JOBSEARCH: JIBBERJOBBER credits me for a feature

Thursday, March 22, 2007

http://www.jibberjobber.com/
blog/archives/473

http://tinyurl.com/37hrth

Know What We Do Around Here All Day?
March 22nd, 2007

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Well… we’re not quite sure! :) But one thing we have as a top priority is making things better for you. That’s why you see improvements in JibberJobber on a regular basis. A couple of days ago we slipped some new features in and we wanted to make sure you knew about it. They may seem trivial (we have a huge – HUGE enhancement coming out in April/May) but they are nice “finishing touches” for you.

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Thing 3 – plays nice with TinyURL

At the bottom of the Add Network Contact page we have “services” … this is where you can say someone’s instant messenger is MSN (or IM), and their handle is hounddog@hotmail.com. Or their Skype ID is hounddog. Or their Yahoo handle for chatting is hounddog@yahoo.com.

Big thanks to John Reinke (who has a really, really good blog) for suggesting we add the ability to put in a TinyURL.

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Jason Alba has been listening to me whine about what I think a “seeker’s pim” should have. He generously credits me for his design of TINYURL and URL displaying. He’s very kind. I just told him what I didn’t like; he and his team incorporated that feedback. It’s a pleasure to have my whine be more than just a whine. All to often, it’s like the wolf baying at the moon. I guess the wolf feels better. But it doesn’t make the moon run away.

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ALUMNI: Control of educational institutions

Thursday, March 22, 2007

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/
WalterEWilliams/2007/
03/21/a_donor_with_backbone

http://tinyurl.com/ytqy92

A Donor with Backbone
By Walter E. Williams
Wednesday, March 21, 2007

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Some colleges have brazenly violated donor intent. Princeton University has been taken to court by the Robertson family for misuse of $207 million of a gift estimated at $700 million in today’s prices. Because they violated donor intent, Boston College, USC, UCLA, Harvard and Yale have been forced to return multimillion-dollar gifts. It’s high time that donors large and small summon some of Mr. McGlothlin’s courage and hold colleges accountable to standards of decency and honesty.

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I like how Professor Williams cuts to the center.

When we give money, as opposed to when we have it stolen via taxes from us, we have a moral obligation to “first, do no harm”. When we don’t supervise the donation’s use, we become complicit it the abuse.

The fact that these “schools” are really pseudo gooferment entities makes it even harder to control their behavior.

If they were truly private free market entities, the their “customers” could discipline them.

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PRODUCTIVITY: Use GMAIL to transform routine EMAIL into an RSS feed

Wednesday, March 21, 2007

http://lifehacker.com/software/gmail-tips/
get-rss-feeds-from-your-gmail-labels-157701.php

http://tinyurl.com/358ebr

Get RSS feeds from your Gmail labels

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There are many emails which I passively consume: newsletters, job vacancies, forums, mailing lists (on which I lurk), banking alerts, blog comments, bug tracking, and so on. These emails may require action, but the action does not (usually) involve replying to the sender.

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Interesting. Use RSS to get BLOGS. Use FEEDBLITZ to transform RSS into EMAIL. This proposes to take an RSS feed of routine EMAIL from GMAIL label.

Hmmm, a new way to handle routine email.

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PRODUCTIVITY: My first computer language. I could make it sing.

Tuesday, March 20, 2007

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/19/
obituaries/20cnd-backus.html

John W. Backus, 82, Fortran Developer, Dies
By STEVE LOHR
Published: March 19, 2007

John W. Backus, who assembled and led the I.B.M. team that created Fortran, the first widely used programming language, which helped open the door to modern computing, died on Saturday at his home in Ashland, Ore. He was 82.

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MONEY: Wise words

Tuesday, March 20, 2007

http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north518.html

Read in a Gray North article

“If your outgo is higher than your income, your upkeep will be your downfall.”

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XPfails – luggable – bringing up THUNDERBIRD for OUTLOOK

Tuesday, March 20, 2007

The failure of OUTLOOK is the final straw. I’m bringing up THUNDERBIRD to replace it. It found the Outlook contacts, but not the Accounts or Messages. Argh! This will be a heavy lift to get THUNDERBIRD into position. Then, I’m going to unload OUTLOOK messages for archive purposes. Then uninstall.

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TECHNOLOGY: The copyright laws are not going to survive

Monday, March 19, 2007

http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north517.html

College Fraternities vs. the Textbook Industry
by Gary North

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The copyright laws are not going to survive in their present form. Neither is the publishing industry.

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Concur.

Cheap foreign websites. Loaded by postal mail. Untraceable.

Can you spell paradigm shift?

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XPfails – luggable – OUTLOOK won’t send email

Monday, March 19, 2007

OUTLOOK won’t clear the outbox. Disabled Plaxo and LinkedIn toolbars.

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JOBSEARCH: the founder of Kinko’s is inspiring

Sunday, March 18, 2007

http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/
feature_wdesc.php?rec=4029

Paul Orfalea, the creative and inspiring founder of Kinko’s (now FedEx Kinko’s), discussed his theories and instincts on how to succeed, in business and in life in a program sponsored by the Science, Technology and Business Division.

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LIBERTY: There are very few “rights”.

Sunday, March 18, 2007

http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2007/
Mar-18-Sun-2007/opinion/12913879.html

http://tinyurl.com/34rvnx

Mar. 18, 2007
VIN SUPRYNOWICZ:
How will collectivists enforce this new ‘right’ to housing?

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Ms. Unzueta likely means to loot even more money from my paycheck and yours — extending our slavery in violation of the 13th Amendment for that one-third to one-half of the year that we now sharecrop just to “pay our taxes” — thus forcing you and me to fund nice homes for these lazy drunks and drug addicts.

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Vin nails it. When some one has a “right” to something, who pays for that right?

I would assert that we are now virtual slaves to the government. One can’t even guess at the “taxes” we pay. Inflation is a heavy tax on our savings. Unfunded mandates are a tax. The increase cost of things due to diktats from the gooferment are a tax. Every tax a corporation pays is passed along to us disguised in the price. And, everything we buy has lots of gas taxes buried in the price. So, I can NOT even guess at how much tax we are paying.

As far as the “homeless”, when I was working in NYC and when I’d get panhandled, I’d offer food or the “business card” for a local Church (Saint Francis) where they helped the “homeless”. Once or twice my offer was accepted. I even saw a “legless” panhandler on the NYC subway who I later saw on standing on the Path going home to NJ after a hard day at work. I wish I had my camera.

No, there are very few “rights”. And, those rights we have, we have to be prepared to fight for mightly against the gooferment and the fuzzy thinkers of the left and right.

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