PRODUCTIVITY: You need to own your own email!

Saturday, July 26, 2008

http://www.tuaw.com/2008/07/26/
unlucky-1-percent-of-mobileme-email-users-get-some-relief/

http://tinyurl.com/59f66y

Unlucky 1 percent of MobileMe email users may get relief
Posted Jul 26th 2008 9:00AM by TUAW Blogger
Filed under: Bad Apple, .Mac, MobileMe

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Apologies are well and good — but considering the MobileMe terms of service, that’s about all you can expect to see, as Apple isn’t liable for lost business or damages due to the outage. If there’s a lesson in this, maybe it’s that mission-critical users should own their own domains and public-facing email addresses, so that they can redirect incoming mail in a crisis. Depending on a single provider for mail (even ones with a reputation for reliability) can bite you.

Written by Michael Rose. Thanks to everyone who sent this in.

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I’ve ranted and raved about email control. Anyone, who is serious about computer using, needs to “own” this critical entry point into your world.

You need the capability to have a primary and alternate emil address. Buy one and use a free service if money is tight. If your primary goes out, then you need the capability to redirect to the alternative.

Note this means that your domain registrar, website provider, and email provider should NOT be the same entity.

And, you should never allow that all-importnt email address to be controlled by anyone. Companies get sold, go out of business, or just whimsically decide to change their names. You shouldn’t lose your email address because of this.

I made that mistake a long time ago with AT&T as my ISP. Never ever again.

reinke dot cc for me.

(Some day I plan to visit the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, an Australian territory.)

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TECHNOLOGY: LEGACY’s new look doesn’t FF3

Saturday, July 26, 2008

Interesting, in doing my Jasper Jottings, I am often on the LEGACY site picking up obits. In some obits, they force a new sexy front end. Only one problem, it doesn’t FF3. It just goes in an endless loop “loading”. Like the good inet denizen I am, I reported it. Wonder if I’ll ever get a response. Wonder if I’ll ever get a fix. Wonder if anyone other than me cares. P.S. When I hit that particular ‘brick wall’ i go around it by using SAFARI. Interesting?

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POLITICAL: Media “Objectivity”?

Friday, July 25, 2008
http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.
html?id=6e9f4a42-9540-4d99
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http://tinyurl.com/6eptr5

The New Republic
End of the Affair by Gabriel Sherman
Barack Obama and the press break up.
Post Date Thursday, July 24, 2008

Referring to New York Times chief political correspondent Adam Nagourney

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Later that afternoon, Nagourney got permission from Times editors to e-mail Sargent a response to the Obama memo. But the episode still grates. “I’ve never had an experience like this, with this campaign or others,” Nagourney tells me. “I thought they crossed the line. If you have a problem with a story I write, call me first. I’m a big boy. I can handle it. But they never called. They attacked me like I’m a political opponent.”

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The implication being that if one is not a “political opponent”, one is a “political ally”?

Gee, I thought reporters were supposed to at least pretent to be impartial.

I have no dog in this fight. I don’t care for EITHER candidate, but this is “humorous” at best!

Maybe that’s why the NYT is on the rocks financially?

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WRITING: TEOTWAWKI fiction — It happened in Church — Chapter Eighty One — Ant tiss a pation

Friday, July 25, 2008

It happened in Church – October 19, 1962
Chapter Eighty One – Ant tiss a pation

It Started In Church – October 19, 1962
http://www.itstartedinchurch.com

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TECH SERVICE: MUSICMATCH swallowed by YAHOO! BARFed back on the users!! Refund?

Thursday, July 24, 2008

http://weblog.infoworld.com/gripeline/archives/2008/07/yahoo_plays_def.html

The Gripe Line | Ed Foster » Yahoo plays defunct DRM tune
July 24, 2008 | Comments: (0)
Yahoo plays defunct DRM tune

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It’s getting to be an old song. This week the Yahoo Music Store sent a message to customers saying they will turn off their DRM servers after September, thus joining MSN Music, Sony’s Connect music store and other online music services in eventually cutting off customers who purchased DRM-wrapped tunes. And readers have no doubt it’s a song the movie, e-book, and software publishers are also going to be singing in the future.

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So, do they give us a refund for DESTROYING a perfectly good working piece of software that they replaced with a POS?

Yeah, like that’s going to happen!

FTC? DOJ? Political help? Yeah, like that’s going to happen!

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FITing: How many miles to recoup the cost?

Thursday, July 24, 2008

Counting things on the head of pin?

Counting things on the head of pin?

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RANT: Ron Paul on the Housing Bill 7/23/08

Thursday, July 24, 2008
Ron Paul on the Housing Bill 7/23/08
Source: http://www.youtube.com
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“The Mother of All Bailouts” Ron Paul talks about the bailout out of the housing industry and how it really just destroys the dollar and adds enormously to the debt. Also, slipped into the bill, was the stipulation that ALL credit card transactions must now be reported to the IRS. …

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POLITICAL: Smaller Government?

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

http://bostontea.us

barlow logo

Program of the Boston Tea Party
Adopted in Convention, August 21st, 2006

1. The Boston Tea Party calls for a complete and unconditional withdrawal of US troops from, and a cessation of US military operations against or within, Iraq.

2. The Boston Tea Party supports repeal of the USA PATRIOT Act.

3. The Boston Tea Party calls for an end to the federal prohibition of marijuana and hemp.

4. The Boston Tea Party calls for the immediate repeal of the REAL ID Act and any and all National ID plans.

5. The Boston Tea Party calls for legislation adopting an annual, regularized increase in the personal exemption to the federal income tax of $1,000 or more, and the additional application of said personal exemption to all FICA/Social Security taxes paid by employees and employers.

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WRITING: TEOTWAWKI fiction — It happened in Church – Chapter Eighty – Indian Giver

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

It happened in Church – October 19, 1962
Chapter Eighty – Indian Giver

It Started In Church – October 19, 1962
http://www.itstartedinchurch.com

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LIBERTY: the voice of the people?

Tuesday, July 22, 2008
confusing sentiment

confusing sentiment

While I don’t think drilling on Route 1 will yield much oil, I understand the author’s frustration with the political gang in charge. Any drilling will put the fear into OPEC that we are serious about our National Energey policy. Heck those politician might even get out of the way of folks who want nuclear power.

As far as “support our troops”, if they were mine, they’d be home now.

“Win the war; live in peace” is also confused. What war? Did Congress declare “war” and I didn’t hear about it?

Maybe the person meant all the other “wars” — War on (Some) Drugs, War on Poverty, War on Terror, War on Cigarettes, War on Honest Money, War on Education, War on War, … … think it’s an over used word?

Why don’t the Swiss have such problems? They MYOB!

In 1980, the voters elected Regan for smaller government; bigger government, higher taxes, lower tax rates. In 1988, they elected “No New Taxes” GHW Bush; higher taxes and spending. In 1992, they elected Clinton who promised a middle class tax cut; higher taxes and more spending. In 2000, they elected GW Bush for “compasionate conservatism” and a “humble foreign policy”; we got more government spending than Clinton, war around the globe, and facism here at home. (Been to an airport lately? It like a moive depicting the Nazis!) In 2006, the nation threw out the R’s to get peace; More war! In pre-Presidential primary polling, 70% of the nation wanted an end to the various “wars”; what do both political parties nominate — pro-war candidates.

So, I understand the author’s frustration.

We have to “Gandhi” the political gang in charge. Just laugh at them and call them out for what they are — tyrants, ruling at the barrel of a gun. Don’t think so? Try not paying their tribute or kowtowing to them. You’ll see who is the slave and who is the master really quick.

Hint: It ain’t you!

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