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TECHNOLOGY: wordpress appears to have posted something four times
Saturday, May 6, 2006Maybe it's me?
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TECHNOLOGY: Azureus appears to have had its own brain freeze last night
Saturday, May 6, 2006Azureus, a really sweet BitTorrent client (free of course), appears to havehad its own personal brain freeze. What is noteworthy was that it was unrelated to network issues.
My internet connection is rock solid now that I had my ISP come out to investigate. It turned out that the darn squirrels hand chewed the wire from house to pole down to bare wire. I assume that every time the wind blew the wire would ground out. Amazing that there was an signal at all. Any way back to Azureues.
I use Azerueus to help the fellows over at Free Talk Live http://freetalklive.com, my favoite podcast, deliver their content. They uniquely have a more than a year of their show online for free. As anyone who knows me, I'm big on "free".
(Free software, free podcasts, free beer, free love. Never did get all that free beer or free love that they were talking about in the Sixties. I'll now break out into my rendition of "Born Too Late". Oh no audio on your end. Too bad. Your loss.)
I have all their content here and when I'm home I put fire up Azureus to help them deliver their content. Azureus does come in handy for downloading Linux distributions, my strategic direction, from time to time.
This moring I awake to find Azureus "stuck" with red ballons on most of the files. A red balloon mains something is wrong. It was bizarre. Some files couldn't be found. Some couldn't scrape. So I shut it down. And brought it back up. Green (good) and blue (sadly trying) baloons came popping up all over.
Hmmm.
Maybe it just got lonely. But everything was back to normal. I don't know why. Wish all my software problems were resolved so easily. Have to keeo my eye on thsi troublemaker.
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Check out the comparison of eVoting and a Nevada slot machine!
Friday, May 5, 2006http://truthintech.net/2006/05/05/evoting-problems/
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The Washington Post has a decent article up about problems with eVoting systems.
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As an IT guy, I KNOW that eVoting will be fraudulent. It can't be other than that.
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That said check out the article and its comparison to Vegas Slot Machines!
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/graphic/2006/03/16/GR2006031600213.html
I love it.
Best mechanized voting proposal I ever saw was the one that kept the system pretty much similar but, with Open Source software, the machine printed a "receipt" for your vote. You then "cast" that vote in the ballot box. Everyone got a quick tally from the machine and the ballot box was there for verification.
It wasn't internet, phone, or absentee balloting but it was fraud proof.
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TECHNOLOGY: ViaVoice could be the answer … if you get it working!
Thursday, May 4, 2006http://ezinearticles.com/blog/archives/2006/04/audio-to-articles.html
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As I was mentioning strategies to repurpose old content that was long forgotten, it sparked Daniel to ask and offer this nugget: Wouldn’t it be easy to talk into a microphone for an hour or any time frame, then pay someone to transcribe the MP3 into a MS Word .doc…break the transcription into 350-500 word articles and you’d have an instant set of 5-20 articles to put into syndication. Just add title, keywords, a default resource box and submit.
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About two years ago I pinched a nerve in my neck, after a couple of weeks of rest, treatment, and drugs, I was able to return to work. But my right hand for typing was useless; maybe good for five minutes. I got a copy of viavoice and was able to dictate as opposed to keyboard. It's fraught with difficulties but it MIGHT be worth considering. With training, I was able to get 99+% accuracy on dictation (speak directly to software) and transcription (record voice and pipe it into software). It's not for the timid or faint of heart but it can be done. The software will also read to you (i.e., as if you were blind) but it was a weird experience to be read to in your own voice. I did try to get this running for a doc who wanted to write a book and I am struggling with it. So to quote the knight in with the Holy Grail, "Choose wisely!".
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TECHNOLOGY: LINKEDIN changed their UI (arghh!)
Thursday, May 4, 2006For the longest time, I would dump any contacts email address into LinkedIn with an appendage to the first name to remind me where I knew them from. If they susequently joined LinkedIn, then I'd pile on to connect with them. I rarely invite people. It's just to much hassle explaining it, cajoling them, and convincing them. If some one joins on their own, it is a done deal to do the old LinkedIn version of the Vulcan mind meld with them. So routinely dumping in large numbers of email address was a as needed task. Let them "stew" and once a week see who was "discovered".
Now LinkedIn doesn't let me put in "other contacts" so easily. Defeating an easy way to build a network. Arghh!
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TECHNOLOGY: Need to figure out how to load a Google calendar from an plain old ascii file?
Thursday, May 4, 2006Interesting there doesn't seem to be an easy way to pour data into the Google calendar. I have a flat file of birthday and name. You'da thunk it would be easy to pipe that puppy into GCal. Yuo'da thunk wrong. Hmmm!
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Yahoo survey winds up into its own spam filter
Wednesday, May 3, 2006How could that happen? It was amusing. Trapped by their own trap.
P.S. The YIM75 install still isn't working. Arghhh!
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TECHNOLOGY: The Free Software Foundation
Tuesday, May 2, 2006While primarily a Linux resource, remember that I am not going to Vista. So I am experimenting with Linux prior to taking the plunge.
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Achieve-IT! Desktop Goal Software 1.0 is Live
Monday, May 1, 2006http://goalsuccess.typepad.com/goaltips/2006/05/achieveit_deskt.html
Achieve-IT! Desktop Goal Software 1.0 is Live
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Well, I am finally at the point to set sail. Achieve-IT! desktop has officially gone live. A tour of Achieve-IT! desktop 1.0 is available here.
The Key features:
- A Simple way to identify and plan your dreams
- Secure database prevents prevents prying eyes
- Discover all steps required to reach each of your goals and make a simple plan to accomplish each one
- Microsoft Outlook(tm) integration. Export goals and tasks to Outlook calendar and task list
- Motivate yourself with the Motivate Me feature. The Motivate Me option to keep you on track and focused on your primary goal beyond today, tomorrow and next week by acting as your personal coach. It pushes you toward your goal in a different way every day.
- Alot more features I'm too tired to list right now (So you'll just have to download your own copy! )
It requires Windows XP and the .NET Framework installed in order to run.
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I'm playing with it.
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609-guy-luxe
Monday, May 1, 2006609-489-5876 My laptop phone number when I get my YIM 75 working. Arghh.
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