TECH SERVICE: TRUFINA “truth be told”

Saturday, November 17, 2007

https://www.trufina.com

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What is a Trufina Identity Card?

Your Verified Trufina Identity Cards are customizable views of information about you that you share with others. Think of it as an electronic version of your driver’s license. Since it is customizable, you can restrict what verified information you show to others. Want to show your city but not your home address? Or prove your age to someone without revealing your full name? You can create multiple credentials for various situations, such as online dating, reputation management, or buying and selling goods through online auctions or classifieds. You control who sees which cards, and nobody can view your ID card without your permission.

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I’ve added a reputation service to my arsenal of tools. Why? People thought my recent networking email might have been spam or phish. Arghh!

Ask to see my identity at www.Trufina.com!

http://profile.trufina.com/reinkefj

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LINKEDIN: May I suggest that you have your own domain?

Saturday, November 17, 2007

May I suggest that you have your own domain?

The common wisdom, or is that common whizdumb, is to own your own name as a domain name. I own “reinke.cc”. (I like saying “sea sea me at reinke.cc”!) I gives one quite a bit of control. And, it’s very cheap. I know three solutions at 15$/year using wordpressdotcom with gmail, 25$/year email only with 1and1, and 60$/year for domain + email + webspace also at 1and1. My point is not that you should use 1and1. I could care less. It’s that getting on to your own email is cheap and easy.

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LINKEDIN: May I suggest that you not use your employer’s email on LinkedIn?

Friday, November 16, 2007

May I suggest that you not use your employer’s email on LinkedIn?

LinkedIn is a great way to find people and be found. Unfortunately, in today’s economic climate, changing jobs is a fact of life. When I was on Wall Street, one would be walked out of the building and one’s email unceremoniously forwarded to one’s boss or “Human Resources”. That taught me NEVER to depend or use the boss’ email. So to, I’ve seen a lot of people — one of my very best contacts — lose access to their LinkedIn account. She’s forgotten her password and her corporate email is gone. Hence always I advise people to use a personal email on LinkedIn. I have some pretty specific opinions about what email to use, but suffice to say it’s NEVER the corporate email.

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Update: And, I saw that happen yesterday! :-(

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TECHNOLOGY: BLOGDESK and WORDPRESSDOTCOM

Thursday, November 15, 2007

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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TECHNOLOGY: Using technology (i.e., ducks) to slow traffic

Thursday, November 15, 2007

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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TECHNOLOGY: BANANA (“Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anyone”)

Wednesday, November 14, 2007

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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TECH SOFTWARE: Flock gives a taste of what could be

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

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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LINKEDIN: an email about LinkedIn

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

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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TECH SERVICE: Purchased MLB Game Downloads ?

Monday, November 12, 2007

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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LINKEDIN: Personalizing your LinkedIn url

Sunday, November 11, 2007

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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