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HowLong2It
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HowLong2It is a way to keep track of how many days since some date in the past and how many days until some date in the future. The applications is always only a click away. Click on the tray icon and the status window will popup to show you the dates/tasks you are tracking.
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Might be useful if you have a real deadline. Donation ware!
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http://www.appsapps.info/anotheronedone.php
AnotherOneDone
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AnotherOneDone
What it does:
Helps you keep track of your progress with a numerical goal, such as the amount of books you want to read, blog posts you want to make, batches of cookies you want to bake, etc.
Features:
* Autosaves the amount of your goal.
* Autosaves how many you have done.
* Calculates the remaining amount left to go.
* Copy info to clipboard.
* Progressbar.
* Stays on top.
* Minimizes to tray.
* Access to some controls from tray menu.
How to use:
* Enter the amount of your goal in the top box.
* Click the Set button.
* Each time you complete one towards your goal, click the Add 1 button.
* Once you have reached your goal, click Reset and begin again to set a new goal.
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Donation ware. Sounds useful.
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http://www.donationcoder.com/Forums/bb/index.php?topic=11171.msg89147#msg89147
Evaluweight
Having trouble justifying a decision?
Stop procrastinating and start using Evaluweight !
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This started out as a little fun and bit of effort to scam mouser of one of the legendary Cody Mugs. In the end it is a interesting insight into how we come to a conclusion.
Theory: Each decision you make, is a 100 percent commitment. Therefore, that decision can be broken down into categories, and each category represents a part of that 100 percent commitment.
So “evaluweight” lays this all out in a nice and easy grid format. Simply give each category/feature a percentage mark of how it would impact your total commitment.
Now add the product that you want to compare, and in each category, mark that product out of 10 on how it meets your expectation.
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I remember using this to “sell” Leadership on making decisions. As part of my pitch, I’d get them to state what was important and how important it was. Then, we’d go thru each factor and give it a weight. And, poof there would be a “decision”.
Then, they’d decide they didn’t like the answer and made their own decision.
Little did they realize that I could have cared less WHAT they decided. All I cared about was that they DECIDED something. Anything.
So here’s a tool. Donation ware — you decide how much it’s worth.
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Posted by reinkefj
Never hurts to try your “disaster”.
Out on the road, and I am dependent upon VWBBIE for inet connectivity.
(Now bear in mind, I try it EVERY Wednesday. Wireless Wednesday! From either work or home. And it works flawlessly.)
Bear also in mind that the last time I was on the road in Denver, it took at least an hour to get it configured and working.
So between yesterday and today, I’ve spent at least two hours getting it working.
Argh!
This is why I debate signing up for another two years with Verizon for this POS!
It’s faster than dial up. Doesn’t work as flawlessly. And “disconnects” frequently. Argh.
Maybe if I had just a road machine?
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http://askbobrankin.com/gmail_beyond_the_basics.html
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Gmail: Beyond the Basics
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I love my Gmail. In fact, I’ve been using Google’s web-based email service for over two years now, and there’s NOTHING about traditional desktop email software that I miss. If you’ve been hesitating about moving your email online, read my tips and tricks for the Gmail user who wants to advance beyond the basics of the inbox.
I cover advanced searching in Gmail, how to use labels and filters, keyboard shortcuts, and how to tweak your Gmail settings to win friends, influence people and become better looking. ;-)
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Maybe I’ll have to reconsider my current reliance on LookOut from MSFT!
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FROM AN EMAIL EXCHANGE ABOUT “LIVELINESS”
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From: GB
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 8:50 AM
To: John Reinke
Subject: Re: Has anyone tested the “liveliness” of their LinkedIn “network”?
Okay, I read and re-read this.
I am not sure what you are exactly trying to say.
I recognize LinkedIn as a social networking tool. Outside of that, the voluntary and or involuntary act of CHAT or IM exist only where there are willing participants.
I would chat if there was something to chat about.
Perhaps, if you develop a forum that you wish to chat about or subjects that you would like feedback, you might draw the sustainable interest in the participants.
Outside of that, not everyone had a 6 sigma mentality and or even the slightest idea what that entails.
I, myself, am confused at times about the ‘how’s’, the ‘who’s’ and the ‘what’s’.
But, after all, it is only social networking. Not like it is dating or any other real and tangible way to communicate…right?
How you doin’
GB
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>Okay, I read and re-read this.
Sorry, I wasn’t clearer.
>I am not sure what you are exactly trying to say.
LinkedIn is a “strange duck”. It’s not “networking”. It’s probably more than a “yellow pages for recruiters”. Folks are fooled into an “activity trap”
and think they are “doing networking”.
>i recognize LinkedIn as a social networking tool.
Tool? Hmmm, not sure of that.
>you might draw the sustainable interest in the participants.
I’m not trying to “draw the sustain able interest”. I’m trying to figure out what is the proper place for LinkedIn within my own thinking.
>not everyone had a 6 sigma mentality
OK, if you’re not into 6sig. Then, let me phrase the same question in “plain English”. If LinkedIn is a tool, then what value has it provided me that justifies the attention, work, money, or time that I put into it?
>But, after all, it is only social networking.
SO, it should be considered like MySpace, Facebook, or Friendster? I bet that’s a minority opinion.
> Not like it is dating or any other real and tangible way to communicate…right?
Maybe?
>How you doin’
Get ready for the next layoff, jobsearch, and my next to last job. :-) Fatalistic. But, best not to be surprised.
Thanks for the thoughts
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Addendum:
Regardless of how solid one thinks one is in the job they are doing somewhere, it’s wise to be “aware”. I’ve pontificated often on the need of “salarymen”, as the Japanese wisely call those of us who are working for a paycheck, that you are only sure of the last paycheck that cleared the bank! It’s nice to believe in mutual loyalty between employer and employee, but, like most myths, hitting that “iceberg of reality” can put a big hole in YOUR boat. Bear in mind, it may not even be the employer’s “fault”. But even if it is, you must be prepared for when “the show closes”.
You always have to see the NEXT layoff in your future. It maybe next week, next month, next quarter, next year, next decade … … but be assured there WILL BE one! Sooner or later. Like a snowstorm, flood, or tornado, there’s going to be one. Salarymen must be prepared for it!
Give 100% to your employer for that is what you bargained for. Then, give 100% to finding your next gig. Never ever get caught by surprise.
In my patented copyrighted super-secret Coke-like formula for “how many months will I be burning not earning”, I have a factor for your to rate your employer. Factor is ONE for gooferment workers. (Although that may change if your work for the IRS and Ron Paul gets elected. But you get the idea.) Factor is FIVE if you work on WALLSTREET. How likely are you to get NUKED? The point is there is always some probability that you’ll get tossed out on your year. Just yesterday, I heard a senior exec at my employer tell a room full of folk “no job is safe”. So, I’d be a fool not to heeded my own advice.
:-)
And I may be a the big fat old turkey hisself and a FOWG to boot, but Mama Reinke didn’t raise no fool. (Where do you think my obsession with working comes from? Her Scarlet O’Hara-like dream of never being hungry gain!)
So, it’s get busy NETWORKING to prevent NOTWORKING!
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http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/12/meet-your-robot.html
Meet Your Robotic Firefighters
By Noah Shachtman
December 05, 2007 | 5:15:00 PM
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The makers of Iraq’s robot bomb squad are looking to automate firefighting, too.
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Neat! Not hard to imagine more dirty jobs going to robots.
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http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/12/new-killer-bot.html
Newbies Build Killer Robot; Fortune Fawns
By Noah Shachtman
December 05, 2007 | 12:33:01 PM
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Killer robots might have just had their dot-com bubble moment, in this fawning Fortune article. The stars: “a 25-year-old self-taught engineer named Adam Gettings” and his “toy-like but gun-wielding robot designed to replace human soldiers on the battlefield.”
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I’m not so sure that I think it will match the video, but the video gives one a vivid idea of their intent.
Will it use windoze?
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At 20071208 0747, LUGGABLE went nuts. I was working with Word and Outlook and Outlook pegged at 95%. The DYNDNS went red indicating a network problem. Eventually, at 0811, I became exasperated and did a power cycle. Now let’s see if there’s any damage. And poke around for a reason other than the usual suspects Comcast and MICROSOFT OUTLOOK. DYNDNS shows a network burp at 0850!?
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The adventure continues. The box wouldn’t reboot. An XP Repair luckily resuscitated it. (As I sat computing how royally screwed was I?) This time the Intelligent Designer decided that he had heard enough Irish prayers and permit the lesson to end with only 90 minutes wasted on this particular “productivity tool”.
Argh!!
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[003] – 07:50:23 – 12/08/2007 – IP changes (69.248.143.184 > 5.44.68.254 [automatic])
[005] – 07:50:24 – 12/08/2007 – Update process starts
[004] – 07:56:13 – 12/08/2007 – reiinkefj [dyndns.org]: 10091 (Network subsystem is unavailable)
[005] – 07:56:14 – 12/08/2007 – Update process finished
[004] – 07:56:16 – 12/08/2007 – Update result: winsock error
[002] – 07:56:24 – 12/08/2007 – Will try to check again within 1 minutes
[002] – 07:56:25 – 12/08/2007 – Next force update: 01/01/2008 17:22:44
[002] – 07:56:25 – 12/08/2007 – DynDNS Updater ready…
[001] – 08:07:52 – 12/08/2007 – DynDNS Updater started…
[002] – 08:08:42 – 12/08/2007 – Total group(s): 1 group
[002] – 08:08:43 – 12/08/2007 – Total host(s): 1 host
[002] – 08:08:43 – 12/08/2007 – Connected from: lug
[002] – 08:08:43 – 12/08/2007 – Connected using: Local Area Network
[002] – 08:08:43 – 12/08/2007 – Automatic update: Enable
[002] – 08:08:43 – 12/08/2007 – Checking interval: 5 minutes
[002] – 08:08:43 – 12/08/2007 – IP address is detected automatically
[002] – 08:08:43 – 12/08/2007 – Current IP: 5.44.68.254
[002] – 08:08:43 – 12/08/2007 – Updated IP: 69.248.143.184
[002] – 08:08:43 – 12/08/2007 – Last updated: 14 hours 45 minutes ago
[002] – 08:08:43 – 12/08/2007 – Next force update: 01/01/2008 17:22:44
[002] – 08:08:43 – 12/08/2007 – DynDNS Updater ready…
[003] – 08:09:09 – 12/08/2007 – IP changes (69.248.143.184 > 5.44.68.254 [automatic])
[005] – 08:09:10 – 12/08/2007 – Update process starts
[004] – 08:09:22 – 12/08/2007 – reiinkefj [dyndns.org]: 11001 (Host not found)
[005] – 08:09:26 – 12/08/2007 – Update process finished
[004] – 08:09:26 – 12/08/2007 – Update result: winsock error
[002] – 08:09:26 – 12/08/2007 – Will try to check again within 1 minutes
[002] – 08:09:27 – 12/08/2007 – Next force update: 01/01/2008 17:22:44
[002] – 08:09:28 – 12/08/2007 – DynDNS Updater ready…
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http://www.news.com/8301-13578_3-9829759-38.html?tag=nefd.top
December 5, 2007 5:47 PM PST
House vote on illegal images sweeps in Wi-Fi, Web sites
Posted by Declan McCullagh
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The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved a bill saying that anyone offering an open Wi-Fi connection to the public must report illegal images including “obscene” cartoons and drawings–or face fines of up to $300,000.
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No hearings, no committees, no “controversy” here.
Argh!
Fire up the old inet and put a blow torch on the congress critters.
No you see why we need a “read the bills act” and “one subject at a time”.
What a bunch of bozos!
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