There’s a programmer’s proverb that “You never find the last bug!”
But that’s no excuse to stop looking for it.
wellđ
RANT: You never find your last typo in that “perfect” resume
Monday, February 19, 2007
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RANT: Why don’t appliances … …
Saturday, February 17, 2007… … have a secret compartment for paperwork?
… … why don’t extended warantied send you a sticker to put on the box?
… … argh!
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RANT: Not a good day TV and car dies!
Saturday, February 17, 2007The car wouldn’t start. Probably a battery. What a pig.
The TV started to act up. I blamed the cable. The cable guy just came and blamed the TV. Arghh! On hold with samsung now. Argh!
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TECHNOLOGY: Removing RSSBANDIT
Friday, February 16, 2007Not that there was anything wrong with it. It’s just that Google’s READER displaced it.
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XPfails – luggable – BLOGDESK failed or xp?
Friday, February 16, 2007Today, I was using blogdesk. I composed a post and sent it to wordpress. BLOGDESK just sat there. I assume trying to connect. Breaking the cycle put the whole box into a stoppage. Reboot. A long cycle because it was applying maintenance. Argh! So, what was the failure? All I know is that BLOGDESK lost my post. Not that is was so valuable. More so that I forgot to save a draft before it published. It should do that. Everything appears to be working now?
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LINKEDIN: How many identities are “empty rotting shells”?
Thursday, February 15, 2007>What email do you use on LinkedIn?
>Posted by: “Ed Callahan”
>Wed Feb 14, 2007 7:19 am (PST)
>You can and should have as many emails in your profile as possible.
Understood. I have lots.
>then brokers communication with you via your primary email.
That’s part of the problem. People think of their employer’s email as “theirs”. It’s not.
>you should use an email you own as your primary email – I’m with you on that.
Glad we agree to agree agreeably. As opposed to agree to disagree either agreeably or disagreeably. (Whaaa, like the Aflac duck commercial!)
>I like the other suggestions you make, but in some sense they are moot.
Not so sure, that I agree with the LinkedIn design of primary email. If I was king, I’d insist that each LinkedIn-ite have TWO working emails. Primary and secondary. And, I’d double LinkedIn’s email load (notice how free I am with other people’s resources), so as to ensure it works. (It would ensure that you don’t miss messages.)
I have at least two correspondents who have lost their access to their primary email account AND forgotten their passwords. Interesting? (One bozo kept it on the computer she had to turn back in.) So she has no way of recovering her profile.
If I was the “King of LinkedIn” (hey that rhymes), I’d decree that LinkedIn would test for “life at the end of the wire”. Hasn’t happened to me on linkedin, but it has on my ezine, where are readers email goes bouncing due to death. Awkward, but one should know these things.
I wonder how many of LinkedIn’s millions are dead (user died), disabled (user’s email innoperative), lost (user not interacting), zombies (shells constructed by other), abandons (user walks away), or in one way or another “empty rotting shells” (are there other types of strawmen). Someone might crassly say that its to LinkedIn’s benefit to inflate the numbers with these empty rotting shells and they have no incentive to bulldoze inactivity.
So, imnsho, LinkedIn’s email architecture is flawed. And, it doesn’t have robust process and procedures to ensure “liveliness”.
Am I the only one who measures “days since last contact” in my network? The empty rotting shells play havoc with your score. (See like some players of the Linkedin “game”, score on how many scalps they collect, I’m much more sophisticated. I score by days since last significant contact. Pinging you with a plaxo or cardscan email address update doesn’t count. That’s a better “game”.)
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RANT: How many guns do they lose?
Wednesday, February 14, 2007From Tom’s Hardware Guide:
DOJ Report says FBI Loses Three Laptops a Month
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A Department of Justice audit has found that the Federal Bureau of Investigation loses approximately three laptops per month. The FBI loses the majority of the laptops, about 2.64 a month, through simple forgetfulness while 1 laptop a month is stolen.
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Your gooferment at work! Argh!
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RANT: ROAD IDIOTS this morning
Wednesday, February 14, 2007The roads were icy this morning. We didn’t get the blizzard the weather people predicted. (Weathermen, economists, and politician are the only people who can be wrong and still get paid!) The crazy nuts of the road were zipping thru like it was a summer’s day. Several of them wound up in the ditch. One us tractor trailer got me to say a good irish word when he went three wide at (my guess) 75! Argh!
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TECHNOLOGY: GOTOMYPC is a neat utility
Tuesday, February 13, 2007GOTOMYPC
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Get Secure Remote Access with GoToMyPC
GoToMyPC is the fast, easy and secure way to access your PC from any Web browser or wireless device in real time.
* Access files, programs, email, and network
* Increase your flexibility and productivity
* Work on your office PC from home
* Travel and use your PC remotely
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Well, it is handy. Not cheap. $180 per year. And it does apparently work flawlessly. My biggest problem is that WXP decides randomly that it doesn’t want to communicate with the outside world any more. Sometimes nothing but a reboot will make it start again. That’s not gotomypc’s fault. But, when I want it to do it’s magic and it don’t, guess who gets the blame. Not Microsoft for it’s hunk of junk. Will I lose this capability when I move my “shop” to Linux?
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XPfails – luggable – OUTLOOK locks up; Plaxo suspect?
Tuesday, February 13, 2007Outlook with Plaxo Update were “not responding”. I suspect that was the problem again.
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LINKEDIN: LinkedIn-related Yahoo Groups that I am moderating
Monday, February 12, 2007Ferdinand John Reinke
http://www.linkedin.com/in/reinkefj
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XPfails – luggable – Looks like Plaxo?
Monday, February 12, 2007It 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?
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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
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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.
{blah blah blah}
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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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TECHNOLOGY: Surfing net is top pastime for elderly
Friday, February 2, 2007http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?
xml=/news/2007/02/02/net02.xml
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, 2007http://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, 2007The 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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<a href=”skype:reinkej?call”><img src=”http://download.skype.com/share/skypebuttons/buttons/call_blue_white_124x52.png” style=”border: none;” width=”124″ height=”52″ alt=”Skype Me™!” /></a>
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