It appears that Plaxo went awol. The first indication of trouble was when a editpro project wouldn’t open. From that point, every think went down hill from there. Reboot. And try again?
XPfails – luggable – Looks like Plaxo?
Monday, February 12, 2007
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LINKEDIN: Never use your employer’s email on LinkedIn or any site like it
Sunday, February 11, 2007Seems like an obvious “tip” to me.
Lose your job? You lose a lot of things. Not the least of which is your paycheck, “your” email address, and access to it.
You add to the disaster when you use the employer’s email address to register for sites.
Stay in control, use your “personal” email address for anything that isn’t strictly related to your employment.
I personally recommend you establish your own “stuff”.
Go register your “name” as a web site. Most commercial grade web site providers throw in a slew of email addresses with most packages.
I chuckle when I see a 6 figure executive using his employer’s email address on a networking, job, or resume site; that makes him “clueless” imho.
Or even worse is some lame internet service provider’s address like AOL for email or a free kid’s site for webpages.
But, the truly worst is when they use a “lame” email name. In the last year, I’ve seen: “bigexec@”, “expertmgmt@”, and even “irishstud@” … on resumes. (I busted a gut getting out a “helpful suggestion” email.)
At least, GOOGLE GMAIL for email or GPAGES for web sites makes you look avante garde.
“My” WSP offers a “beginner” package for $36/year that includes: 1 FREE domain name; 10 GB web space; 300 GB traffic; 600 e-mail accounts; and bunch of other stuff. http://www.1and1.com/?k_id=9113251 I’m sure that all the comparable professional sites offer similar. (I laugh at consumer sites that charge lot’s more for lot’s less!)
They now all have “fill out a form” interfaces to do what used to be complicated stuff! Build a web page, you worry about content, not html. Forward your special personal email address (i.e., corporate drone @ my first mi last name dot com) to my business one (i.e., corporate drone @ corporate dot com) by a different form. Use your “seeking address” (i.e., corporate drone seeks new hive @ my first mi last name dot com) for your networking activities.
So, it’s control. You control “your” email.
Note, while you can check your email via the web interface from your workplace, if you really need to, I don’t recommended is. Don’t mix business with “pleasure”. At least, not without encryption. Your employer has the “right” to look at everything on their stuff, and many do. Some archive as search everything. Reprisals are commonplace. It’s a snooper’s paradise. Don’t be a victim.
Yell if you need help!
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TECHNOLOGY: “Pimped out John” Not me. The latrine. The loo. Sigh, the other john.
Sunday, February 11, 2007http://www.profy.com/2007/02/10/web20-flushed/
Breaking News – Web 2.0 in the Toilet!
Posted by Phil Butler on February 10th, 2007
Filed in General, Technologies, Web 2.0, Press releases
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Roto-Rooter® has arrived on the scene in the nick of time and has developed a customized, one of a kind throne! This new “Pimped out John”, as it has been dubbed, is designed to fulfill all of our bathroom dreams. Roto-Rooter will build this shining monument to productivity to the lucky winner of their online sweepstakes. Everyone is invited to participate and anyone can win a throne fit for a king! It should be obvious how far we have come.
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Now I have heard people at work, in the stall, talking on their cell, tapping on their berries, and reading the traditional newspaper. I’ve even read about the toilet for Japanese women that play disguising music. (I would have thought women were much more practical.)
But, clearly fmpov, this is taking tech too far.
Besides, from my career in the military, I know you could never clean it. But, then you can never clean anything to a Drill Instructor’s, a mother’s, a wife’s, or any woman’s standard.
But, this ever strains my credibility.
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TECHNOLOGY: Tor — an acronym for The Onion Router
Saturday, February 10, 2007http://chronicle.com/temp/email2.php?id=zht45qPrsddjvvgfcjwWPjxhFwqxyfVX
OBSERVER
Caught in the Network
By PAUL CESARIN
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Tor — an acronym for The Onion Router — is a freely available, open-source program developed by the U.S. Navy about a decade ago. A browser plug-in, it thwarts online traffic analysis and related forms of Internet surveillance by sending your data packets through different routers around the world. As each packet moves from one router to the next, it is encoded with encrypted routing information, and the previous layer of such information is peeled away — hence the “onion” in the name.
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Everyone should be trying that.
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TECHNOLOGY: DIIGO has some features for blogging
Friday, February 9, 2007- Social Annotation: Seamless Integration of Social Bookmarking, Web Highlighter, Sticky-Note & ClippingI
A tool for blogging input?
Usefulness tbd.
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TECHNOLOGY: Capture a webpage and act on it (e.g., email it)
Thursday, February 8, 2007Jump Knowledge
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Have you ever wished you could add your two cents to a site—anywhere you wanted—not just in an itty bitty blog area?
Have you ever wished you could email a web page with your comments inside it?
Then welcome to JumpKnowledge: to a world without limits, where the web is your canvas and you can paint your thoughts anywhere you want.
Isn’t it time you spread a little jump Knowledge?
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http://jkn.com/View?j=772318.592020301527
This seems like a nifty little freebie. I am not exactly sure that I understand it. But, it does allow the emailing of a capture page. I’m going to try it.
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TECHNOLOGY: Visual aid for the tiny fonts for the old turkeys like me
Thursday, February 8, 2007{Begin Quote}
Free! The nice screen magnifier, moves together with the cursor Windows, the overlay is used.
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This is a five gobble goble in my book.
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TECHNOLOGY: Moving from a wsp is like getting away from AOL
Tuesday, February 6, 2007I’m consolidating all my Web stuff on one WSP 1and1 (http://www.1and1.com/?k_id=9113251) and getting away from old wsps is like escaping aol!
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TECHNOLOGY: My security observation included
Monday, February 5, 2007http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/24.56.html
RISKS-LIST: Risks-Forum Digest Sunday 4 February 2007 Volume 24 : Issue 56
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Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 20:28:34 -0500
From: “Reinke’s Catch All Email”
Subject: A second site “improves” security
A second site, Paytrust, has followed Vanguard, in “improving” security. They now have one screen for userid and then a second screen for password. The theory is that if I don’t see my selected picture and secret phrase on the screen then I shouldn’t enter my password.
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Peter G. Neumann is the of Risks and the chairman of ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy. I was honored to have my security observation included in his ezine.
Nice to know my mind hasn’t gone totally to mush.
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XPfails – luggable – Microsoft WORD kludges my doc
Saturday, February 3, 2007I was doing the alumni ezine. As I was finishing the index, poof! WORD decided I needed a new page placed along side the first page. In effect, it folded my doc as if it was a two column newspaper.
I fired up Open Office and could see some of the problems.
I wriggled around like a dead fish.
Finally I had the idea of saving it as an RTF. That didn’t clear the problem but it put me on the track of a solution.
I saved it as WORD60 format. Then, when I reopened it I could delete the break.
Argh.
Very very ugly.
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