What a bozo! He wants full custody of the child. The wife is living in what was described as “modest circumstances”. And, he’s high on the hog. Could it be to strike back for his wife’s tell all book coming out? Sheesh, he should crawl back under before the nj taxpayers ask why isn’t he in jail?
RANT: McSleezey slid out from under his rock
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
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RANT: Maybe I need a vacation?
Tuesday, March 13, 2007Did you ever have one of those lifetimes when every single thing seems like it is: (a) screwed up; (b) going wrong; (c) gone wrong; (d) irritating; or (e) Argh!? Did you?
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TECHNOLOGY: Why “nutshell”?
Monday, March 12, 2007Nutshell helps you search the web, take notes
and manage your to-do list quick and easy.
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Wallnote’s time has come. When I heard Microsoft stopped supporting Active Desktop, I designed a better way to keep you organized.
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Why?
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TECHNOLOGY: FEEDBLITZ fails me. Anyone else?
Monday, March 12, 2007Yesterday, Sunday, 11 Mar 07, FEEDBLITZ didn’t send me an email.
1570 2007-03-10 9:14:28 pm RANT: AG steps on his tongue
1569 2007-03-10 6:49:48 pm LIBERTY: Socialism is the biggest threat to the American Experiment Liberty
1568 2007-03-10 10:25:18 am FUN; FACEBOOK BADGE Technology
1567 2007-03-10 7:55:47 am JOBSEARCH: Don’t discount age in search time jobsearch
1566 2007-03-10 7:37:20 am XPfails – luggable – Lost DNS; shift to VWBBIE luggable 0 reinkefj
1565 2007-03-10 7:35:12 am GUNS: Of course the Second Amendment recognizes an individual right. Guns 0
Six rather good posts were not echoed out. Argh!
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FUN; FACEBOOK BADGE
Saturday, March 10, 2007<a href=”http://www.facebook.com/p/John_Reinke/32104185” title=”John Reinke’s Facebook profile” target=_TOP><img src=”http://badge.facebook.com/badge/32104185.164.518708477.png” border=0 alt=”John Reinke’s Facebook profile”></a>
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XPfails – luggable – Lost DNS; shift to VWBBIE
Saturday, March 10, 2007Apparently have lost DNS, shifted to VWBBIE, called “home”.
Time to think about OPENDNS again. Put it on the 2do.
VWBBIE feels downright “spritely”
Download Speed: 495 kbps (61.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 33 kbps (4.1 KB/sec transfer rate)
And, I even “see” that the venturi caching server is offline. Interesting.
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XPfails – luggable – BLOGDESK loses the ability to talk to the target
Friday, March 9, 2007Interesting. Every once and while, BLOGDESK loses its mind. It fails to complete a conversation with the target blog it is storing into. I don’t know who to blame (i.e., the Blog site, XP, or BlogDesk). But only a reboot will clear. After a restart, everything works fine. Now that I have gotten in the habit of SAVE then PUBLISH, it’s NBD (no big deal).
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INTERESTING: Sorting in Excel
Tuesday, March 6, 2007>>> Oh well, the favor involves an Excel spreadsheet that I am using to
>>> keep track of the team’s standings. I have a formula in there to
>>> calculate Win-Loss percent as you will see, but what I would also like
>>>each table (AL East, AL West, NL East, NL West) is sort the teams
>>>according to W-L percentage.
>>>
>>> I think what my problem is..is that I am trying to sort ‘within’ the
>>> spreadsheet, ie, just certain cols and rows. If I made each table
>>> (e.g. AL East) a separate spreadhseet then I suppose I could do it.
>>> Well don’t spend too much time on it…(you are too expensive for
>>> me)…I just thought I would give it a try.
>> I copied your sheet 1 to sheet2.
>> I removed your extra columns, merged cells, and two hidden merged cell
>> columns.
>> I “equalized” in column width all cells.
>> I then selected each range to be sorted. Did “data”
>> “sort” “PCT” for the range.
>> I repeated that for each one of the four ranges.
>> I think that is what you were trying to do.
>> It should be possible to code a macro to sort all four ranges
>> automagically.
>> (But you said don’t spend a lot of time.)
>That was great, thanks so much! So it looks like after I make an update,
>that all I have to do is then highlight the range to be sorted, and Select
> Data, Sort. I gave it a test and it worked great.
>
>My next challenge will be to try and write a macro to calculate the GB
> (Games Back)! Thanks again John, I knew you would know how to do that.
http://www.math.utoronto.ca/mathnet/questionCorner/baseball.html
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UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO MATHEMATICS NETWORK
Question Corner and Discussion Area
How To Compute Standings In Baseball
Asked by David Tobey on October 6, 1997:
In sports statistics, namely baseball, how do you calculate the number of games that a second place team is behind the first place team? This is easy if both teams have played the same number of games, but if they have not played the same amount, it isn’t so clear. This sounds like a fascinating mathematical question for a math fan and sports buff. I have come up with a few scenarios, but never have seen a definitive formula.
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Their Answer:
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My summary: The original question taught me that sorting in Excel can not handle “hidden columns” (i.e., width set to zero — a consultant’s trick), columns of unequal width, and merged cells. Interesting facts I was unaware of. The effort was time stopped before I learned how to sort four ranges on the same page. I assume a macro, but I’ll bet named ranges might work as well since all sort on the same “pct”. Finally, the heavy lifting of calculating games behind was solved nicely by the University of Toronto. Thanks to the folks there. Finally that was interesting because they don’t play baseball. :-) For all those kids who went to gooferment skool, that formula is (I guess) the Canadian way of writing the generalized solution to a quadratic equation. Also interesting.
An interesting interesting exercise.
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TECHNOLOGY: RSS is nothing more than XML, but what implications
Monday, March 5, 2007http://www.brightcove.com/title.jsp?title=570307363
Practical RSS
John Mahoney
CTO / co-founder of Instant Information
RSS is nothing more than a specific application of XML applied to the information distribution problem. Here’s an excellent short explanation of it. Everyone may benefit from. RSS could be the way out of the morass of email we all deal with every day. Blogs, many websites, wikis, most forums can all produce an rss feed.
Envision instead of sending an milti-meg email full of attachments, that absorbs resources galore all over, one can create an entry that gets shared automagically with everyone who wants it. RSS is a pull technology. Your reader PULLS the content your interested in as opposed to you having to go get it. You can control it.
It turns the information model upside down from the way we think about it now.
Instead of one email with a bunch of carbon copies, you can “subscribe” to sources. on the intranet and internet, who will feed you.
I’ve been “doing” RSS as both a publisher and a consumer for a while now and would be happy to show you how it can work for you.
If someone can’t live outside of Microsoft LookOut, there is a freeware product called RSSPOPPER that will make an rss feed look like email folder to your LookOut. ;-) Wouldn’t want anyone to go into withdrawal.
If you are on email subscription lists, there are ways to turn them into rss feeds as well.
I’d love to “consult” with anyone who thinks I can help.
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TECHNOLOGY: Divshare – Free eternal large file hosting (How’d they do that?)
Monday, March 5, 2007Divshare – Free file hosting for mp3s and blog pictures
Andy Roberts
an online researcher who initiated distributedresearch.net
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Divshare allows you to upload as many files as you like, up to 200Mb per file and then serves them up wherever you like for free, as text links, hotlinked from your blog or embedded as an mp3 player. And there’s a divshare uploader plugin for WordPress.org which makes it so easy to add pictures to a blog without incurring any bandwith or file quota charges, whilst keeping them all organised together under your divshare account, accessible from the dashboard. This would probably have some advantages over using flickr as a file hosting resource for blogs and wiki.
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Naturally, I like anything that is free. This site purports to keep anything online for free forever? I don’t know how they can do it, but that doesn’t prevent me from trying it out.
Of course, being paranoid, I’d only put stuff there that I didn’t really care about. If it was the least bit private, it’d have to be encrypted.
YMMV, but it might be useful.
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