A BLOGDESK competitor, one has to at least consider the offering from the Evil Empire. Clearly in my mind, it starts off with one big strike against it. It integrates with IE7 and not firefox. Strike Two. Now let’s see if it posts to WORDPRESSDOTCOM?
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OK so it did stick a post in the blog. Two strikes and looking for a third. :-)
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Posted by reinkefj
Spock
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Spock is the online leader in personal search, helping users find and discover people. With over one hundred million people already indexed and millions added every day, Spock is building the broadest and deepest people specific search engine.
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In light of my prestigious postition in the field of blogging about technology, … … ok I asked when they said “any fools out there will to test our stuff for no money … I’ve got one of the “rare” spock accounts. (I have invites. What’s it worth to you?)
It’s pretty neat a service. I found some Jaspers I didn’t know about.
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Posted by reinkefj
http://changethis.com/35.03.AgainstYou
http://changethis.com/pdf/35.03.AgainstYou.pdf
Against You: A Manifesto in Favor of Audience
By Andrew Keen
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If a tree falls in the forest, and there is no one there to hear it, does it make a sound? Andrew Keen asserts that the same riddle can be applied to Web 2.0. While new Internet technology has revolutionized traditional media and allows everyone to be writer/creator, if everyone is writer/creator, then just who is left to listen to the cacophony?
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Doesn’t matter if there is an audience. It’s one song. (a universe) The noise is the song!
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Posted by reinkefj
FROM AN EMAIL EXCHANGE WITH A FELLOW ALUMNI
>I’ve thought about getting a domain, but when I asked one of my “gurus” about it,
> I discovered there was more to it than I realized, and I haven’t finished off the
> research yet. (Be on the lookout for non-ingineer questions.)
That might have been true a while ago, but now it’s drop dead easy. And, cheap.
I can walk you through either of two methods.
Method Number One is “more professional”, gives you future flexibility (it’s really a web site package), and costs about 50$ a year from my WSP. http://www.1and1.com/?k_id=9113251 (I use a version of that package on steroids — 240$/year — for my consulting sites; Jasper Jottings rides on the coat tails of that.) Note: you can get just the email for ~14$/year, but that limits you to just email.
Method Number Two is more limited as far as future flexibility, depends upon the “generosity” of WordPress and Google (I use that for my blog reinkefaceslife), and costs about $15/year.
Either way, your email is yours and private. Even if you use the web interface for work, it’s accessed by https and as such it is encrypted from anyone’s prying eyes.
As you see below, you can have [his name] dot com.
Hope this helps,
yell if you need more,
fjohn68
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Posted by reinkefj
The end of the plug?
Scientists invent wireless device that beams electricity through your home
by DAVID DERBYSHIRE
Last updated at 12:31pm on 8th June 2007
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Scientists have sounded the death knell for the plug and power lead.
In a breakthrough that sounds like something out of Star Trek, they have discovered a way of ‘beaming’ power across a room into a light bulb, mobile phone or laptop computer without wires or cables.
In the first successful trial of its kind, the team was able to illuminate a 60-watt light bulb 7ft away.
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It sounds effective but is it efficient? We don’t need to have to build a grazillion new power plants. I can envision power losses in high percentages. If it broadcasts all the time, then what happens when there is no use for it. A lot of questions between here and declaring the end of power cords. Also, who pays? Every guest charges his cell phone at my expense? Sounds like we need some nuclear reactors. Another great technology sidelined by popular ignorance. (France get 2/3 of its electric power from nuclear reactors.) So there is often a lot of resistance to new ideas.
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Posted by reinkefj
Just to call your attention to a neat use of Skype.
Recently Frau was in the ER. Aside from being banned, cell phones weren’t working that well. I assume the building and well as all the electronics around were part of the reason. The fact it was around the corner from an XRAY MRI lab may account for why we were all “glowing”.
Any way, Frau wanted to talk to some relatives.
(Hey what else does one do during the 7 hour wait? If this is far better than socialized medicine, you can keep Hillary care!)
So, I had the idea to Skype. I had my laptop up on the hospital wifi, so I brought up skype, plugged in the headphones, and poof she was talking to relatives.
Everyone reported the calls clear and crisp.
For fun I went up on VWBBie (Verizon Wireless Broad Band) and it worked to. I could have opened my own phone booth.
(Maybe I should have called the ER doc on the phone and asked for them to shake a leg! I could have called the aide. That’d have been a hoot!)
Any way something to keep in mind if you’re stuck for a phone.
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Posted by reinkefj
This is a test. It is only a test.
Update: Interesting question. Some one said they got more hits with “timeless content”. Of course, I immediately jumped to try it. I went to the “Options” tab and took out the format of the date stamp. After doing it, I did wonder if I could go back. ?:-) But too late to worry about that. The interesting thing was that the change it had no effect. Do I assume that the template hard codes something to put the date in there. Is it a bug? An undocumented feature? Or, something else? Like a wet ware error on this side of the glass?
Update: Mark@WrdPress says “There is no formula for this. Some themes do hard code the time/date, others do not.”
Hmmm!?!
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Posted by reinkefj
When the hospital’s free wifi (beggars can’t be choosers) was blocking FTP, I pinged my WSP for help. A day later (Drop Dead While Waiting), I get this useless “help”. Argh!
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From: support @ 1and1
Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 12:54 AM
To: reinkefj
Subject: C75194506 – 1&1 Internet Support
Dear Ferdinand Reinke, (Customer ID: 9113251)
Thank you for contacting us.
Unfortunately, FTP is universally using only port 21. We have no alternaltive ports for FTP. You can use the Secure FTP or Secure Shell to upload the files however, this is not supported in your current package. SSH (@port 22) is only available in 1&1 Business Linux and higher packages.
If you have any further questions please do not hesitate to contact us.
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Sincerely,
Neil Parilla
Technical Support
1&1 Internet
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Why bother? I didn’t ask for alternative ports. I ASKED for an alternative PERIOD.
I find their service highly available (I can’t ever remember being “out of service”) and “cheap” (I pay about $250/year and “collected” all my web sites in one place with gobs of space and bandwidth left over).
But they could do a better job answering questions faster and should really have an non-FTP alternative to updating a web site. What happens if this core protocol has a major problem (unlikely, but someone always wins the lotto!) and they have to take down FTP.
Seems like an SPF (Single Point of Failure) to me?
Argh!
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Note: Updating my Alumni News webpage until I got home to my great cable ISP. :-) When everything always works PERFECTLY! :-)
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FROM PCMECHANIC
Resetting Your Internet Connection
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If you use either DSL or a Cable Modem and find your Internet connection has unexpectedly gone down, before you dial up tech support, try “resetting” your Internet connection. Here is how:
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My router can be accessed from the client and rebooted. I usually try that before I go crazy.
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Posted by reinkefj
Argh! And, the WSP does appear to support anything other than FTP to update websites. Argh! Argh!
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