Reinke Faces Life

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http://www.naymz.com/faqs.action?section=3

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How does Naymz work?

Naymz has built a proprietary technology which “speaks” to the advertising platforms of the search engines. Naymz relies on paid search advertising to post your personal listing. Paid search advertising is also know as “Sponsored Links” in Google, “Sponsor Results” on Yahoo, and “Sponsored Sites” on MSN Search. Naymz pays all variable fees charged by the engines directly, and subscribers pay Naymz a flat fee. Naymz automatically links your listing to the profile portal page which you create.

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Playing with it. Let’s see if it brings me that bix bux cxo job in 08824. ;-)

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https://www.trufina.com

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What is a Trufina Identity Card?

Your Verified Trufina Identity Cards are customizable views of information about you that you share with others. Think of it as an electronic version of your driver’s license. Since it is customizable, you can restrict what verified information you show to others. Want to show your city but not your home address? Or prove your age to someone without revealing your full name? You can create multiple credentials for various situations, such as online dating, reputation management, or buying and selling goods through online auctions or classifieds. You control who sees which cards, and nobody can view your ID card without your permission.

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I’ve added a reputation service to my arsenal of tools. Why? People thought my recent networking email might have been spam or phish. Arghh!

Ask to see my identity at www.Trufina.com!

http://profile.trufina.com/reinkefj

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This morning, BLOGDESK started to time out when it was attempting to update the free, and unequaled, wordpressdotcom. Now there are a lot reasons: netowrk, software on each end of the wire, or the rain. :-) I can’t point the finger yet. But, you can be sure when I can, I will!

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Update: As of 1400 est, it’s all working. I don’t know who to blame. But since it’s still raining, I’ll have to allow the Intelligent Designer off the hook. All others, I have my eye on you! Argh!

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http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/2007/11/mlb-game-downloads-still-inaccessible.html

11.06.2007
If You Purchased MLB Game Downloads Before 2006, Your Discs/Files Are Now Useless; MLB Has Stolen Your $$$ And Claims “No Refunds”

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2nd Update: Baseball Think Factory has publicized the discussion.

Update: Just got off the phone with a MLB customer service supervisor.

“MLB no longer supports the DDS system” that it once used and so any CDs with downloaded games on them “are no good. They will not work with the current system.”

Great. Just effing great. … As I told the supervisor, this is right in line with how wrong-headed and stupid and ass backwards MLB does everything.

I was told there is absolutely nothing MLB can do about these lost games. Plus, they said my purchases were all “one-time sales” and thus “there are no refunds”.

No refunds? As Lee Elia would say: “My ******* ass!”

My info has been submitted to some other MLB department which will review things and see what they can do about either getting me the games I paid for or refunding my $280.45.

So if you have downloaded any games prior to 2006, get those discs out and try to watch them … then call MLB at 866-800-1275 and demand they refund your money.

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Hence, my policy, no drm ever. Period. No excuse. No way; no how!

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http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Hushmail-Privacy-Limits-Revealed-89283

Hushmail Privacy Limits Revealed
Significant difference in java, non-java versions
01:20PM Friday Nov 09 2007 by Karl

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Hushmail offers encrypted e-mail services for the paranoid and/or privacy conscious. The company uses cryptographic and encryption protocols OpenPGP and AES 256 to scramble the contents of messages stored on their servers. According to the company, “not even a Hushmail employee with access to our servers can read your encrypted e-mail, since each message is uniquely encoded before it leaves your computer.”

However, Wired News’s threat level blog notes that this protection only goes so far. The blog notes that one version of the company’s platform contains a loophole that allows law enforcement to request un-encrypted messages en masse, defeating the purpose for some of the service’s regular clientelle:
A September court document (.pdf) from a federal prosecution of alleged steroid dealers reveals the Canadian company turned over 12 CDs worth of e-mails from three Hushmail accounts, following a court order obtained through a mutual assistance treaty between the U.S. and Canada.

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Don’t bet your freedom on anything you don’t control.

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http://tinyload.com/

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TinyLoad – a file upload service started in Columbus, OH by a student of The Ohio State University – offers a solution to the overwhelming mayhem. The service allows users to upload a file once and distribute to various storage platforms depending on size or other requirements. TinyLoad does not currently account for the 80+ sites listed on Mashable, but includes more popular services like RapidShare, Amazon S3, FileSend, EasyShare, DivShare, and five others.

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Interesting. Store “important” files in multiple free places. Can you spell “encryption”? But an interesting concept for disaster recovery purposes.

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OK, Plaxo has limits. So, I’m trying to wrestle out a new strategy and tactics to get around the limits.

Argh!

I took my outlook alumni file (6k), exported it, imported it into gmail, and then imported that into Plaxo30/Comcast.

Looks like it took. No all of my fields but name and email.

Good enough?

Now it will be interesting to see the sync process?

fastening my seatbelt for a bumpy ride,
fjohn

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http://support3.plaxo.com/al/12/1/article.asp?aid=1348&bt=4n

http://support3.plaxo.com/al/12/1/article.asp?aid=1195&bt=4n

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Typically, applications like Outlook or Vista Mail have very large limits on their address book sizes, while online services like Yahoo or Hotmail limit their address book sizes to 1,000 entries or less. Below are a few suggestions on how to manage your address book so that it remains below the 10,000 threshold.

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So, I’m disconnecting all my Outlook files from Plaxo.

Then, I’m going to create a Plaxo syncing file.

Copy Outlook folder to the syncing one. Sync. And, copy back.

Argh!

Better ideas?

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http://reachby.com/faq

http://reinkefj.reachby.com/

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1.1. What is Reachby.com?

Reachby.com is a free service that hosts online contact pages. Here you can create a personal contact page with your own Web address that will read something like http://yourname.reachby.com. Use your link to sign messages in online forums, classifieds, when you leave comments on other sites, etc. People can click on your link and read a greeting from you or any other information that you will choose to share. Visitors of your contact page will be able to leave you a message via contact form. All communication will go to your personal email address that is not displayed on the contact page, protecting you from spam.

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I’m a sucker to try any new free service. :-)

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http://www.emergencyemail.org

The Emergency Email Network, Inc.

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Your Complete Email Address (Example:me@aol.com)
Your Home County or Parish used as password when you update
5 digit U. S. Zip Code helps better target what you receive and used as password when updating

Check off the following OPTIONAL information topics below that interest you You’ll receive emails on these. Your information’s safe with us – Privacy Statement

• Severe Weather Information
• HEALTH ALERTS from VueTOO Health Alert Network
• FINANCIAL RISK ALERTS from VueTOO Financial Network
• Please Send Me Information about HOW TO GET the
  Edwards Disaster Recovery Directory 2007 Edition
  Americas Leading Source for Disaster Recovery Products & Services
• CYBER Threats to your computer (limited time Free trial)
• HOMELAND SECURITY Code
• Organ Donation
• Daily Weather Forecasts (if available)
• Routine Blood Drives/Red Cross
• MISSING CHILDREN AMBER ALERTS (as available)
• DO NOT SEND National Disaster News
• Keep this service FREE. I agree to receive
  info from our Sponsors WHO make it possible

Check how you receive your email:

• Computer or Blackberry
• Cell Phone
• Digital Pager
• FAX

Time Setting (OPTIONAL)
You can BLOCK all NON Emergency message content during the hours you specify below. (This option is useful for pager and wireless devices.)

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Seems pretty useful. YMMV!

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http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_42/b4054047.htm

OCTOBER 15, 2007
NEWS & INSIGHTS
Microsoft Wants Your Health Records
Its new service will store your data in one place—and search ads could make it pay

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Step into a medical office, and you’re faced with a paradox of modern medicine. Just beyond the receptionist’s desk are all sorts of cutting-edge medical technology. Computed tomography scanners. Electrocardiogram machines. Bone densitometers.

But as you approach that desk to check in, you take a trip back in time. There the receptionist hands you a clipboard of forms. For the umpteenth time you fill in your name, age, allergies, medical history, and the like. For all the medical breakthroughs created by technology, medical records remain an anachronism.

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“We can trust Microsoft to keep our health data secure? — Right!” — Luddite

You’ll be surprised to know that I signed myself and Frau up for the service. I haven’t loaded any data yet, but I’m planning to.

Why?

I can hear it all the way from here.

Because, it would have been, and would be useful, in various circumstances.

If I had been more on the ball, then her experience at Pton Hospital where they really screwed her up, might not have happened, or been well documented.

One of the reasons I went to those corny “frau med alert” email was to keep a chronology clear in my head and establish a trail.

I’ve tried several similar services and they either folded, got lost, or were cumbersome. I’m always willing to try stuff if I can see a benefit. No matter how obscure.

Anyway, it might be useful in an emergency, or in litigation.

Besides the insurance companies, the hospitals, and the gooferment already have it all keyed to SSN, how much worse could MSFT make it?

imho!

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UPDATE

People are beginning to weigh in on the topic.

Microsoft’s Health Vault Allows You to Store and Share Your Electronic Medical Records – But Should You?

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http://g.ho.st

A most interesting concept. Perhaps, this is the “computer” of the future?

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>http://www.iheard.com/stations/folk/acoustic/liveireland

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<a href=”http://www.iheard.com/stations/folk/acoustic/liveireland/”><img src=”http://www.iheard.com/images/iheard_badge.gif” alt=”LiveIreland 1 radio – iheard.com” style=”border:0;”></a>

LiveIreland 1

Irish Folk, Traditional And Celtic Music From Dublin, Ireland. Liveireland Is One Of The Worlds Most Listened To Irish Internet Radio Stations.
Station Rating:
Country: Ireland
Language: English

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In my never-ending search to recapture the glory days of skool and the Red Garter in Greenwich Village of the Sixties, I like: irish, folk, or Gay Nineties banjo quartet music.

Here’s a new search tool for internet radio.

Don’t you just love the net!

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I put my skype number into grandcentral and it doesn’t work. I pick up the skype call but grand central doesn’t recognize it. :-)

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http://www.note2email.com/write

NOTE2EMAIL

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Send quick notes to your email address in one easy step.
No need for passwords or usernames.
Note it down and send it , as simple as that !

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Very neat. Very clean. Very … elegant.

Love it. Am quickly integrating it into my SOE.

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UPDATE: One “curve” if you send one to someone else, then you have to tell them not to reply to it. Replies appear to go to the bit bucket. Great service; needs improvement. Definitely a keeper.

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UPDATE: The developer responds. How kool is that?

From: Andrei Aldescu
Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 1:40 PM
To: Reinke’s Catch All Email
Subject: Re: What happens to replies?

Andrei

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[Of course, I have to have the last word!]

As you can see from my blog, I like it. It would seem “easy” (Easy for me, cause I don’t have to do anything.) to allow the inputter to supply a reply to address. That would make it the cat’s meow. :-) fjohn

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I’m sure he will be anxious to impress a blogger with 7 readers. :-)  W, MI, SS, F, MF, JF, GC … … and you thought I was kidding. :-)

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I was a TOPIX editor for two areas — Kendall Park and Manhattan College NCAA. I’ve dropped those activities as well as the Jasper Jottings Sports blog. I am re-focus-ing on things and there was no R for the I in the ROI.

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http://support3.plaxo.com/al/12/1/article.asp?aid=1344&bt=4n

http://support3.plaxo.com/al/12/1/article.asp?aid=1348&bt=4n

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Plaxo has limits on the record types you keep online. If you reach one of Plaxo’s synchronization limits, the sync process will fail. These causes include, but are not limited to:

AOL
Address book folder has over 5,000 contacts.

Comcast Webmail
Combined address book folders have over 10,000 contacts.

GMail
Calendar folder has over 10,000 events.

Hotmail
Address book folder has over 999 contacts.

Macintosh Toolbars (OSX)
Combined address book folders have over 10,000 contacts.
Combined calendar folders have over 10,000 events.
Combined tasks folders have over 10,000 tasks.
Combined notes folders have over 10,000 notes.

Windows Toolbars (Outlook, Outlook Express, Vista Mail)
Combined address book folders have over 10,000 contacts.
Combined calendar folders have over 10,000 events.
Combined tasks folders have over 10,000 tasks.
Combined notes folders have over 10,000 notes.

Yahoo
Address book folder has over 5,000 contacts.
Calendar folder has over 10,000 events.

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That makes Plaxo pretty much useless fmpov!

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Lessons Learned: I need a service that notifies others who could help me.

So where is www dot if I am off line dot com?

If could be as simple as a flurry of emails that go out, if I don’t reset the clock. Say, every X hours.

For a inet o holic like me, it could be every twelve hours. If I don’t check in, send the emails out.

I’ll offer the service for 29.99 per month and stuff ads in the emails and on the websites.

I’ll be a grazillionaire in no time.

:-)

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FROM A WINDOWS SECRETS EMAIL

Microsoft updates Windows without users’ consent
By Scott Dunn

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Microsoft has begun patching files on Windows XP and Vista without users’ knowledge, even when the users have turned off auto-updates.

Many companies require testing of patches before they are widely installed, and businesses in this situation are objecting to the stealth patching.

Files changed with no notice to users

In recent days, Windows Update (WU) started altering files on users’ systems without displaying any dialog box to request permission. The only files that have been reportedly altered to date are nine small executables on XP and nine on Vista that are used by WU itself. Microsoft is patching these files silently, even if auto-updates have been disabled on a particular PC.

It’s surprising that these files can be changed without the user’s knowledge. The Automatic Updates dialog box in the Control Panel can be set to prevent updates from being installed automatically. However, with Microsoft’s latest stealth move, updates to the WU executables seem to be installed regardless of the settings — without notifying users.

When users launch Windows Update, Microsoft’s online service can check the version of its executables on the PC and update them if necessary. What’s unusual is that people are reporting changes in these files although WU wasn’t authorized to install anything.

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Yup, just like Darth Vader. And you wonder why I’m departing the Microsoft fold?

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I love the free, and unequaled, wordpressdotcom, but I found a small flaw.

In building a site on GOOGLEPAGES, it just so happened that the page urls all routinely end in a period. However, when I put that url into the free, and unequaled, wordpressdotcom, it barfs building that link with the last period. Interesting. For the time being, my workaround is to use TUNYURL.

But I have to wait for Monday to report it to wordpress hq. They turn off the problem reporting mechanism to prevent Monday morning overload. I’m blogging it here because I always forget by Monday.

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One of the charities associated with my alma mater has annual golf tourney for scholarships. I have no affiliation with it. BUT, it might be nice to allow the folks that run it to set up an “identity” for that charity? Is such possible? Considering that you allow fakey politicians, why not a fakey charity?

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http://mashable.com/2007/08/29/monster-security-breech/

Monster’s Security Breach Larger than Thought
August 29, 2007 — 10:56 PM PDT — by Kristen Nicole

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The 1.3 million individuals whose data, including financial information, was stolen from Monster’s database may be larger than initially reported.

During the investigation regarding the theft, it was discovered that the website had been previously hacked. The exact number is still unknown, but could reportedly be in the millions. Monster has indicated that users should assume their information has been taken. As this wasn’t an isolated incident, the illegal activity has been impossible to pinpoint. Monster has lost between 200 and 300 job seekers and some employers’ accounts due to the issue.

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Like I said. Lot of blame there.

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FROM: Bloglines Customer Service

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Thank you for contacting us. Please refer to the discussion thread below for our response. If you need further assistance with this issue, please reply to this message describing the issue in more detail.

Thank you for allowing us to be of service to you.

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Web Form: [Suggestions]

Discussion Thread
Response (C.D.) 08/31/2007 08:12 PM
Hello,

Your suggestion is much appreciated, and we have forwarded your note to the Bloglines Beta team.

Over the years we have modified our site based on feedback like yours and from other Blogliners. Look for changes in the upcoming weeks and months, as we continue to build-out Bloglines Beta. We welcome your thoughts about Bloglines.

Please let us know if we can be of further assistance.

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Customer 08/30/2007 02:41 PM

Old Bloglines allows me to “keep as new”. So if I am whizzing thru and see something that I’d like to spend more time on I just check it. Beta Bloglines doesn’t do that. Or, I don’t see it. And, it doesn’t honor the oldblogline’s setting. This was the reason I move from Google to Bloglines. Hate to have to move again.

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Sigh! Why bother?

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http://www.groupsites.com/

CollectiveX’s Groupsites

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What are Groupsites?

Groupsites make it easy for groups to share, communicate and network. They combine the best
features of:

– Discussion forums
– Email lists
– Calendars
– Social networks

Groupsites are powered by CollectiveX; are FREE to setup; and can be public, semi-public or private.

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Interesting concept. You’re own social network. I’d suggest that it has a fragment of the solution. Jibber Jobber has a part. Yahoo Groups has a part. LinkedIn has a part.

Hmmm! Maybe I’ll create something for my fellow Turkeys, or just me?

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Any one else having the problem? Any one know why? Help?

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Interesting that it would let you look up just one email address. You have to create a file that it can import and check. And, it doesn’t always do that correctly!

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