TECHNOLOGY: PLAXO acts flakey tonight

Sunday, March 4, 2007

http://www.plaxo.com

I like Plaxo for it’s ability to sync my Outlook with their most current info.

One thing I do on Sunday nights is “collect” all my new LinkedIn contacts and put them into my Outlook. As part of that process, I check for their plaxo status. If they’re not in Plaxo, I send them an invite. Most times it’s ignored but about a quarter pick it up.

Tonight, Plaxo must be offline tonight. The plaxo invite mechanism did show up with every contact. I focused on the first contact as being the one with the flakeyest invitation mechanism.

Hopefully stuff will be better on the morrow. Sigh, I can break everything.


JOBSEARCH: It’s NOT you!

Sunday, March 4, 2007

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JOBSEARCH:: How this fellow Became a Big Wheel

Sunday, March 4, 2007

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17030580/site/newsweek/

http://tinyurl.com/2655bb

How I Became a Big Wheel

Let go by IBM and deeply in debt, a family man turned his childhood passion for unicycles into a thriving online start-up.

By John Drummond Newsweek

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It was supposed to be a hobby—just a part-time thing to generate a little extra money. We didn’t think we could make a living at it. I thought I would work at IBM for 30 years and retire, just as my father had. At that point I had only seven to go. The dot-com bust began in early 1999, about the same time we launched Unicycle.com. The odds seemed stacked against us. Online companies were folding. We had no experience running a company. Amy was an at-home mom to our three boys. I had just earned a degree in journalism by attending college at night. We were deeply in debt.

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Necessity is … …

That is the power of the internet to transform our world.

If you don’t have a second business that is working, then you better have ones that you are trying.

I have FOUR in various stages of incubation.

Even if they all tank, I’ll know what doesn’t work.


LIBERTY: Another call for the separation of school and state!

Sunday, March 4, 2007

http://reinkefj.newsvine.com/_news/2007/03/04/
597680-a-call-for-separation-of-school-and-
state-the-boston-globe

http://tinyurl.com/yw3mb3

A call for separation of school and state
The Boston Globe
Seeded on Sun Mar 4, 2007 11:14 AM EST
politics, constitution, libertarian, libertarians, government-schools

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Once Americans may have agreed on what children should be taught, but that day is long gone. On any number of fundamental issues, parents today are sharply divided, and there is no way a government-run, one-curriculum-fits-all education system can satisfy all sides. The only way to end the political battles over schooling is to depoliticize the schools. And the only way to do that is to separate school and state.

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Clearly, the gooferment is pursuing its own agenda. Or, that of the 1920’s socialists who wanted a nation of good soldiers / compliant factory workers.

If the state skool can indoctrinate children with what ever the State feels is appropriate, then isn’t it immoral to force the parents to pay for an education that they morally object to. And, then by extension, isn’t it immoral for the State to force anyone to pay for a service that they object to.

If the State is my agent to whom I empower to act on my behalf, I can not give it powers that I don’t have. If all men are endowed by their Creator with the same rights that I have, then no one has a right that I don’t have. So if I can’t do it, then no amount of adding others, like me, doesn’t give the State any different power then I would have acting alone.

I can’t force some one’s child to go to my school, then the State can’t force parents to do it.

I can’t force you to give me money even if I call it taxes, neither can the State.

It is all just immoral. As well as being ineffective, inefficient, and just wrong.


INTERESTING: Reworking the Police Profession

Sunday, March 4, 2007

Cutting out the “mickey mouse” by over enforcement?

read more | digg story

Interesting that a “private development” “owns” their own roads and the police are limited to what they can enforce.

May need a little tuning? But  a great idea. Like the roads and parking lots at Disneyland, there’s no reason why roads have to belong to the gooferment!

On a technical note: This is one of my first uses of the DIGG “blog about it” function. I’m not sure I like it, but I’ll try anything.

Your thoughts?


FUN: Funny cute

Sunday, March 4, 2007

http://luminouslogic.com/foreign-wife-isms.htm

Foreign Wife-isms

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My wife is an American citizen by birth. But her father was in the foreign service and therefore most of her formative years were spent outside of the US. Her first language was Japanese, then some English while briefly in D.C., on to French in the Côte d’Ivoire, then German in Austria…

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Very funny.

I especially liked “pit spot”.

And, if some Thai person listened to me back when I was learning or “learned it”, then they’d have been in hysterics as well.

(Insert “flying kites” story here from Thai language school.)


TECHNOLOGY: Dealing with blog comment spam

Sunday, March 4, 2007

Dear Word Press Support: I notice you’re closed again. Freeloader Ferd here with a possible suggestion. And need to catch it before I lose it. I notice that there are some invalid ips in the spam. Could that be used to snag them? Also the email address in messages seem to have a pattern and bounce where tried. Is there an email address look up function? Sort of like ping for email? At the very least the domain could be validated. Just thinking, fjohn a free user.

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Georgia | j9fvfolrd@freemail.com | IP: 202.171.135.2090
Nice site and fine content
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