Reinke Faces Life

Libertarians are always alert for “everything but the one thing”. It’s those “one things” that kill liberty. Cause everyone has their own one pet thing. Libertarians say “liberty for everyone, everytime, everywhere, no exceptions”. ;-) The big L libertarian political party has only one criteria. Everyone agrees “Never to initiate force to achieve political or social goals”. A pretty powerful principle.

The dead old white guys gave were Classical Liberals. Individual Freedom over the Conservative supporting King and Country. The DofI, Constitution, and BoR are all right out of the Classical Liberal playbook. We drift or “improve” at our peril.

We have lost the republic!

(A Republic is a representative system of government where there are strict limits on the government and everyone has their rights recognized.)

There have been failings. The DOWG themselves failed to “solve” slavery. The Civil War was a “tariff” war in disguise in which we lost the United STATES of America, and became the USA. The Socialists of the 20’s brought us “gubamint skools”, to import the German “cannon fodder and willing workers” philosophy to America, and made us stupid. FDR brought us socialism as a relief to the Great Depression which was cause by the Congress’ Smoot Hawley tariff. We lost the gold standard under FDR when he uncoupled government spending from taxes (i.e., unleashed the printing press fiat currency). We have an series of “presidents”, that have acted more like idiot kings: committing troops to stupid undeclared wars; meddled in the affairs of other sovereign countries, and pushed forth the democratic “advance auction of stolen goods” and “two wolves and a lamb” deciding what’s for dinner. Recently, the Military Commissions Act (The end of Habeas Corpus) and the Warner 2006 Defense Budget Act (President designates enemy combatants) have fundamentally changed the USA into AMRIKA. The next step is the North America Union of Canada, Mexico, and everything in between.

Remember Ben Franklin!

http://www.bartleby.com/73/1593.html

“Well, Doctor, what have we got—a Republic or a Monarchy?”

“A Republic, if you can keep it.”

I use the FOX as part of my get ready for LINUX. I was shown the blog to someone today and was stunned to find it didn’t rend correctly. Argh! FOX, OPERA, and NETSCAPE all work. But IE doesn’t!

I pinged WORDPRESS feedback and they came back lickty split. (See below)

I fixed that one. And several others. And, IE still doesn’t like it.

I’ll keep looking for the long links. Any idea what the right number of characters in a link is?

It displays correctly in FOX and OPERA! Darn MSFT.

—–Reply Message—–
From: M @ WordPress.com
Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 1:12 PM
Subject: Re: WordPress.com Feedback – reinkefj.wordpress.com

reinkefj wrote:
> I was showing my blog … our blog … after all I appreciate that you
> host it for free … to someone and he uses ie6. There was nothing on
> the side column. No seach. No most active. No nothing. Help?

Hi,
It was this post:
https://reinkefj.wordpress.com/2006/10/22/
jobsearch-how-well-does-your-unique-value-equation-sell/

There is a link it it:
http://www.nichegeek.com/
why_youll_never_get_rich_studying
_african_feminism_in_the_19th_century
It sticks out the side in IE6

If you shorten that link the sidebar will zoom back up.
IE7 would behave normally ;)

http://www.getdemocracy.com/

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Wired Magazine, May 2006

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Looks very VERY good to me.

http://www.privatephone.com

IT’S A FREE* PHONE NUMBER AND VOICEMAIL

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What is PrivatePhone?

* A NEW phone number, with BETTER privacy features, and a voicemail that gives you MORE CONTROL over your social and professional life.
* Access your voicemail messages any time, anywhere over the phone or on the web.

Is my PrivatePhone number really FREE?

* Yes, your PrivatePhone number is free. There is no obligation, no hidden charge. No Catch.
* PrivatePhone will be introducing future enhancements that will make your PrivatePhone experience even better; some enhancements will be available for a nominal fee, others for free.

How can I use my PrivatePhone number?

* Use PrivatePhone whenever you meet interesting people and want to get to know them better while maintaining control of your privacy.
* Use it on sites such as eBay, Craigslist and Rapleaf.
* When you want just your friends to hear your funny messages.
* These are just a few of the many uses for PrivatePhone; watch the videos for additional inspiration.

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Of course, I think it MIGHT be very useful for RESUMES, especially if you only have one line into your home, and confidential job search when you’re fully employed.

http://www.alphecca.com/

October 31, 2006
Hubble to be Repaired

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Finally some good news for the “aging” space telescope. From the AP:

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NASA will send a space shuttle to repair the 16-year-old Hubble Space Telescope, agency Administrator Michael Griffin announced Tuesday, reversing his predecessor’s decision to nix the mission.

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Something I can actually agree with Sen. Mikulski about. I am sure that there are plenty of folks who will gripe about the price tag but this country has wasted far more on far less.

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Now this is disappointing from a Libertarian. But, we all lose our heads from time to time. Heck, I’m sure I liked some benefit or another from the fascist Big Gubamint.

Why should I be forced at gunpoint to fix the Hubble?

It’s not “mine”. I certainly didn’t put it up there. No one came to my door — virtual or physical — and said “knock, knock! We’re collecting to put up a space telescope and would you like to kick in a few bucks?” A local boy scout did that for his Eagle project.

NO, using tax money, collected by violence on our fellow citizens, is immoral and wrong. No matter how neat the pictures are.

I always look at the margins. (Read the great Austrian economists to really grok it.) Somewhere, something was silently crowded out by this theft. Maybe a Mom could make a special cake. Maybe a Dad couldn’t buy his kid something they wanted. Maybe an investment was missed. Maybe a privatized Hubble was precluded. By stealing our money for this, they preclude us from doing that! It always happens because we live in a world of scarce resources.

We see the pictures; we don’t see the silent harm!

I hope that this Libertarian can convince that Libertarian.

http://www.jibberjobber.com/blog/archives/142

Here’s the topic/theme/question:

> Yikes! You just lost your job!

Hey, no surprise! The First Sunday of every month, I have a meeting with my mythical team of me, myself, and I. We discuss the implications of “the only paycheck you’re assured on is the one that is in the bank”. I’ve been expecting this to happen ever since I took the job.

https://reinkefj.wordpress.com/2006/10/04/
jobsearch-youre-only-as-good-as-your-last-
paycheck-you-cashed/

http://tinyurl.com/y2ll2y

> You’ve been so busy at *work* that you don’t feel your
> network is as strong as you would like it to be!

Kick myself in the ass. I knew better than not to trust them bastards. Sneaky SOBs. Can’t trust them. OK, now it’s time to find my “last job”. (Given my age, I’m only planning one more job max before I go teach, consult, and write. Shift job search activities from “passive and fussy” to “active and discriminating”. (Yes, there are other gears, frenzied & panicked & desperate hamburger flipper & WalMart greeter.)

>What are you going to do with (and to) your network in the next 6 weeks
> as you begin an aggresive job search campaign?

Week 1: Immediately, draft a press release! Ring up my three friends, consume a suitable number of adult beverages, and commiserate how life sucks. Update my Plaxo mini bulletin board with my new status.

Week 2: Reopen consulting efforts; tell existing clients that their free ride is over; retainers anyone?; contracts? orders?

Week 3: Notify my graduated turkeys that their tuition bill is due and they are now on the hook to help me. Reactivated the resume and automatic job feed on the NINE boards that I watch regularly (weekly).

Week 4: Notify my 900 LinkedIn contacts that I need their help. Notify the three job search groups I belong to that I am now in play.

Week 5: Message my 1750 fellow alums, who read my ezine, that I’m available to make big bucks. Message the other 9k fellow alums that I can be hired for wakes and weddings. Message the 3k of non-alumni non-linkedin contacts that I’m in play.

Week 6: Now, grow up, get over it, pull up your big boy shorts, and get to serious work. What IS the UVP and USP that I am trying to exploit.

>And, outside of your network, what job search tactics will you employ?

Machine gun mass mailing of it (resumes) to public lists.

Shotgun it to some various subset of good companies.

Rifle shots it at key targets of known entities.

Pistol shots putting it up close at personal networking meetings.

Job search is WAR. Hence the metaphor!

>Or your best networking tips related to job searches.

Awareness, prior to being nuked, that it could happen. The first Sunday morning of every month should have an hour dedicated to the topic. Fore warned is fore armed! Or is that four armed.

https://reinkefj.wordpress.com/2006/07/05/
turkey-seekers-need-a-monthly-staff-meeting/

http://preview.tinyurl.com/yfebmh

Establish which of your value propositions that you are going to sell by market testing. Test, test, and test! It’s not your opinions that count, it’s evidence that leads to results.

Follow a sales funnel approach. Selling yourself is not different than selling any other product or service. No, no, no, … … YES! It just wading thru the NOs to get to the YES.

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TECHNOLOGY: Sharewood Picnic 77 delivers a winner, three maybes, and six nahs. Same as last week!

http://www.masternewmedia.org/new_media/new_media_tools/
best_new_media_tools_of_the_week_20061105.htm

http://tinyurl.com/yxfnkl

November 5, 2006

New Media Tools Of The Week: Sharewood Picnic 77

Livia Iacolare and Robin Good

{Once again, they challenge us with new web services.}

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1. Windows Live Mobile http://mobile.live.com/GoLive/ is a service that brings e-mail, blogging, web search, maps, and driving directions directly to your mobile phone.

FJR> Nah, I want nothing to do with Microsoft!

2. PhotoShow http://beta.photoshow.com/home is a photo sharing service that allows you to upload pictures (even from URLs) and create slideshows.

FJR> Nah, why would I want another one?

3. Desktoptwo http://desktoptwo.com/ is a free web-based desktop that imitates the look, feel and functionality of a local computer, all contained within one browser window and fully accessible from any Internet-connected device.

FJR> Maybe, might be useful.

4. Instan-t Express http://express.instan-t.com/ is a web-based instant messaging service that allows you to sign onto public and IM networks with your existing usernames and passwords offering complete interoperability with MSN, AOL, ICQ and Yahoo! Messenger.

FJR> Nah, I already have MEEBO.

5. Compete http://www.compete.com/ is a search engine based on Yahoo! that records what its users are searching for to profile any websites they visit.

FJR> Nah, why would I want them to do that?

6. Zamzar http://www.zamzar.com/ is a service that allows conversion between a wide variety of different file formats.

FJR> Maybe, it could be useful in a pinch.

7. Wikiupload http://www.wikiupload.com/ is free file hosting service for all file formats including video, mp3 and images.

FJR> Nah, already have many such services.

8. Gickr http://gickr.com/ is a web tool that enables you to create animated gifs with whatever picture, even on Flickr.

FJR> Nah, I have no need for it.

9. Open Stock Photography http://www.openstockphotography.org/ is a site that helps designers find free stock photography.

FJR> Good, that’s a winner.

10. FundooWeb http://www.fundooweb.com/ is a mashup search tool that enables users to retrieve information from several sources in a single click.

FJR> Maybe, if it’s fast and easy.

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Always worth spending a little time with!

http://www.myuninstalledlife.com

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So one day I decided to look for alternatives. We’re starting to see interesting services online. You can’t find a complete replacement for your desktop using your browser (yet) but it’s getting there. So I decided to start this website to share my story of trying to get it to work. But I want to take it to the extremes! I want to challenge the technology!

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An admirable objective.

It’s certainly one way to deal with win rot!

I think with a healthy shove from a stupid Microsoft with Vista, there are three interesting “prime directives” of the users — use the web for everything, Linux not Microsoft, and wireless uber alles.

MYUNINSTALLEDLIFE is on the crest of the first wave. (Although I’m not sure what one does when the web is offline).

The second one is all those who are not going to pay Microsoft, or Dell / Intel for new hardware to run Microsoft’s new pig (Old hardware on Ubuntu works nicely!)

The third is wireless connectivity everywhere (free?) to use zero or thin footprint clients. (Although I don’t know what one does when that wireless ain’t there or is expensive?)

It is certainly going to challenge my view of the world.

I have always used my framework (Users – Systems – Apps – Data – Wire) where Systems covered Platforms and Operating Systems.

http://yetanotherguru.com/Component%20Security%20Approach.htm

I may have to rethink this paradigm.

;-)

http://www.resourceshelf.com/

A Brief Intro to Congresspedia
By Shirl Kennedy, Senior Editor

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http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Congresspedia

Congresspedia is part of SourceWatch, a wiki-based project of the Center for Media and Democracy, which defines itself as “a directory of the people, organizations and issues shaping the public agenda.” If you’re one of those people for whom the word “wiki” is synonymous with “chaos,” you need to know that there are real, live human editors behind Congresspedia — experienced investigative journalists, researchers who verify contributions and sources. A powerful concept. In true wiki style, anyone is welcome to register and contribute; you don’t have to use your real name.

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An interesting resource!

We need more ways to keep track of the criminals in Washington DC.