The car wouldn’t start. Probably a battery. What a pig.
The TV started to act up. I blamed the cable. The cable guy just came and blamed the TV. Arghh! On hold with samsung now. Argh!
RANT: Not a good day TV and car dies!
Saturday, February 17, 2007
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TECHNOLOGY: Removing RSSBANDIT
Friday, February 16, 2007Not that there was anything wrong with it. It’s just that Google’s READER displaced it.
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XPfails – luggable – BLOGDESK failed or xp?
Friday, February 16, 2007Today, I was using blogdesk. I composed a post and sent it to wordpress. BLOGDESK just sat there. I assume trying to connect. Breaking the cycle put the whole box into a stoppage. Reboot. A long cycle because it was applying maintenance. Argh! So, what was the failure? All I know is that BLOGDESK lost my post. Not that is was so valuable. More so that I forgot to save a draft before it published. It should do that. Everything appears to be working now?
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LINKEDIN: How many identities are “empty rotting shells”?
Thursday, February 15, 2007>What email do you use on LinkedIn?
>Posted by: “Ed Callahan”
>Wed Feb 14, 2007 7:19 am (PST)
>You can and should have as many emails in your profile as possible.
Understood. I have lots.
>then brokers communication with you via your primary email.
That’s part of the problem. People think of their employer’s email as “theirs”. It’s not.
>you should use an email you own as your primary email – I’m with you on that.
Glad we agree to agree agreeably. As opposed to agree to disagree either agreeably or disagreeably. (Whaaa, like the Aflac duck commercial!)
>I like the other suggestions you make, but in some sense they are moot.
Not so sure, that I agree with the LinkedIn design of primary email. If I was king, I’d insist that each LinkedIn-ite have TWO working emails. Primary and secondary. And, I’d double LinkedIn’s email load (notice how free I am with other people’s resources), so as to ensure it works. (It would ensure that you don’t miss messages.)
I have at least two correspondents who have lost their access to their primary email account AND forgotten their passwords. Interesting? (One bozo kept it on the computer she had to turn back in.) So she has no way of recovering her profile.
If I was the “King of LinkedIn” (hey that rhymes), I’d decree that LinkedIn would test for “life at the end of the wire”. Hasn’t happened to me on linkedin, but it has on my ezine, where are readers email goes bouncing due to death. Awkward, but one should know these things.
I wonder how many of LinkedIn’s millions are dead (user died), disabled (user’s email innoperative), lost (user not interacting), zombies (shells constructed by other), abandons (user walks away), or in one way or another “empty rotting shells” (are there other types of strawmen). Someone might crassly say that its to LinkedIn’s benefit to inflate the numbers with these empty rotting shells and they have no incentive to bulldoze inactivity.
So, imnsho, LinkedIn’s email architecture is flawed. And, it doesn’t have robust process and procedures to ensure “liveliness”.
Am I the only one who measures “days since last contact” in my network? The empty rotting shells play havoc with your score. (See like some players of the Linkedin “game”, score on how many scalps they collect, I’m much more sophisticated. I score by days since last significant contact. Pinging you with a plaxo or cardscan email address update doesn’t count. That’s a better “game”.)
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RANT: How many guns do they lose?
Wednesday, February 14, 2007From Tom’s Hardware Guide:
DOJ Report says FBI Loses Three Laptops a Month
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A Department of Justice audit has found that the Federal Bureau of Investigation loses approximately three laptops per month. The FBI loses the majority of the laptops, about 2.64 a month, through simple forgetfulness while 1 laptop a month is stolen.
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Your gooferment at work! Argh!
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RANT: ROAD IDIOTS this morning
Wednesday, February 14, 2007The roads were icy this morning. We didn’t get the blizzard the weather people predicted. (Weathermen, economists, and politician are the only people who can be wrong and still get paid!) The crazy nuts of the road were zipping thru like it was a summer’s day. Several of them wound up in the ditch. One us tractor trailer got me to say a good irish word when he went three wide at (my guess) 75! Argh!
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TECHNOLOGY: GOTOMYPC is a neat utility
Tuesday, February 13, 2007GOTOMYPC
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Get Secure Remote Access with GoToMyPC
GoToMyPC is the fast, easy and secure way to access your PC from any Web browser or wireless device in real time.
* Access files, programs, email, and network
* Increase your flexibility and productivity
* Work on your office PC from home
* Travel and use your PC remotely
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Well, it is handy. Not cheap. $180 per year. And it does apparently work flawlessly. My biggest problem is that WXP decides randomly that it doesn’t want to communicate with the outside world any more. Sometimes nothing but a reboot will make it start again. That’s not gotomypc’s fault. But, when I want it to do it’s magic and it don’t, guess who gets the blame. Not Microsoft for it’s hunk of junk. Will I lose this capability when I move my “shop” to Linux?
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XPfails – luggable – OUTLOOK locks up; Plaxo suspect?
Tuesday, February 13, 2007Outlook with Plaxo Update were “not responding”. I suspect that was the problem again.
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LINKEDIN: LinkedIn-related Yahoo Groups that I am moderating
Monday, February 12, 2007Ferdinand John Reinke
http://www.linkedin.com/in/reinkefj
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