FROM AN EMAIL EXCHANGE WITH A FELLOW ALUM
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>I googled my name and your website came up.
It’s always a good idea to google yourself to find the “digital dirt” that’s out there. I counsel out of work execs to do it and get out in front anything there. Even if it’s not “you”, it has to be addressed.
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I even have search strings saved that post to special mail accounts that watch for the use of “my name”. How paranoid is that?
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http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0406/p11s03-algn.html
Booking your own private library
For a modest annual fee, book lovers can enjoy memberships at such venerable sanctums as the Boston Athenaeum.
By Teresa Méndez | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
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The Boston Athenaeum, dating back to 1807, is the country’s largest such institution, with 600,000 volumes (in addition to more than 500 pieces of art) and 5,000 members. Stepping through its red leather doors at 10-1/2 Beacon Street is a little like falling down Alice’s rabbit hole. Within the 12-story structure, now in the throes of its 200th birthday party, lies an elegant hodgepodge – part library, part museum, part gallery. There is little delineation between where one part leaves off and the next begins: Paintings hang in every room, busts are nestled between bookshelves, and the books themselves – colorful, leatherbound – are works of art.
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Amazing. I didn’t know this. A non gooferment library!
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http://www.kansascity.com/159/story/66339.html
Posted on Wed, Apr. 11, 2007
Imus isn’t the real bad guy
Instead of wasting time on irrelevant shock jock, black leaders need to be fighting a growing gangster culture.
By JASON WHITLOCK
Columnist
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I don’t listen or watch Imus’ show regularly. Has he at any point glorified selling crack cocaine to black women? Has he celebrated black men shooting each other randomly? Has he suggested in any way that it’s cool to be a baby-daddy rather than a husband and a parent? Does he tell his listeners that they’re suckers for pursuing education and that they’re selling out their race if they do?
When Imus does any of that, call me and I’ll get upset. Until then, he is what he is — a washed-up shock jock who is very easy to ignore when you’re not looking to be made a victim.
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Here’s a fellow who nails why the RU women should have taken the high road imho.
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Now, I don’t wish harm on anyone. And I pray for a speedy recovery … even if he is a socialist.
http://apnews.myway.com//article/20070413/D8OFQRNG0.html
N.J. Governor Critical After SUV Crash
Apr 13, 12:19 PM (ET)
By GEOFF MULVIHILL
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CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) – Gov. Jon S. Corzine was apparently not wearing his seat belt as required by law when his official SUV crashed into a guard rail, leaving the governor hospitalized in critical condition, a spokesman said Friday.
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I guess his security detail won’t get any doughnuts for a while.
What was he doing in Atlantic City?
Why was he going to the RU – Imus meeting? Did he think that these ladies couldn’t take care of one old washed up guy? Perhaps, he was going as the chief law enforcement officer to protect Imus from RU?
(I suspect it was a photo op!)
I wonder if he will give himself a 46$ ticket.
No one has said how fast anyone was going. Speed limit is probably 65. Take a lot of energy to throw an suv like that.
I’ve ranted before about the state and its minions on the roads before. This is just another example of it.
Now the Guv’s detail is usually two cars and bunch of troopers. And, the white truck disappeared like the fellow on the grassy knoll. Maybe they’d just prefer him to get away so there’s be no conflicting stories. Hard to believe a pick up truck could escape a trooper chase car.
Was their video in any of the cars? Maybe there was some careless and reckless going on unrelated to the mythical white truck.
Why do we have a governor anyway?
Now we will hear the drumbeat of why we need a Looney Tennent Guv. It’s not like we don’t have spare politicians running around with nothing to do. Maybe we could get mcGreasy and Wittless to combine as a caretaker office of “governors past”. At least we get something for the obscene pension they are collecting.
And what’s wrong with Cody doing double duty? It’s not like there are separation of powers issues. Just pass around the rubber stamps as usual.
Any way, I wish the Guv a speedy recovery. I have more questions about Karla-gate that he can refuse to answer.
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Highrise
Your address book doesn’t do enough. Traditional CRM software tries to do too much. Highrise is the just-right solution.
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Your address book doesn’t do enough. Traditional CRM (Customer Relationship Management) software tries to do too much. That’s why we built Highrise. It’s the just-right, more thoughtful way to keep track of the people, conversations, and tasks that are the lifelines of your business.
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Well it ain’t cheap that’s for sure. Too steep for me.
I gave it a quick look and though that only VCFs in would be a problem.
But what do I know.
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Good thing the Guv is OOC (Out Of Commission).
This morning’s “news” reported that RU cut 6 teams including fencing. “outraged” students and parents were looking for “gooferment action” to prevent it.
Hey, guess what, RU is the “gooferment”.
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Pretty sad. But I read my spam comments on my blog. Sad, when the spammers are the nicest things I hear all day. :-) Clearly, “we” need a life and better system for securing the internet. Till then AKISMET does a very nice job of identifying the trash.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk
/health/article1647517.ece
From The Times
April 13, 2007
‘Fat’ gene found by scientists
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A gene that contributes to obesity has been identified for the first time, promising to explain why some people easily put on weight while others with similar lifestyles stay slim.
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Ahh to misquote Shakespeare, “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in ourselves, but in the genes”. Another double malted please!
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Posted by reinkefj
Today is the day the Titanic sunk in 1912.
There has to be a leadership lesson in that.
Never proclaim anything as “unsinkable”?
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http://techsupportalert.com/issues/al_current.htm
Gizmo
Ian Richards
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6.1 A Free Utility That Stops Programs From Hogging Your PC
It was driving me mad. My laptop would sporadically run at 100% CPU utilization and lock up. It defied all attempts at analysis as the PC was seized and I couldn’t do anything. Only a hard reboot was possible, but on rebooting the problem was gone.
Eventually I solved it with a superb little utility called Process Tamer, written by “Mouser” over at Donation Coder. Process Tamer is a monitor that watches the CPU utilization of all running processes. Once the usage of a single process gets above a certain level (by default 70%) Process Tamer reduces the usage by lowering the process priority.
It’s a simple idea and Process Tamer implements it immaculately. With Process Tamer installed, the next time the problem occurred on my laptop it didn’t totally lock up but rather just ran very slowly. This allowed me to do a quick diagnosis. The problem turned out to be simple but non-obvious. Two programs, Diskeeper and X1, had been accidentally scheduled to start at the same time and were getting into an embrace of death. It was unexpected, as these two normally peacefully co-exist. Simply re-scheduling the programs to start at different times solved the problem.
I couldn’t have solved the problem as easily without Process Tamer. However Process Tamer has much broader application than just this kind of problem.
It’s a great tool for preventing any one program from hogging your processor. Every user has experienced the situation where their PC has been slowed down to the point of being unusable, by a background program such as a desktop search program, that starts and takes all the resources. Process Tamer will stop that from ever happening again.
For the same reason it can also help speed up your Windows Startup. Make sure though, that you enable Process Tamer to start automatically with Windows. By default it does not, but it’s easily changed from within the program’s options.
Yet another use for Process Tamer is intra-server load balancing. It’s near ideal for this task.
If you actually want a program to able to use all available resources, such as a digital editing program, you can set the program to be excluded from Process Tamer’s watchful eye.
I was so impressed with Process Tamer that I’ve permanently installed it on my laptop. It takes only around 6MB of memory space and its own CPU usage is so low I could barely measure it.
Process Tamer is available for free from the Donation Coder site. They use a novel licensing system: you have to register to get a free license key which allows you to download any number of programs on the site. This key lasts six months after which you must return to the site to download another free license key. After a year you are given a permanent license. Alternatively, you can make a once-up donation of any size and get a permanent key straight away. It’s a clever and ethical way to encourage users to recognize the work done by freeware authors and I support it fully. I donated generously and I hope you do too.
Donationware, Windows 2K, XP, 2.23MB
http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mouser/proctamer/index.html
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Hmmm, may be useful to put in place.
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