This morning, BLOGDESK started to time out when it was attempting to update the free, and unequaled, wordpressdotcom. Now there are a lot reasons: netowrk, software on each end of the wire, or the rain. :-) I can’t point the finger yet. But, you can be sure when I can, I will!
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Update: As of 1400 est, it’s all working. I don’t know who to blame. But since it’s still raining, I’ll have to allow the Intelligent Designer off the hook. All others, I have my eye on you! Argh!
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http://www.impactlab.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=13800
Village Uses Ducks To Stop Speeding
Posted on Tuesday, November 13 @ 17:50:09 CST Eye
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Postmistress Ann Martin, 63, from Portesham, Dorset, has recruited a ‘quack’ squad after she noticed motorists driving more carefully when the birds were around.
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:-)
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http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2007/11/powerlessness_san_diego_almost.html
November 13, 2007
Powerlessness: San Diego almost blacked-out
Thomas Lifson
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During the recent wildfires, San Diego came perilously close to being blacked out, thanks to the vulnerability of its connections to the national power grid and the low portion of its electric power that is generated locally. The ability to fight that disaster might have been crippled if electric power had been out for any extended period.
Craig Rose of the San Diego Union-Tribune explains the technical complexities involved. But the fundamental issues are clear:
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2. It is very, very hard (and expensive) to build high capacity transmission lines in this age of BANANA (“Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anyone”)
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A grown-up approach would be to balance the risks if insufficient local generating capacity with the risks of nuclear power, CO2 emissions, and the like.
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While France, a tree hugging country if I ever heard of one, gens more than half of its electricity nuke-wise, we can’t seem to get our act together. BANANA will ensure that we are screwed royally in so many different ways. Imagine what we could tell the sheiks, Chavez, and Putin that they could do with their oil? The gooferment ensure that nothing ever gets done.
Sigh!
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http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/web/2007/1105web2.html
Social networking integration
Flock integrates social networking Web services
Web Applications Newsletter By Mark Gibbs, Network World, 11/07/07
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Flock has taken the framework of the Mozilla Firefox browser and provided integration with a number of social networking Web services including Flickr, Del.icio.us, Technorati, Photobucket, RSS feeds, and a number of blogging services.
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Well, I put up FLOCK and it doesn’t do LinkedIn. Seems like it HAS to do LinkedIn to be considered as a “production quality” offering. It does give one a hint of what it could become.
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FROM AN EMAIL ABOUT LINKEDIN
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>Second, what is the 5 strikes and you’re locked rule that you refer to below?
LinkedIn has a policy, about a year old, that if five people that you invite say “Don’t know”, you’re account is locked out. Depending upon how well you kowtow to “customer (dis)service”, they will unlock you. A second offense, and you may not be unlocked.
>Third, I like your “I am not accepting your request ..”
Contrary to the impression my large count gives, I am NOT an open networker. (I run an alumni ezine and have been “in transition” five times and ran a networking group.) I try to only connect with kindred spirits.
>Speaking of LinkedIn, I had an interesting conversation with a recruiter last week on the topic of having recruiters as LinkedIn connections.
I’d think that was “interesting” because recruiters have a completely different set of objectives than real people.
> I told her my take on how I see it being a one-way street (at least from a career networking point of view)
I’m not so sure I agree with you. LinkedIn for seekers allows one to find and be found.
>and she basically agreed as she said “I would never put my clients in my linkedin connections”.
Sure, because she can’t compete with all the recruiters out their chasing a diminishing world of hiring managers and job seekers. If I can id someone who needs my brand of poison then why should they hire a recruiter to find me. Or visa versa.
There’s a lot of sleeze tactics on LinkedIn.
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Posted by reinkefj
http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/2007/11/mlb-game-downloads-still-inaccessible.html
11.06.2007
If You Purchased MLB Game Downloads Before 2006, Your Discs/Files Are Now Useless; MLB Has Stolen Your $$$ And Claims “No Refunds”
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2nd Update: Baseball Think Factory has publicized the discussion.
Update: Just got off the phone with a MLB customer service supervisor.
“MLB no longer supports the DDS system” that it once used and so any CDs with downloaded games on them “are no good. They will not work with the current system.”
Great. Just effing great. … As I told the supervisor, this is right in line with how wrong-headed and stupid and ass backwards MLB does everything.
I was told there is absolutely nothing MLB can do about these lost games. Plus, they said my purchases were all “one-time sales” and thus “there are no refunds”.
No refunds? As Lee Elia would say: “My ******* ass!”
My info has been submitted to some other MLB department which will review things and see what they can do about either getting me the games I paid for or refunding my $280.45.
So if you have downloaded any games prior to 2006, get those discs out and try to watch them … then call MLB at 866-800-1275 and demand they refund your money.
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Hence, my policy, no drm ever. Period. No excuse. No way; no how!
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What is a personalized LinkedIn url?
Personalizing your LinkedIn url allow you to customize the web address of your LinkedIn public profile. You can include this personalized LinkedIn url in the signature of emails you send, post it on other web sites, or whatever. (Put it on your resume?) You “personalize” it by getting to the “Edit My Public Profile” page. Then choose what will appear after the last slash in www.linkedin.com/in/ “at least five letters”! “first come, first served”! “one to a user”!
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http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Hushmail-Privacy-Limits-Revealed-89283
Hushmail Privacy Limits Revealed
Significant difference in java, non-java versions
01:20PM Friday Nov 09 2007 by Karl
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Hushmail offers encrypted e-mail services for the paranoid and/or privacy conscious. The company uses cryptographic and encryption protocols OpenPGP and AES 256 to scramble the contents of messages stored on their servers. According to the company, “not even a Hushmail employee with access to our servers can read your encrypted e-mail, since each message is uniquely encoded before it leaves your computer.”
However, Wired News’s threat level blog notes that this protection only goes so far. The blog notes that one version of the company’s platform contains a loophole that allows law enforcement to request un-encrypted messages en masse, defeating the purpose for some of the service’s regular clientelle:
A September court document (.pdf) from a federal prosecution of alleged steroid dealers reveals the Canadian company turned over 12 CDs worth of e-mails from three Hushmail accounts, following a court order obtained through a mutual assistance treaty between the U.S. and Canada.
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Don’t bet your freedom on anything you don’t control.
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Just wasted a half hour of my life with Chase. I pay my Mom’s bills. Been doing it for awhile. Today, I go to logon and the account is suspended. Huh? Worked last week. They tell me that “the account is set up wrong” and it will be fixed on Wednesday. Huh? Argh! What changed? What a bunch of bozos. Doesn’t inspire confidence.
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At the end of the first week: (for all contacts older than one month)
%Dead 0.0720
%Unresponding 0.6490
%MyEmployer 0.0719
%HeadHunters 0.0182
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My original focus was on “breakage”. But at a little more than 5%, that’s not terrible. I am attempting to “reach around” the break. That’s how I describe sending an InMail directly to a contact of the “broken contact”.
Since my first email only induced about 30% to respond, I’ll have to figure out a better approach.
Sigh. Always more to do!
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