Argh! Both Microsoft Word2003 and Open Office are locking up on my alumni ezine. Argh! I was able to finish with Zoho Web-based word processor. Saved the issue. Seems to work nicely.
XPfails – luggable – MSWORD AND OPENOFFICE is failing
Saturday, February 24, 2007
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WRITING: Lessons Learned?
Saturday, February 24, 20071. Why Letters Why Unknown Letters Why Collect Thoughts
2. Lessons Learned
3. The Shouldas, Wouldas, and Couldas
4. You Only Get One Life
5. “Start with the end in mind”
6. Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.
7. “By their fruits, so shall ye know them.”
8. The “monopoly money” dream
9. Diagnose the “hidden rules”
10. Trends versus Fads versus Enduring Values versus Principles
11. “Fun”
12. Habbits — ruts or grooves
13. Happiness, as well as success, is the state of a process aot a destination or a quality
14. Primitive “self reliance” & Robinson Crusoe
15. Data, Information, Knowledge, & Wisdom — Knowing what you don’t know
16. Cars & other depreciating assets
17. The habits you create today will be with you the rest of your life.
18. Follow DiVinci’s advice.
19. Do something with your other hand.
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INTERESTING: My “lessons” are one of my next books!
Saturday, February 24, 2007ALSO IN:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north511.html
Reflecting on 35 Years of Marriage
by Gary North
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If you have learned any other lessons, send them to me (at gary north –at– gary north dot com).
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Why that was one of my future publications! :-)
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LIBERTY: Ron Paul as President
Friday, February 23, 2007http://groups.google.com/group/DiggFreedom/browse_thread/
thread/736a75a194bd120c?hl=en
“because all the major candidates are deeply flawed. “
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The one candidate who has always talked about the real issues. This is great news. It will take a lot of effort by his supporters to give him a chance–he is not a friend of big corporations. When he was elected to Congress well over 90% of his support came from individuals. Anyone who is serious about seeing Ron Paul as President needs to be proactive.
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I can NOT imagine what a Ron Paul administration would be like.
But, I’d like to see it!
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GUNS: Can we “aim” the bears at the commissioner
Friday, February 23, 2007http://www.nj.com/sports/ledger/index.ssf?/base/
sports-0/1172209964102120.xml&coll=1
New game code delays bear hunt
Friday, February 23, 2007
BY FRED J. AUN
For the Star-Ledger
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In the proposed new state game code you’ll find this sentence: “There is a closed season for black bear until the commissioner approves a comprehensive policy for the protection and propagation of black bear.”
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And, if and when a bear hurts or kills a person or pet, what will happen to the commissioner?
Can you say “nothing”?
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TECHNOLOGY: Nuance at NW’s Cool Tools
Friday, February 23, 2007http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2007/
022607cooltools.html?page=1
Dragon voice recognition system
Cool Tools By Keith Shaw, Network World, 02/22/07
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This version seemed to work only with Windows 2000 and XP; we couldn’t try this on a new Windows Vista system, and it looked like Version 9 wouldn’t be available for Vista.
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I LOST NO TIME TELLING THEM HOW MUCH I THINK THEIR SUPPORT SUCKS!
Just don’t expect any support for your problems from Nuance Software. If you go for it and it happens to work on your windoze box, you’ve won the lottery. I have tried both Dragon and Via Voice, both “supported” by Nuance, and have had mixed results. Sometimes it works; sometimes it doesn’t. Just because you get it running, don’t think you’re home free. And, if you have problems, even if you pay their “per incident” support fee, don’t expect to get anything resembling an answer. If you have deduced that I think the “suck”, you’re right.
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INTERESTING: Use the web to start a biz
Friday, February 23, 2007http://www.nichegeek.com/
10_unconventional_but_successful_online_homebusiness_ideas
Interesting idea, but fraught with ne’er do wells.
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XPfails – luggable – GADWIN PRINT SCREEN v3.5 – It has to be XP!
Friday, February 23, 2007For some reason, after several months of use, now when I start GPS35, it doesn’t appear to “do” anything. It doesn’t splash. It takes memory. (I can see it in XP’s process list.) But, it just doesn’t do anything anymore. I’ve uniunstalled and reinstalled. Help?
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TECHNOLOGY: Why don’t people offer an OPML as opposed to a list
Thursday, February 22, 2007When discussing bloggers, why don’t people cite an OPML as opposed to a list?
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LIBERTY: Restore the 22nd as Washington’s birthday
Thursday, February 22, 2007http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/George%20Washington
George Washington
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Washington warns against foreign influence in domestic affairs and American meddling in European affairs. He warns against bitter partisanship in domestic politics and called for men to move beyond partisanship and serve the common good. He called for an America wholly free of foreign attachments, as the United States must concentrate only on American interests. He counseled friendship and commerce with all nations, but warned against involvement in European wars and entering into long-term alliances. The address quickly set American values regarding religion and foreign affairs, and his advice was often repeated in political discourse well into the twentieth century; not until the 1949 formation of NATO would the United States again sign a treaty of alliance with a foreign nation. Washington strictures against political parties were ignored at the time and ever since.
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Truly the greatest President.
Like the movie Lord of the Rings, he declined to take the “one ring that controls them all” and voluntarily relinquished power in the American Experiment when all wanted him to take it.
I think we have done him a vast disservice when we merged the tyrant Lincoln into shallow President’s Day.
I’d suggest that we restore February 22nd as Washington’s Birthday, delist Lincoln, and make it not a federal holiday, but a day when his writings are READ to every federal “employee”.
Arghhh!
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