Argh! When you click on a menu like File or Tool, I have to run the mouse pointer down the menu to see all the choices. They are their buy just invisible. Once the pointer passes over them, they stay visible. A new for of microsoft security? I’ll reboot when I have time, but that’s a hassle. And, every once and awhile, I get a worse problem. Argh!
XPfails – luggable – menus now invisible
Monday, December 25, 2006
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TECHNOLOGY: Free book summaries from WikiSummaries
Sunday, December 24, 2006http://wikisummaries.org/Main_Page
WikiSummaries
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Free book summaries from WikiSummaries, that anyone can edit! WikiSummaries.org provides free summaries of books, plays and other written documents. This complements Wikipedia, which is already an excellent source of information on authors and brief book summaries. Where Wikipedia leaves off, WikiSummaries will continue with character profiles, detailed chapter summaries, study questions, important quotes, analysis of metaphor and symbolism, etc.
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Neat idea. Only 37 titles to start but … look at wikopedia!
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TECHNOLOGY: The technology of Obituary Guest Books
Sunday, December 24, 2006http://www.legacy.com/TimesDispatch/GB/GuestbookEntry
http://obit.edwardsanddowdle.com/
Hey morbid topic, but technology is where you find it!
I do my “alumni news”. Part of doing that is reporting obits.
(Side note: Some folks have accomplished great things. Some have pages written about them. Some sadly have nothing. Don’t you wonder what yours will be? That’s a ghoulish idea for a biz!?!)
In doing this duty, I usually put in a small note as a fellow alum. (many times it’s the only one!), and I notice that Legacy is the big player. By my eye and unstatistically, they have 80% of what I see. They’ve even figured some different ways to monetize the biz. Extra charge to post a photo. Extra charge to keep it up for a year. Extra charge to keep it up forever. I’ve wondered what they charge. Just out of curiosity.
But today, I found a Funeral Home that has essentially duplicated the function. SO it was cheaper for them to pay to do their own then to pay Legacy.
Interesting?
Was to me.
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LIBERTY: High School Football … another broken glass fallacy?
Saturday, December 23, 2006This is (imho) an excellent indictment of “public skools” and their “teams”.
When everyone is forced by threat of violence, and that’s what taxes are, people have to scrimp on things they would rather do. The fact that they get the short end of the stick doesn’t make it any less painful. Like Basat’s “broken glass” fallacy, where everyone can see the beneficial economic activity in repairing a broken window, few if any see the thing that were precluded.
High School Football also creates a peer pressure. Don’t dare gripe about having to pay for it because those who want it will dump on you.
The essence of a free marketplace is that two people can make an exchange because they each perceive that they are better off after the exchange.
In the example of High School Football, where I am forced to exchange my money for the “benefit” of the team, is of little comfort if I don’t have enough food for my children to eat. It doesn’t matter if it is pennies. Let the High School Football team “tin cup” around the community and beg for funds. The alternative is there are armed thugs (the tax collectors, as bad as in the movie Robin Hood) will rob you a gun point for them. Suppose that the High School Football tax is what I need to send my child to art class, pay my magazine subscription, or contribute to my favorite charity. It really does NOT matter what I choose to do with what I would pay in the High School Football tax, it’s MY choice. Not yours!
Here in NuJerzee, we are driving people out of the state with socialism and its taxes. I’m sure that when I become a senior citizen I’ll be leaving as well. And it won’t be the weather that drives me away, it’ll will be socialism, its taxes, and its rules.
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XPfails – luggable – mouse goes nuts!
Saturday, December 23, 2006For the last two days, the mouse has been screwed up. It would page down on its own. Wouldn’t double click. I reloaded the software for it several times. Rebooted innumerable times. Never figured out why, but it seems to be working now. Arghhh!
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TECHNOLOGY: Bloggers Must Disclose Sponsored Posts
Thursday, December 21, 2006Dec 20, 7:54 PM EST
Bloggers Must Disclose Sponsored Posts
By ANICK JESDANUN
AP Internet Writer
Technology Video
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NEW YORK (AP) — A company that helps advertisers connect with bloggers willing to write about their products for payment will now require disclosures amid criticism and a regulatory threat.
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Oh thanks goodness, mommy government saved us from the big bad bloggers selling their souls and an unsuspecting public down the river.
Save me, save me, mommy government, from the big bad internet.
Yeah, like anyone should ever trust the net as the source of truth.
For the record, I haven’t found any one dumb enough to pay me for these rantings. And, when I do, you’ll be the first to know.
Could it be that the FTC saw the criticism moderating the blogosphere’s behavior and they ran up to the front of the parade to lead it? Nah, that would assume that they could do anything during the holiday season.
Sheesh!
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TECHNOLOGY: Borgata Casino in AC NJ has computer problems
Wednesday, December 20, 2006I guess I should try to get me resume in here. The “computers in the pits” have been down all day. And, everyone has frayed tempers. They can do the table accounting, order chips for the tables, rate players, give comps, or whatever else they do. :-) Guess they skipped reliability in their specs. Entertaining! I think they run windoze.
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TECHNOLOGY: The fellows over at Free Talk Live have a problem …
Wednesday, December 20, 2006… the fellow that made up their monthly torrent of their shows went MIA. They’ve asked me to help.
One problem: I don’t know squat about torrents.
By muddling around I made one torrent for demo purposes.
If you use torrents, please click on the link and let me know if you can get my torrent and play it.
Then, I’ll be a torrent guru having made one!!
http://www.inpursuitof.com/FTL2006-12-18.mp3.torrent
Try this a see if you can get their show.
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TECHNOLOGY: SKYPEIN not working
Tuesday, December 19, 2006Being an old bell shaped head, I am always fascinated with when the web can touch the PSTN (public service telephone network). Imagine being able to turn a ~4k laptop or desktop into a $9 phone. Great. Ever since Judge Green threw the snowball that started an avalanche! (He decided that the Bell “monopoly” would have to open up. We did have the best phone service in the world, universal service, a dedicated workforce, and Bell Labs. (That was a national treasure!) This was all for the sake of supposedly cheaper phone rates for business. Interesting that I don’t think we have seen the benefits of competition. It’s really not a free market. Now that would be great, if we had gone to a truly free market. Instead, we have a sort of regulated, sort of free, definitely regulated market.
So I’ve been playing with SKYPE. You can skype me at “reinkefj” (I know the name is a real surprise.) You can call me on 732 – 917 – 4816.
SKYPEIN isn’t working. For calls from a phone, it doesn’t “ring” on the laptop, but it will take a message. For calls from a pc, it does work correctly.
Yahoo Instant Messenger With Voice has a similar offering. Again, I’m “reinkefj”, or you can call from 609-489-5893.
Call me if you want to chat or just want to turn my notebook into a nine dollar phone.
Interesting! What the real future of the public telephone network will really be?
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TECHNOLOGY: Topix says “trust us”; they miss the point
Monday, December 18, 2006From: Admin, Topix [mailto:topixadmin@ex.topix.net]
Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 1:49 PM
Subject: RE: Feedback: BUG Sign up none
Hi there,
Thanks for letting us know. We are constantly working to improve our site, and I have forwarded your issue to our engineers. In the meantime, feel free to sign up using another email address. We will never share your email address, and it is not displayed publicly.
Admin @ Topix
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Sent: Sun 12/17/2006 8:20 AM
To: feedback2@ex.topix.net
Subject: Feedback: BUG Sign up none
Can’t use a gmail plus for an email. It’s a way of preventing spam. https://reinkefj.wordpress.com/2006/12/16/productivity-use-two-gmail-accounts-to-protect-an-isp-email-account/
Sorry can use your site until you support gmail plus signs.
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Just trust us. We’d never spam you. Or, make a mistake.
Yeahhhhhh
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