FROM A FRIEND’S FACEBOOK STATUS
“Maraming pasalubong sa iyo pag punta mo dito”
so being the fat old white guy injineer I am, I applied Google Translate to the opportunity.
“Many presents to you when you go here”
Guess it loses something in translation?
Interesting that the technology allows us an insight that we were previously denied?
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Posted by reinkefj
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From: Bebo Service <service@noreply.bebo.com>
Date: July 31, 2010 8:31:43 AM EDT
To: reinkefj
Subject: New message from Jolyn Newburn
Ferdinand Reinke
You have received a new message from Jolyn Newburn on Bebo.
Please click below to read the message:
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Come play with me Jolyn Newburn
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That’s it for me. This is strike about thirty. I sent them two messages about it. No response; nothing done.
I’m too an impressionable fat old white guy injineer to be getting these emails. What it the old lady saw them. She’s be hurt.
I don’t need a start up social network that has NO standards.
Argh!
I’m gone!!!
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Posted by reinkefj
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From: Caremark
To: Caremark Participant
Date: Sent: 07/19/2010
Subject: We are about to contact your doctor for a new prescription – Case ID [#144609535
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One or more prescriptions enrolled in our automatic prescription renewal program have no fills remaining or will expire soon. CVS Caremark will contact your doctor to obtain a new prescription for you. If your doctor approves the new prescription, your order will be shipped within 10 days. If approval is not received, CVS Caremark will notify you.
This is an automated message. Please do not reply to this message. The security of your personal information is important to us. If you have further questions, Contact Caremark to ensure a secure transaction. You may also call the toll-free number on the back of your benefit ID card.
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CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This communication and any attachments may contain confidential and/or privileged information for the use of the designated recipients named above. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you have received this communication in error and that any review, disclosure, dissemination, distribution, or copying of it or its contents is prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately by telephone and destroy all copies of this communication and any attachments.
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Copyright 2009 Caremark All rights reserved.
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* 2 item(s) in this order was/were voided
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(1) This is sent to her on a closed web based email system. So why can’t I just reply to this message?
(2) How CAN it be sent to someone else in error?
(3) Why not just mention the drug and the doctor without making me hunt through their obtuse “portal” looking for it?
(4) Once an item is “voided”, it no longer is part of the “order”. (Argh!) And, “unfindable”.
Did ANYONE ask the Users of this pig what share of lipstick they wanted?
Argh!
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This is what is wrong with Obamacare, and insurance in general. If I was paying the bill, then I wouldn’t have to jump through hoops to make the system responsive to our needs. Right now, the LAST thing I need is more irritants.
Argh! Squared!
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p.s., I still can NOT find what drugs they magnanimously voided for us!
And how can you copyright an email message? Guess they haven’t heard of “fair use”.
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We apologize for any inconvenience you have experienced. The reason you see 2 items mailed and 2 items voided is due to the prescriptions were entered 2 times by our pharmacy. The 2 prescriptions that were duplicated were voided. Again, we apologize for this inconvenience.
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Posted by reinkefj
FOUND A YAHOO QUESTION THAT I COULD ANSWER (imho)
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/answer;_ylt=AnDzu2zMsPMLW.rD3Y1O9fwazKIX;_ylv=3
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Manhattan College Scholarships?
I really want to go to Manhattan college and I have the grades to get in…i think. But i need scholarships in order to pay for it because my family does not have much money. I was wondering when they open the scholarships, I have been to the site but I dont see how I can apply for their scholarships. Do i need to apply to the college first? please help me!!
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Well, first, my new found future alumni, we have to be sure we’re all talking about the same school. “Manhattan College”, the one in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, specifically sees the “poor” as its forte. First one to go to college, those who have “the smarts” (not NECESSARILY the great test takers), “the poor” (folks who don’t have a 7M$ New Zeeeland yacht, but are “rich” to most schools) are valued applicants. So you need to do some leg work.
Get all your numbers in order. How much do you have to go to school? (Don’t be discouraged if its zero. Just be totally honest). Then, figure out in your own mind (write it down) what your goals are (Be specific. Write them down. Use colored crayons if you have to.) For example, I want to give the poor of the world the first color tv that they can afford with unlimited ediucational access. Or, perhaps, I will build the first widget and secure my parent’s financial future. What’s your passion and how does MC fit into that goal. (Note, goal, not dream. You’re going to do it!) Write down all the things that you’ve done that make you an asset to MC as a student (i.e., pick up litter when I walk anywhere; help old people cross the street; write birthday cards to nursing home residents),
Then, it’s time for action. Make two appointments down at our Manhattan College. ONE The Dean of the School you want to go to and discover if there is “chemistry” between your goal and MC. TWO the nice ladies down at the Financial Aid office. (After having read EVERYTHING cited below about Financial Aid. Nothing to turn people off as when they have to repeat what’s on the website.) Let them show you how to pay for your education. (You might have to get a job while in school. How dedicated are you to your goal? Where there’s a will, there’s a way.
And, I hope I’m alive to report your first job in Jasper Jottings! (The daily achievement journal of my fellow Jaspers, the alumni of Manhattan College)
Good luck,
fjohn68
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SO I GO TO SAVE IT, AND GET YUCK!
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DOWN FOR TWO HOURS. NO WAY TO REPORT IT.
(Sigh)
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Shazam, my answer is posted. How did that happen?
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http://www.freedownloadaday.com/2010/07/18/make-annotations-on-web-page-bookmarks-with-icyte/
Make annotations on web page bookmarks with iCyte
July 18th, 2010
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A free service, iCyte should work with recent browsers (they support IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari) for saving pages; once those pages are saved, you should be able to pull them up with just about any web browser.
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Might be helpful for citations on my blogs?
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Posted by reinkefj
http://www.freedownloadaday.com/2010/07/17/format-citations-and-build-a-bibliography-with-easybib/
Format citations and build a bibliography with EasyBib
July 17th, 2010
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It’s one thing to thoroughly research and write your paper, thesis, dissertation, or even letter to the City Council; it’s another thing to get all the citations right. After all, unless you’re only compiling your own data, you are no doubt depending on the work of others. And we all know that we need to give credit where credit is due, meaning you need to cite those sources. But how do you correctly and accurately give your sources? And what format should you use?
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So of course I had to try it. :-)
Reinke, Ferdinand J. “RANT: Bailouts Are Welfare and Theft Is Just Theft « Reinke Faces Life.” Reinke Faces Life. WordPress, 19 July 2010. Web. 19 July 2010. <https://reinkefaceslife.com/2010/07/19/rant-bailouts-are-welfare-and-theft-is-just-theft/>.
Seems to work nicely.
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Posted by reinkefj
>legacy sends notice of page going down AFTER it’s down
And, of course, the conflicted message: “email us” just not by replying!
Great IT architecture change. I guess the purpose is to generate revenue by forcing people to sponsor guestbooks. If the guestbook was reasonably priced, then they might have a change. But in this case, they are “grave robbers” trying to increase their bottom line
This accentuates the need for micropayments. Imagine that reading an obit cost a penny, or some fraction there of. WIth 300M people, let’s say 10% read the obits. (Probably higher!) That 30M times 1¢ of a Million Bucks! That would more than pay for the site. Plus ads. Plus all the other stuff they sell.
It probably has to be Visa or Amex to do it. It’s got to have strong cryptology, and audit ability. But it could be a real winner for some credit card company.
It could be tied into single use credit card numbers that also would need strong cryptology and account ability.
Wonder when someone other than a fat old white guy injineer will realize it?
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Posted by reinkefj
VERIZONWIRELESS BACKUPASSISTANT is supposed to backup my contacts from my cell phone.
The website has a last backup date of June 11, 2010; I changed some yesterday.
It’s NOT keeping a current backup.
Why?
For warned is fore armed!
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Posted by reinkefj
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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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Advisor, Computer Governance Committee at Manhattan College
Editor / Publisher at Jasper Jottings
Greater New York City Area
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