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“…a free website to help you brainstorm and organize ideas online.” “In traditional brainstorming, or “mind mapping”, one writes a central idea on a piece of paper, draws a circle around it and starts branching off with new ideas, creating a free form diagram.”
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Playing with it and it seem to be intuitive.
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http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8T5RPP01&show_article=1
Anthem Skipped Before Monday Night Game
Nov 27 02:42 AM US/Eastern
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Roethlisberger Relieved to Get Win in Mud Bowl
PITTSBURGH (AP) – Sports in America start with the national anthem. The Dolphins- Steelers game was an exception.
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Except if it conflicts with the needs of television.
Now I’m not a fan of the faux patriotism of the NFL, MBA, and all the other sports. They are no more “patriotic” than the vending machine. If the rubes want to be fooled, then they are more than happy to put it in the “show”. It has nothing to do with “sports” or anything other than turning a buck.
Let’s not kid ourselves.
The Mouse’s only interest is in the “cheese”.
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Does anyone else not like how the number of your LinkedIn contacts can change silently?
I come form a “production mentality”. If my database has a 1,000 records, then tomorrow it should have 999. This “silent disconnect” feature makes me wonder if LinkedIn didn’t just drop one by accident.
Argh!
What’s the big deal of sending me a message that “Joe Blow dropped you like a dead fish”? They send messages for everything else!
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http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=2007-11-25_D8T4MV7G1&show_article=1&cat=breaking
Court to Consider Investor’s 401(k) Suit
Nov 25 08:48 AM US/Eastern
By PETE YOST
Associated Press Writer
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WASHINGTON (AP) – James LaRue says he lost $150,000 when his instructions to his employer on where to invest money in his retirement plan were ignored. Now the Supreme Court will decide whether a federal pension-protection law gives LaRue the right to sue to recover his losses. Arguments in the case were scheduled for Monday.
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This is a interesting development.
Ignoring for the moment that the gooferment court will decide just how much trouble a corporation, another gooferment created entity, can get into. Of course, there are lawyers abundant as far as the eye can see.
More to the point:
(1) Why are there such things as 401ks?
(2) Why would you expect a business to be involved in YOUR retirement?
(3) Why is the gooferment “protecting” both sides? (Allowing the corporation off the hook if it’s not “criminal” while pretending to regulate the “industry”.)
Now clearly, the roles and motivations of the individual, the employer, a slew of other corporations, the gooferment, and bunch of lawyers are all muddled together. Time to cut the Gordian Know and simplify!
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Posted by reinkefj
The recent demise of a fellow Prepster shocked me. I found that his domain had not been renewed two months before his death. As a techie, that brings up an interesting question.
What happens to all my “stuff” when I’m not here to maintain it?
My domain names, web pages, email accounts …, you know, stuff!
Interesting that there is no failure mode, pre-programmed.
Have to think more about that depressing thought.
Like the GMail and Yahoo acounts of the recently killed soldiers in Iraq. All my passwords would NOT die with me since I have them in ROBOFORM.
But who knows the ROBOFORM master password? No one.
My fob has my “keys to the kingdom”. But someone would need that and the master password.
Have to think more about that!
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