TECH SERVICE: The Best-ever Freeware Utilities List

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

tiny

http://techsupportalert.com/dr

The Best-ever Freeware Utilities List
“A kind of Wikipedia® for Freeware”

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There are a lot of great freeware products out there. Many are as good as or better than their commercial alternatives. This community-based site features our pick of the “best of the best.” If you disagree please add your suggestions for the benefit of others.

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Recommended!

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TECH SERVICE: Google’s online filing cabinet for medical records

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080519/google_health.html?.v=1

Google makes health service publicly available
Monday May 19, 10:24 pm ET
By Rachel Metz, AP Business Writer
Google makes public service that gives consumers electronic medical record access

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NEW YORK (AP) — Google’s online filing cabinet for medical records opened to the public Monday, giving users instant electronic access to their health histories while reigniting privacy concerns.

Called Google Health, the service lets users link information from a handful of pharmacies and care providers, including Quest Diagnostics labs. Google plans to add more.

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Well, I’m singularly unimpressed. I signed up. Figured it would be good to track Frau Reinke’s medical exploits. It’s dumb. And a giant waste of time.

Unless they have more they are not showing, it’s a waste of electrons. Never mind privacy. It doesn’t even get into the batter’s box.

Not Recommended!

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WRITING: TEOTWAWKI fiction — It happened in Church – Chapter Fifty One – Recon Recover School

Monday, May 19, 2008

It happened in Church – October 19, 1962
Chapter Fifty One – Recon Recover School

It Started In Church – October 19, 1962
http://www.itstartedinchurch.com

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RANT: Bad ‘public transit’ why?

Sunday, May 18, 2008

http://www.bluejersey.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=7829

*[new] Bad ‘public transit’ why? (0.00 / 0)

May I take a stab at it?

First, it’s not ‘public transit’. It is a gooferment boondoggle to reward friends, punish enemies, and feather various politicians’ nests. Once you realize that it will all make sense. Based on that standard, it makes perfect sense. It delivers graft, jobs for supporters, and a ton of campaign issues to run on.

Want good ‘public transit’?

It’s easy. Just throw the gooferment out of it. Spin it out to the employees. Auction it off. Of best, give every taxpayer a share of stock in it. No regulations, no laws, no mucking about in any way by the gooferment.

Want it faster?

Eliminate all taxes on earnings from providing transportation services.

We’ll have all sorts of solutions, sizes, and shapes. Heck, with that type of incentives, I’ll go into supplying the public with transit.

alibertarianin08824
at gmail dot com

by: alibertarianin08824 @ Sun May 18, 2008 at 10:18:27 PM EDT

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TECH SOFTWARE: GTDFOX seems to be broken

Sunday, May 18, 2008

Had to disable it. Next step figure out why it’s not working and fix. Or into the can.

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SOFTWARE: Back trying Window Live Writer again

Sunday, May 18, 2008

Well, BLOGDESK doesn’t allow me to tag my Jasper Jottings posts with class year. I’d have to go into the blog on WordPress to add them. That’s too much like work. Soooo, maybe there’s a better tool?

WLW is slow in keyboard response.

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WRITING: TEOTWAWKI fiction — It happened in Church – October 19, 1962 – Chapter Fifty – Samaritans going to Jericho

Saturday, May 17, 2008

It happened in Church – October 19, 1962
Chapter Fifty – Samaritans going to Jericho

It Started In Church – October 19, 1962
http://www.itstartedinchurch.com

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RANT: compassionate

Saturday, May 17, 2008

“In political life today, you are considered compassionate if you demand that government impose your preferences on others.” – John Stossel

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LIBERTY: why the state should withhold the institution of marriage because of a couple’s sexual orientation

Friday, May 16, 2008

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D90MQEEO0&show_article=1

Gay marriage opponents vow to fight Calif. ruling
May 16 11:21 AM US/Eastern
By LISA LEFF Associated Press Writer

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Even as same-sex couples across California begin making plans to tie the knot, opponents are redoubling their efforts to make sure wedding bells never ring for gay couples in the nation’s most populous state.

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With a stroke of a pen Thursday, the Republican-dominated court swept away decades of tradition and said there was no legally justifiable reason why the state should withhold the institution of marriage because of a couple’s sexual orientation.

The 4-3 opinion written by Chief Justice Ronald George said domestic partnerships that provide many of the rights and benefits of matrimony are not enough.

“In contrast to earlier times, our state now recognizes that an individual’s capacity to establish a loving and long-term committed relationship with another person and responsibly to care for and raise children does not depend upon the individual’s sexual orientation,” George wrote for the majority in ringing language that delighted gay rights activists.

Gay marriage opponents, meanwhile, derided the ruling as an example of judicial overreaching in which the opinions of a few justices trumped the will of Californians.

The last time the state’s voters were asked to express their views on same-sex marriage at the ballot box was in 2000, the year after the Legislature enacted the first of a series of laws awarding spousal rights to domestic partners.

Proposition 22, which strengthened the state’s 1978 one-man, one-woman marriage law with the words “Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California,” passed with 61 percent of the vote.

The Supreme Court’s ruling Thursday struck down both statutes.

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With all due respect to all the passions involved, the State has NO BUSINESS in the regulating of marriage!

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JOBFINDING: migrate from Lotus Notes to Exchange

Thursday, May 15, 2008

Lotus Notes/Exchange
From:
Barbara Swan(Barbara@Swangroup.net)
Contact:

barbara@swangroup.net
Date:
May 14, 2008
To:
John Reinke
Category:
Expertise request
Status:
Pending

Note: You and Barbara share a mutual connection.
You and I are indirectly connected. I am a technical search firm and I have a client looking for someone who can migrate from Lotus Notes to Exchange. This includes e-mail, virus,servers. Will supply 2nd and 3rd level support Notes client support. This is a full time positon located in the Somerville, NJ area. I would welcome any ideas or anyone in this space that you think might help me network. If you send me your personal email address, I will send you the details. I do hope you have time to help me. Thank you for thinking about this. Hope to hear back.
Barbara Swan
www.swangroup.net

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I have no more information. {Sargent Shultz says “I know nuthin, Nuting, Nothing at all”!} I put it all in the post. Writing me for more info is a waste of your time and mine.

If you’re interested, leave a blog comment with your name and email. I’ll either send you the contact info, or forward your info to them. Depending upon what they prefer. Either way, you’ll get something back from me.

Note: Don’t put your email in the comment itself unless you want spam from a trollbot. The comment form allows you to put your name, email, and website address.

You might want to include a link to a http://www.emurse.com/ resume or such similar site. I recommend making oneself easy to be found.

You might want to take time to write a short cover on it. You never know who reads these things. You might find your own lead from it (i.e., someone, looking to hire an X, finds me saying someone is looking for X, and ‘poaches’ all the people who responded.). YMMV

Good luck and good hunting.

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