog Pound?
Posted by: “Vincent Wright”
Tue Nov 7, 2006 10:01 pm (PST)
Because of the way the symbol for it is pronounced, I think of the “#” Section of Linkedin’s Remove Connections as “The Dog Pound” . (Some may think this a good name for certain types of profiles. :-))
In case you’re not familiar with the “#” Section on Linkedin, it’s located at the end of the alphabetized list of your contacts at: http://www.linkedin.com/connections?displayBreakConnections
You and I cannot place any contacts in this area. Profiles are assigned there by Linkedin’s contact algorithm based on certain types of elements
being present in the name field – I believe.
Food For Thought: Some people may use this as a way to clean up “weak” connections en masse. If this happens, your profile may unintentionally be removed even by a connection who may know you pretty well as a “strong” connection.
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Thanks!
Vincent Wright
Chief Encouragement Officer
Feel free to steal!
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