Novel MV is my next writing priority. While others are closer to the finished line, this one is probably the one that excites me the most. Having seen the blog2book output, it’s the one that I’d like to see next. I’m energized to make it my highest “hobby” priority.
WRITING: NOVELMV2BOOK project – Gearing up
Monday, February 5, 2007
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JOBSEARCH: LINKEDIN_NEW_JERSEY is rolling
Monday, February 5, 2007http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/LINKEDIN_NEW_JERSEY/
LINKEDIN_NEW_JERSEY
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LINKEDIN_NEW_JERSEY is a jumping off point for finding LinkedIn groups forming or formed in New Jersey.
In order to join this group, you have to connect with the owner or moderators. (We don’t have any moderators yet. No one has volunteered.) Send your LinkedIn Connection Invitation to reinke fj — at — spam yahoo dot com. After of course taking out that part of the address that is to defeat the harvesting bots. ;-) As soon as your connect and application emails show up, I’ll admit you to this exclusive — as exclusive as all those who get wet in the rain may apply — group.
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I invited all my LinkedIn contacts to it; Either to participate because they are in New Jersey or to steal the idea for their own Yahoo LinkedIn SomeAtrribute Group. Let’s see if it gets traction.
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TECHNOLOGY: My security observation included
Monday, February 5, 2007http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/24.56.html
RISKS-LIST: Risks-Forum Digest Sunday 4 February 2007 Volume 24 : Issue 56
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Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 20:28:34 -0500
From: “Reinke’s Catch All Email”
Subject: A second site “improves” security
A second site, Paytrust, has followed Vanguard, in “improving” security. They now have one screen for userid and then a second screen for password. The theory is that if I don’t see my selected picture and secret phrase on the screen then I shouldn’t enter my password.
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Peter G. Neumann is the of Risks and the chairman of ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy. I was honored to have my security observation included in his ezine.
Nice to know my mind hasn’t gone totally to mush.
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RANT: CBS put an ad in front of all the SuperBowl commercials on the web
Monday, February 5, 2007It wouldn’t be SO bad, but (1) they didn’t tell you; AND (2) it’s the same ad! Argh!
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WRITING: Perhaps a blog should be in a single genre
Monday, February 5, 2007Maybe having a personal web log (i.e., a blog) should only cover one category? Instead of “Reinke Faces Life” where all is jumbled together, maybe it would be better to have several blogs all related to a singe category (i.e., Reinke’s Political Rants, … Technology …, … Rant Rants)? It’s probably not much more work. Probably not much more effort. You might get confused. And what about cross posting. A rant about a politicians abuse of technology who’s an alumni. ;-) Heresy!
RANT: NJ State Government … corrupt to the core.
Monday, February 5, 2007Jim G. on 1015 is exposing the slugs ‘n’ thugs in Trenton for the hippo-crits they are. (Hippo = a large dangerous animal and “crit” for the gang like the bloods)!! In Jim’s rant, he points out that they are trying to pull the wool over the taxpayer’s eyes. When you disassemble the “tax cut”, it is meaningless.
He also picked up another “drum”. PA is bigger and has more people than NJ, yet their state budget is about a third less than “our”.
This of course overlooks the moral argument. What give you the right to rob me to pay for your kid’s education? What gives the State the right to run “education” which is merely brainwashing future “citizens”? And why is the State permitted to run such an inefficient operation with so much corruption?
The answer: They have the guns!
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WRITING: Newsvine seems like a better use of my time
Sunday, February 4, 2007
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XPfails – luggable – Microsoft WORD kludges my doc
Saturday, February 3, 2007I was doing the alumni ezine. As I was finishing the index, poof! WORD decided I needed a new page placed along side the first page. In effect, it folded my doc as if it was a two column newspaper.
I fired up Open Office and could see some of the problems.
I wriggled around like a dead fish.
Finally I had the idea of saving it as an RTF. That didn’t clear the problem but it put me on the track of a solution.
I saved it as WORD60 format. Then, when I reopened it I could delete the break.
Argh.
Very very ugly.
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RANT: “ostensibly competitors in the recording industry, are a cartel acting collusively”
Friday, February 2, 2007http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/55483.html
Teen Strikes Back in Clash With Record Labels
By Jim Fitzgerald
AP
01/31/07 9:36 AM PT
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Robert Santangelo, 16, his sister and his mother have all been sued by record companies for allegedly sharing music files illegally. Now Santangelo has struck back, raising a 32-point defense, demanding a jury trial and filing a counterclaim against the companies that accuses them of damaging his reputation and conspiring to defraud the courts of the United States.
A 16-year-old boy being sued by five record companies accusing him of online music piracy accused the recording industry on Tuesday of violating antitrust laws, conspiring to defraud the courts and making extortionate threats.
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Robert Santangelo also claims that the record companies, which have filed more than 18,000 piracy lawsuits in federal courts, “have engaged in a wide-ranging conspiracy to defraud the courts of the United States.”
The papers allege that the companies, “ostensibly competitors in the recording industry, are a cartel acting collusively in violation of the antitrust laws and public policy” by bringing the piracy cases jointly and using the same agency “to make extortionate threats … to force defendants to pay.”
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Way to go kid!
That’s punching the big bully right in the nose.
What’s more, if I was on your jury, I’d give you punitive damages.
Hit with a RICO charge. Level the playing field.
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ALUMNI: Another idea!
Friday, February 2, 2007
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LIBERTY: Minimum Wage Means Minimum Jobs or Laughing at the fools in DC.
Friday, February 2, 2007http://www.goldwaterinstitute.org/aboutus/ArticleView.aspx?id=1390
Center for Economic Prosperity
Minimum Wage Means Minimum Jobs
Raising the minimum wage hurts workers at the lower end of the pay scale.
Goldwater Institute Today’s News
February 01, 2007
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Yup, all we have to do is get the people laughing at the stupidity of government and it’ll topple of its own weight.
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TECHNOLOGY: Surfing net is top pastime for elderly
Friday, February 2, 2007http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?
xml=/news/2007/02/02/net02.xml
Surfing net is top pastime for elderly
By David Derbyshire, Consumer Affairs Editor
Last Updated: 1:51am GMT 02/02/2007
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Browsing the internet has overtaken DIY and gardening to become the favourite pastime of older people, according to a survey. The current generation of “silver surfers” spends an average of six hours online each week, research by the insurance company AXA found.
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“on the internet no one knows you’re a dog”
to quote a famous New Yorker magazine cartoon. Nor do they know you are old.
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TECHNOLOGY: SKYPE me (reinkefj) for free.
Thursday, February 1, 2007http://www.skype.com/helloagain.html
SKYPE
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Call other people on Skype and it’s free – anywhere in the world.
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WordPress doesn’t make it easy. There’s nothing that I can put on the blog that will make it easy for you to tap one icon, get skype, install it if needed, call me, and talk to me free.
You can get it and install it. Then skype me as “reinkefj”, or “732-917-4816” is my skype phone number.
(Or you can Yahoo me at reinkefj or 609-489-5893!)
I’m just playing around and love to try technology.
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MONEY: Could the negative savings rate be due to a hidden inflation?
Thursday, February 1, 20072006 Personal Savings Drop to 74-Yr. Low
By MARTIN CRUTSINGER
AP Economics Writer
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WASHINGTON (AP) — People once again spent everything they made and then some last year, pushing the personal savings rate to the lowest level since the Great Depression more than seven decades ago.
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Now we know that the FED (The Federal Reserve Bank which is neither Federal, a Reserve, or a Bank) tells us there is no inflation. We know the politicians tells us there is no inflation. And, we know that we are not in the Jimmy Carter era of runaway 18% inflation.
But, could one explanation for the negative savings rate be that there is an underlying belief that cash is crap?
Why save if tomorrow will be worse than today in buying power?
Could we be seeing the marketplace discounting for an expected future inflation?
In a variation of the “Customer is always right”, the marketplace is always right.
If people are not saving, whatever the reason, they are “right”. Even when they are wrong, they’re “right”.
The cost of the war, the cost of social security, the cost of medicare, the cost of the drug benefit, the cost of all the social programs, and the cost of the TSA’s security kabuki dance is all going to come due.
Hmmm?
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FUN: The hedgehog with ‘global balding’ (2w3v84)
Thursday, February 1, 2007http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/
news.html?in_article_id=432937&in_page_id=1770
The hedgehog with ‘global balding’
Last updated at 21:38pm on 31st January 2007
A nice, soft fluffy coat is of little use to a hedgehog.
But poor old Glen is having to make do without any prickles – apparently thanks to global warming.
I’m not sure which is funnier. The poor animal who missed his nap. Or, the “climatologists” who have some more government programs and taxes to fix it!
p.s.: do pictures work?
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FUN: SUDOKU on the AARP site will help you learn how to play
Thursday, February 1, 2007http://www.uclick.com/client/mma/sudoc/
I’ve been playing a while. My personal opinion is I’m somewhere between “hard” and “evil”. My objective is to ward off dementia. Though some would say I’m already demented. I have shown many people that it’s really not a hard puzzle.
The AARP site allows you to turn on hints. That puts the possible combinations on the screen. You can then focus on the “rules” to find the right answer.
I only have one gripe. It’s not possible, or I couldn’t figure out how, to turn OFF a hint. If it thinks that 1 is possible for a cell and you KNOW by the rules that it isn’t there’s not way to nuke that little 1! Argh.
Otherwise, it is a good training site for learning.
On a technical note, the “put in all the values and start methodically erasing” technique has allowed me some success with the “evil” class of puzzle. But that’s for another blog posting.
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RANT: The Most Important Author of the 20th Century
Thursday, February 1, 2007The Most Important Author of the 20th Century
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Who is the most important author of the twentieth century? Why?
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Ludwig von Mises
IMHO he “nailed” socialism, and the big government, as the complete opposite of liberty and freedom. He kick started the Austrian School of Economics which is the opposite of Keynes’ socialism big government control. He brought the issues to the fore and challenged that Government is the problem. The enemy of freedom and liberty. And, that only in the marketplace is every need best satisfied. In one fell swoop, he pinpointed the reason why socialism can never succeed. The entrepreneur investing his own capital is infinitely responsive to the buyer’s demands. If he fails, he pays a severe price.
“A bureaucrat differs from a nonbureaucrat precisely because he is working in a field in which it is impossible to appraise the result of a man’s effort in terms of money.” – Bureaucracy
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