(MCBA — Mick Bahhh! — Mac Book Air)
In the fast task switch ALT-TAB, Firefox was missing from the applications.
I decided to reboot McBa to get it straightened out.
Argh!
Shades of Windoze.
I left Windoze to be free of reboots and corrupt data.
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Posted by reinkefj
… calling to wish a happy birthday.
Good thing it didn’t wake up the house lady.
Argh!
How stupid are people? Technologists?
And where were they last year?
Argh squared!
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Hello, welcome to a little thing called 750 Words
I’ve long been inspired by an idea I first learned about in The Artist’s Way called morning pages. Morning pages are three pages of writing done every day, typically encouraged to be in “long hand”, typically done in the morning, that can be about anything and everything that comes into your head. It’s about getting it all out of your head, and is not supposed to be edited or censored in any way. The idea is that if you can get in the habit of writing three pages a day, that it will help clear your mind and get the ideas flowing for the rest of the day. Unlike many of the other exercises in that book, I found that this one actually worked and was really really useful.
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Amusing little site that has a way of getting under your skin.
I’m using it to write my course and my next book.
It sort of fits my early morning persona.
Maybe like Sudoku, it too will ward of the dreaded Alzheimer’s?
No one can see what you write but you can share the automated analysis of that writing.
See me at: http://750words.com/entries/share/174852
ROFL, yeah, I’m that nuts!
Now all I need is a tshirt declaring that I’m an ITSJ and a fat old white guy injineer. (But then I repeat myself.)
LOL!
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Posted by reinkefj
Argh!
I sent a text message from the Verizon web site. (Yes, I was signed in despite the website’s design flaws about sign in.)
It gave me a response.
So I went merely on my way.
Never received a response. So I “texted” again from my cell this time.
I get a return phone call from the recipient asking me “if I’ve lost my mind”.
They received it and replied.
So, now I go check on the website and it’s like “what text message”.
If I have a tracking number AND the recipient, it can check.
Argh!
I don’t have the 27 digit tracking number. (OK, I made that part up about 27 digit. But it’s a lot.)
And, apparently it doesn’t log it anywhere on the machine. Or, warn you that you’re goign to need it.
But where did the response go?
Argh! Squared!!
Verizon — not recommended. (Not that any of the others are much better from what I understand.)
Argh! Cubed!!!
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Posted by reinkefj
(1) I experienced an outage Verizon Wireless Broad Band (VWBBie) network from 2230 Saturday 26 Jun 10 until 0547 Sunday 27 Jun 10. please explain?
(2) When was 24 hour support eliminated?
(3) Why does the 914 error point me to a non-working number?
Argh!
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Posted by reinkefj
http://portabilitypolicy.org/index.html
Your Portability Policy
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We have provided a set of questions and a few sample portability policies to help you get started. These are not intended to be comprehensive, and we expect that they will evolve over time. You are encouraged to add whatever topics or issues will help your users make informed decisions.
We aren’t trying to promote any particular policy, business model or technology. Rather, we hope to create standards that simplify communication and help customers make informed choices.
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I have my own personal portability policy.
If I can’t get “my” data out then the site, service, or software has to have a huge value proposition.
Be nice if all sites adopted this as a standard. Even if it’s a closed island like Facebook, it would be valuable to know that upfront.
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Posted by reinkefj
What’s wrong with the “security” people at the UK Mail Online?
They don’t set expectations and they don’t know that a password is a shared secret?
Argh!
I wanted to make a comment on one of their stories. Doesn’t matter which one. But here’s the saga.
Comment box asks for Name and Location.
OK, that’s not bad.
Then, to get it published, you have to give them and email and a password.
OK, that’s not too bad. (I have a page of one time passwords. But how many folks do? Most just reuse the same one.)
Then, it doesn’t like my password length. (I like 12; it wants 5 to 10. Do you think you might mention that on the page that asks for it. I feel like I’m playing gotcha!)
OK, that’s not too too bad. (I drop the last two characters to get to 10. No big deal!)
Then, it doesn’t like that I have a special character in it. (I like 26 letters, upper and lower and special characters at random — 26 lc + 26 uc + 10 digits + 4 specials = 66 ** 12. I always score strong on most password ratings.)
OK, that’s not too too too bad. I drop the special characters and readd the two characters I dropped before.
Then, it says we’ll email you a link.
OK, that’s not too too too too bad. I’ll just wait for the link.
Then, I find the email after a short wait — hey it’s a long way across the pond. It has the huge multiline link to click. But being a member of the “I NEVER click email links” church, I faithfully copy the link to my plain text editor, cntl a, cntl c, and got my browser and paste.
OK, that’s not too too too too too bad. I get a message that they’ll post my comment if they see fit.
Then, I read the rest of the email message and I find my password, my “shared secret”, my “carefully generated but mangled by their rules” password in the clear for any system or mail administrator to read. With the subject, “Welcome to Mail Online”. (Not to hard to id that!)
OK, that’s bad.
How many “security rules” did they break? How many “human factors design principles” did they break?
Now I have to go back and change my password, just incase someone wants to post something under my name.
Ok, that’s very bad.
I could ramble on to make more lines with “very very very bad”. But I’m bored with the topic. And, my ADADHDD is kicking in.
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Begin forwarded message:
From: communication@mailonline.co.uk
Date: ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
To: YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
Subject: Welcome to MailOnline
Thank you for registering with MailOnline
To authorise your new user account please click on the link below.
If comments on this article are unmoderated, your comment should appear shortly. If comments on this article are pre-moderated then your comment will be checked in advance and will be queued for checking. We receive thousands of contributions every day so please be patient. If your comment does not appear, this may be due to the volume we receive or your content.
To find out if comments under a particular article are pre-moderated or not, look just above the comments to see if they are “pre-moderated” or “unmoderated”.
If the above link does not work, copy and paste the link into the address box on your web browser.
Your log in details are shown below:
Email: YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
Password: XXXXXXXXXXXXX
You can update your details at any time – just tick the box marked ‘Update my details’ next time you log in.
Terms: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/terms.html
House Rules: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/house_rules.html
Privacy Policy: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/privacy.html
Contact: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/contactus.html
mailonline.co.uk
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Thank you!
Thank you for adding a comment to MailOnline.
Comments on this article are being checked in advance. We aim to publish as many as possible. MailOnline receives thousands of comments every day, so please be patient. If your comments do not appear, this may be due to the volume we receive or due to the content of your comment.
Why not get the latest News from Mail Online delivered via RSS?
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Posted by reinkefj
Employee Has No Right of Expectation of Privacy for Text Messages, Says U.S. Supreme Court
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The bottom line is that, according to the Supreme Court, Quon had no reason to expect that his text messages on his employer-provided pager would be protected by a shield of privacy, and that the Ontario Police Department’s behavior in looking at the text messages was not an impermissible invasion of Quon’s privacy.
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When hardware and service was expensive, then using your employer’s stuff MIGHT have made sense. Now with most everything dirt cheap, makes no sense at all.
As a matter of fact, it may even make sense to decline their hardware.
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Posted by reinkefj
Two items:
(1) No color tabs and other flaws in the tabs
(2) CARINGBRIDGE has a journal update window. Under Chrome, when you hit return it move the cursor back to the top. Too annoying to tolerate.
Falling back. Argh!
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