CLOUD: Google’s new “Remind Me”

Wednesday, September 4, 2013

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/08/check-out-googles-new-remind-me-feature-for-tv-shows-authors-and-more/

Check out Google’s new “Remind Me” feature for TV shows, authors, and more
Easily follow your favorite media properties in Google Now.
by Ron Amadeo – Aug 30 2013, 5:51pm EDT

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The “Remind Me” button works in search results on mobile and desktop, and the cards will show up in the Google search app for Android or iOS. You can view and remove your current reminder subscriptions from the “My Reminders” setting in Google Now or by searching for it again.

A reminders app is always useful, but a cloud-powered reminders app has more potential. Here’s hoping Google adds a bunch more supported categories (like sports teams). App integration would be great, too. Just scan my Play Music library for all favorite artists and add them as reminders. This should be live for everyone by now, so try searching!

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After the Google Reader fiasco, I am reluctant to get excited about ANY Google “service”.

Plus TV is dependent upon which market and service you’re in at any given time.

And, a “reminder” to watch TV is counter to the whole “turn of the boob tube” meme.

Now a better way to stalk … err, I mean, track Taylor Swift’s << @twsift13 #tswift13 #tswift >> activities. That could be useful to this fat old Swiftie.

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INTERESTING: Cold call victim’s revenge

Tuesday, September 3, 2013

http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/08/cold-call-victim-forces-telemarketers-to-pay-him-by-using-premium-number/

Cold call victim forces telemarketers to pay him by using premium number
“I want cold calls,” says man previously annoyed by telemarketers.
by Jon Brodkin – Aug 29 2013, 11:29am EDT

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A British man fed up with cold calls from telemarketers set up a premium phone number in November 2011 and has made £300 by accepting calls and keeping the annoying marketers on the line as long as possible.
Lee Beaumont, who works at home in Leeds, UK, was getting calls at all times of the day. “I thought there must be a way to make money off these phone calls,” he told the BBC. He searched on Google and found a small company that charged him £10 (about $15.50) to set up an 0871 line (equivalent to a 900 line in the US), which forces people who call him to pay 10p per minute. Of that, he receives 7p (about 10.9¢).

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Now there is one sharp cookie!

How do we set that up in the USA?

If the FCC really cared, they’d make this possible.

Yeah, right!

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RANT: Labor Day deaths!

Monday, September 2, 2013

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/09/01/6-people-including-2-children-killed-in-head-on-car-crash-in-pennsylvania/?test=latestnews

Look at the picture. 

The Bonneville was destroyed!

The Jeep seemed no where near as bad.

What speeds were involved?

Too do that much damage; 80, 90?

Argh!

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CLOUD: Yahoo keeps changing their UI

Monday, September 2, 2013

Argh!

Is there a rule that the UI of a cloud service has to change to something incomprehensible?

argh!

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OBSERVATION: Home remedy?

Sunday, September 1, 2013

Woke up last night with an annoying slight spree throat?

Post-nasal drip?

Cold? 

Smoke irritation?

Snoring?

Who knows.

Always found that dill pickles relieved the “itch”.

Any basis for this finding?

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RANT: Wrong House? BIG BUXS!

Sunday, September 1, 2013

Found this interesting link on the Drudge Report:

Another Bank Breaks Into Wrong House, Repossesses Woman’s Belongings – But This Time the Mistake Was Much Worse | Video | TheBlaze.com

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/08/29/another-bank-breaks-into-wrong-house-repossesses-womans-belongings-but-this-time-they-werent-even-in-the-right-town/

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Sorry, but this is theft! And, aggression.

I’d pull out the stops.

If I was the prosecutor, I’d indict everyone in the repossession company for not divulging the bank.

I start with asset forfeiture on everyone involved.

I’d get a dozen L3 interns to dream up causes of actions.

Add a zero or two onto the person’s actual losses as punitive.

Sorry, but I have little tolerance for this.

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RANT: No military action in Syria

Saturday, August 31, 2013

Subject: Defend America only. Do not manipulate or police the world.

http://www.downsizedc.org/etp/world-police/

Dear Politician:

Defend America only. Do not manipulate or police the world.

Take immediate action to prevent President Obama from launching any military action in Syria.

The President is trying to fix something that cannot be solved by outsiders dropping bombs. This will not protect innocent people. It will kill innocents. Their blood will be on the President’s hands, and on your hands, unless you use your powers to resist.

Take Sarah Pallin’s counsel: “Let Allah sort it out.”

Is it tragic? Yes. But to quote some way: “There are many problems in this world, and some of them are mine.”

Be like the Swiss: MYOB! Blessed are the peacemakers. Peacemakers don’t start wars.

Mr. Ferdinand Reinke

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Feel free to click over to DownSizeDC and write your own.

If you want to support the troops, bring them all home for Labor Day!

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GOLD: Gooferment can’t fool all of the people; even if they are illiterate!

Saturday, August 31, 2013

http://bullmarketthinking.com/indian-gold-dealer-gold-is-now-trading-at-1800oz-small-factories-and-workshops-are-shutting-down/

Indian Gold Dealer: “Gold Is Now Trading At $1800oz.—Small Factories And Workshops Are Shutting Down”
August 23, 2013 | By Tekoa Da Silva

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The gang acting as the “Gooferment of India” tried to suppress the free market. But the “free market” still tell the unvarnished truth!

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NH: The Free State Project

Friday, August 30, 2013

http://futuremoneytrends.com/blog/?p=5808

At Freedom Fest in July 2013, NH State Representative, Mark Warden, who is a Free State Project participant, small business owner and Realtor, was interviewed for the Future Money Trends blog. Says Warden: “The Free State Project is an amazing idea and concept that is just now coming to life.” You can read the transcript and watch the full interview

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“Yeah, thanks for asking. The Free State Project is an amazing idea and concept that is just now coming to life. It’s a geopolitical movement with liberty-minded people, we could call them “small l” libertarians, some anarchists, people who really truly believe in less government, lower taxes, and more individual freedom, are moving to the state of New Hampshire. The original concept would say, “Okay let’s choose a small state that’s relatively low population,” and the original people who that committed to make this move chose New Hampshire as the destination. So eventually we’ll get 20,000 people to move. Once we have 20,000 people who have signed up, then that triggers the move, and people will start moving. However, some of us didn’t want to wait that long and we just went. So I moved from Las Vegas, Nevada six years ago, and 1,200 others have moved from all over the country and other parts of the world to New Hampshire to bring about liberty in our lifetime.”

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NH: Central New Hampshire peaches

Thursday, August 29, 2013

http://kiddynamitesworld.com/movin-to-the-country-gonna-eat-a-lot-of-peaches/

Movin’ To the Country, Gonna Eat a Lot of Peaches

Posted by kid dynamite on August 25th, 2013

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If you’d told me that the tree fruit I’d have the most success growing in Central New Hampshire was peaches, I would have called you crazy – but you’d have been right.

While my apple trees that I planted a few years ago are looking terrible, my pear trees got destroyed by an unknown assailant, and my apricot tree went from looking-like-it-was-thriving to I-think-it’s-totally-dead in a span of 3 rainy weeks this spring, my 2 peach trees have been steady producers for the second year in a row.

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Since I am going to New Hampshire soon — as soon as I can or no later than after the Free State Project gets the last of its 20k movers — and I’ve been thinking I’d like to “buy the farm”.

In a literal sense; not the military sense.

But in some respects, this will be my LAST move.

Teach, politics, and / or maybe farm.

My model will be George Washington. (Now all I need is a rich widow!)

I found this instructive since I was figuring fruit was “easy”.

Maybe pineapples?

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