TECHNOLOGY: Surfing net is top pastime for elderly

Friday, February 2, 2007

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?
xml=/news/2007/02/02/net02.xml

http://tinyurl.com/32h6g4l

Surfing net is top pastime for elderly
By David Derbyshire, Consumer Affairs Editor
Last Updated: 1:51am GMT 02/02/2007

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Browsing the internet has overtaken DIY and gardening to become the favourite pastime of older people, according to a survey. The current generation of “silver surfers” spends an average of six hours online each week, research by the insurance company AXA found.

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“on the internet no one knows you’re a dog”

to quote a famous New Yorker magazine cartoon. Nor do they know you are old.

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TECHNOLOGY: SKYPE me (reinkefj) for free.

Thursday, February 1, 2007

http://www.skype.com/helloagain.html

SKYPE

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Call other people on Skype and it’s free – anywhere in the world.

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WordPress doesn’t make it easy. There’s nothing that I can put on the blog that will make it easy for you to tap one icon, get skype, install it if needed, call me, and talk to me free.

You can get it and install it. Then skype me as “reinkefj”, or “732-917-4816” is my skype phone number.

(Or you can Yahoo me at reinkefj or 609-489-5893!)

I’m just playing around and love to try technology.

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RANT: The Most Important Author of the 20th Century

Thursday, February 1, 2007

http://questions.newsvine.com/_news/2007/02/01/
547368-the-most-important-author-of-the-20th-century
?threadId=72756&cmt=506878

http://tinyurl.com/yovwm2

The Most Important Author of the 20th Century

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Who is the most important author of the twentieth century? Why?

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Ludwig von Mises

IMHO he “nailed” socialism, and the big government, as the complete opposite of liberty and freedom. He kick started the Austrian School of Economics which is the opposite of Keynes’ socialism big government control. He brought the issues to the fore and challenged that Government is the problem. The enemy of freedom and liberty. And, that only in the marketplace is every need best satisfied. In one fell swoop, he pinpointed the reason why socialism can never succeed. The entrepreneur investing his own capital is infinitely responsive to the buyer’s demands. If he fails, he pays a severe price.

“A bureaucrat differs from a nonbureaucrat precisely because he is working in a field in which it is impossible to appraise the result of a man’s effort in terms of money.” – Bureaucracy

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TECHNOLOGY:: Skype me?

Wednesday, January 31, 2007

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Skype Me™!
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XPfails – luggable – Slow Down

Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Luggable has just slowed to a crawl. Maybe a reboot will clear it?

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TECHNOLOGY: It might be a great offer, but you’ll be on your own

Tuesday, January 30, 2007

http://tinyurl.com/2jozf2

PaperPort Professional 11 Special Upgrade Offer

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Visioneer is happy to announce the newest scanner to the extraordinarily popular Strobe line – the RoadWarrior. As a Nuance customer, you are eligible to receive a substantial discount on the RoadWarrior before it even hits the stores. Purchase your new RoadWarrior today for only $169.99 – a $30 discount – just for being a Nuance customer. Simply enter the promotional code below in the checkout process and you will automatically receive your discount plus free ground shipping! But hurry, this exclusive offer expires on February 2, 2007. Click here to order yours today.

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As a Nuance screwee, I would NOT buy anything from these folks based on what they say to quote Judge Judy “if your tongue came notarized”.

These are the people who screwed me on “IBM” Via Voice. To which, I blame both IBM (their name was on the box) and Nuance.

Visioneer ain’t on my hit parade either. I got screwed when their Strobe was not being supported or drivers created for various windoze releases. All “silent” of course. I found out after I bought or tried to upgrade. A plague on their houses. Also, I have had lost of “unsupport” from them with their Paperport line in the past.

So here we have the hit parade, this one announcement hit every one on my don’t buy list:

IBM — Misleading me in who would support the product.
Nuance — making me pay for nonsupport
Strobe — nonsupport and selling gear with no drivers
Visioneer — nonsupport of current versions in the past

If you deal with any of these four, be warned. Don’t come whining to me that you got screwed. Learn from my screwing!

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TECHNOLOGY: TrustyFiles has it all

Monday, January 29, 2007

http://www.trustyfiles.com/index.php

TrustyFiles

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TrustyFiles is Ultimate P2P – the top high performance multi-network file sharing software with the most advanced features.

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An interesting possibility

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RANT: If the FCC has any value, it should be here

Monday, January 29, 2007

http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070127/NEWS/701270365

$31,000 cell phone bill stuns Sarasota retiree
By TODD RUGER

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SARASOTA — Oliver DeSofi’s normal cell phone bill is about $150 on a family plan, and he used about 183 minutes on his phone in October.

But when the 77-year-old retiree opened his Cingular Wireless bill in November, he saw $21,420 in roaming charges for more than 4,500 calls from Nicaragua — where he’s never been — to numbers he’s never called.

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What a croc. To put this fellow thru billing hell! This is by no means an isolated case.

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XPfails – luggable – mouse unresponsive

Sunday, January 28, 2007

woke up this morning, always a good thing, to find an unresponsive mouse. Reboot. Seems like the mttf is a day. Less if I exercise it. Argh!

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XPfails – luggable – Mouse begins to flake

Saturday, January 27, 2007

Sigh. Reboot.

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