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45 seconds! ROFL. Maybe this is what the Pope was thinking about!
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
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POLITICS: Malia Obama’s offensive T-shirt
Monday, July 13, 2009Miss Obama’s peacenik T-shirt sends a message to G8 leaders
By Charlotte Spratt
Last updated at 9:35 AM on 09th July 2009
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Her father had just won agreement from the Russians to cut back on the world’s stockpiles of nuclear weapons.
And Barack Obama’s eldest daughter was obviously keen to make her own statement on the issue – even if it was merely a fashion statement.
Just 48 hours after the U.S. President signed agreements with Russian president Dmitry Medvedev to reduce weapon stores, 11-year-old Malia Obama was spotted wearing not one, but two T-shirts with an anti-nuclear message.
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Correct me if I’m wrong but aren’t politician’s children SUPPOSED to be off limits.
And, also correct me if I’m wrong, but that’s originally the Hippie anti-Catholic emblem from San Francisco (i.e., the broken upside down cross).
Is Obama using his children?
He’s certainly not controlling the political message that they are wearing?
Makes them a legitimate target for political controversy.
And, a good Christian father, smart and well educated, would know EXACTLY what the symbolism is.
Besides, 11 year old children don’t buy their own clothes.
Sorry, but this stinks.
I object to politicizing children. I object to the symbol. I object to the manipulation.
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TECHNOLOGY: MAGICJACK (NOT RECOMENDED)
Monday, July 13, 2009Playing with MagicJack.
A very expensive McBa
add
MagicJack
add
Verizon Wireless Broad Band
add
a $10 Radio Shack phone
EQUALS
A phone booth?
A cell phone?
A free Local and Long Distance phone?
Hmmm?
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Notes:
It didn’t go together as easy as they make it sound.
The user interface isn’t as user friendly as it could be.
The FAQ is difficult to navigate and may need some filling out.
Powered USB hub is fine. Although that is NOT clear, the device is labeled “no hubs”.
We’ll see if it’s useful.
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OBSERVATION: No way to import all your phone numbers. No way to use a directory (i.e., Apple’s Address Book or Microsoft Outlook).
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FINAL UPDATE: NOT RECOMMENDED
Gave it a live test and I could hear the drop outs. So could the other person.
RMA process is a hassle.
(And, that was from home with a real high speed line. Not Verizon Wireless Broad Band!)
Funny the McBa with VWBBIE performed better that a VISTA desktop and Comcast Broadband!
Oh well, it was a thought.
I guess you do get what you pay for.
Back to Skype and Google Voice.
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RANT: Customer (dis) Service?
Monday, July 13, 2009Booked a trip. (Yeah, I know. I too would rather go to the dentist than fly. Unavoidable. Have to check on a old family friend!)
Travel Agent got us seats outbound but couldn’t on the inbound return.
So I filled out the airline contact form. (Agonizing detail. Required fields alone took 10 minutes — estimated)
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My travel agent says that he’s unable to reserve seats on the return trip. That seems strange and very ‘un Swiss’. We’d like to have seats assigned.
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SEVERAL days later, I get this:
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Dear Mr Reinke,
Thank you for writing to us.
We have reviewed your request and wish to share the following information with you:
A specific seat will be assigned to you during the check-in process.
SWISS offers the following check-in options:
– Web check-in
– Self check-in machines
– Phone check-in
– Local check-in
For further details, please contact the following link on our website:
http://www.swiss.com/web/EN/services/checkin/Pages/checkin_overview.aspx
We wish you a pleasant flight with SWISS and are available to assist you at any time.
Sincerely yours
{Name withheld}
SWISS E-Mail Service Center-Team Basel
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ARGHHHHHHH!!!!!
I LOVE getting form email. It’s like some one presses response buttons randomly.
And, business wonder why customer HATE them!
{Just shaking my head}
Maybe I should call the 1800 number and have a nice man from Bangladesh read to me from his script. Probably read me the same answer!
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VETS: Brian Bradshaw overshadowed by Michael Jackson
Monday, July 13, 2009http://formerspook.blogspot.com/2009/07/remembering-real-hero.html
Remembering a Real Hero
from In From the Cold by Spook86
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Amid today’s orgy of adulation over Michael Jackson, we should pause and remember real heroes–men and women who paid the ultimate price for this nation, but whose lives go uncelebrated.
U.S. Army Lieutenant Brian Bradshaw was one of individuals. He died on June 25th, the same day that Michael Jackson passed away. But Lieutenant Bradshaw didn’t die in a Hollywood mansion from a drug-induced heart attack. He was killed on a road in Afghanistan, when his vehicle was targeted by an improvised explosive device.
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Well from now on anytime I hear “michael jackson” I will think of “Brian Bradshaw”! What about you?
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TECHNOLOGY: Some spammer tips his technique with spam to my domain
Sunday, July 12, 2009AN EMAIL TO A SECURITY GURU ACQUAINTANCE OF MINE
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Thought you’d find this interesting. As an old security guy, (well that’s what all the recruiters tell me, “too old”, and “50 is the new 90”. I’m “only” 62! Strange world we live in.), I am seeing a “new” form of spam.
Background: I run an alumni news blog / ezine / website. Never, ever any email address in it. Just news. “Joe Blow Class of 1970 died”, “Samantha Smith Class of 1980 promoted”, “Harry Potter Class of 1990 gets Hogswarth PhD”. Absolutely of little interest to other than alumni. I, of course, having too much time on my hands have our own domain. Jasper Jottings dot com.
Punchline: I am now seeing spam addressed to: Joe.Blow, blow.joe, blowj …, jblow, samantha.smith, smith.samantha, etc. etc. AT my domain name! Lots of it.
Conclusion: Someone is parsing the content. Extracting names. And, has a pretty sophisticated addressing mechanism.
Sidenote: Of course, the laughs on them because there are ZERO real people to read the spam. These are advertising commercial products. Not Nigerian benefactors, male / female enhancements, nor get rich quick schemes. But they are tech conferences, odd technology products, and tech books on amazon.
Observation: “Real” websites, for companies or business, with people named on the site are going to get slimed.
Just thought you’d enjoy this little wrinkle. Clearly we need IPv6 and authenticated email; replace SMTP once and for all. (Love to lead that effort for some one!) As I said, too much time on my hands.
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Love it when I find something new.
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POLITICS: No politics at work when it comes to spending for the recovery
Sunday, July 12, 2009http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-07-08-redblue_N.htm
Billions in aid go to areas that backed Obama in ’08
By Brad Heath, USA TODAY
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WASHINGTON — Billions of dollars in federal aid delivered directly to the local level to help revive the economy have gone overwhelmingly to places that supported President Obama in last year’s presidential election.
That aid — about $17 billion — is the first piece of the administration’s massive stimulus package that can be tracked locally. Much of it has followed a well-worn path to places that regularly collect a bigger share of federal grants and contracts, guided by formulas that have been in place for decades and leave little room for manipulation.
“There’s no politics at work when it comes to spending for the recovery,” White House spokesman Robert Gibbs says.
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Yeah, that’s a howler. Almost wet myself. Does anyone really believe these guys?
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WRITING: 10% discount on Church from Lulu
Sunday, July 12, 2009“It Started In Church – October 19th, 1962”,
or more simply “CHURCH 10●19●62”
http://www.itstartedinchurch.com
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LIBERTY: Free Speech and the British
Saturday, July 11, 2009
(Supplied by one of my networking colleagues!)
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INTERESTING: Big … empty … boxes
Saturday, July 11, 2009http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D998DVD80&show_article=1
As retailers cut back cities confront ‘ghostboxes’
Jul 5 01:15 PM US/Eastern
By JAMES MacPHERSON
Associated Press Writer
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BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Hundreds of anxious shoppers watched as city officials used power saws to cut 2-by-4s during Home Depot Inc.’s ribbon-cutting ceremony for its 102,700-square-foot building center in Bismarck. Less than three years later, the home improvement retailer shuttered the underperforming store, leaving a big orange empty eyesore on the outskirts of town.
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Interesting how the town bureaucrats treat the coomonwealth as their own little business. As if they had any investment in it. The taxpayers do; not them.
For those, that hate WalMart and the other big box stores, seems the way to keep them out is to have a “rip it out if you close” law.
Love it.
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