LINKEDIN: Measuring your LinkedIn contacts

Sunday, November 4, 2007

(1) Not easy to do.

(2) I watch my LinkedIn-ites pretty carefully, I have an excel spreadsheet that use to track. However many adjustments are needed to reconcile.

(3) In my spreadsheet, I have a column that takes the first character of the last name with the formula =UPPER(LEFT(celladdr,1)). That establishes what I call a panel.

(4) A separate sheet in the workbook creates a 1 in the A column if the panel cell is an “A”. B column tests B. and so on until Z. Row and column summaries look for errors.

(5) I hate when on LinkedIn people silently leave. I don’t want to keep them if they don’t want to be linked, but I would like to know that they have left. This is one of my gripes with LinkedIn. How do you handle the “leavers”?

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TECH HARDWARE: Palm’s Sneakwrap Warranty

Sunday, November 4, 2007

http://weblog.infoworld.com/gripeline/archives/2007/10/palms_sneakwrap.html?source=rss

InfoWorld Gripe Line | Ed Foster
October 30, 2007
Palm’s Sneakwrap Warranty

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Indeed, if you follow in the reader’s footsteps on Palm’s website (which as I write this on Oct. 29th remains exactly as he described), it is obvious Palm is trying to hide its warranty. The logical places where Palm should tell a potential customer about the 90-day warranty are silent on the subject. Perhaps the most absurd example is the “compare” page which shows more than 40 comparative features for the E2 and two other Palm handhelds but fails to mention the fact that one (the Palm TX) has a one-year warranty while the E2 and the Palm Z22 have the 90-day warranty.

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Looks like Ed nails Palm on this one. And, I was toying with the idea of getting a PDA again. Palm’s off the list.

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INTERESTING: Heard from an old

Sunday, November 4, 2007

I heard from an old military buddy from a long time ago. (He found me.) But it points out how bad the inet is for establishing identities and finding people. Any suggestions? I ran into the same problem with old high school chums. Unless they are looking for you, it’s nearly impossible to look for them. So where are you — David Robles, Robert Bob Wotring, and Bill Chrin? Also in the class was Army Captain Profitt, the “old” Army Major, and the “young” Marine Major, and the CID guy. teaches me how stupid i was not to keep better notes, pictures, and such. Sigh!

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RANT: The word “poor” is different in the USA

Sunday, November 4, 2007

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WalterEWilliams/2007/10/31/are_the_poor_getting_poorer

Are the Poor Getting Poorer?
By Walter E. Williams
Wednesday, October 31, 2007

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Poverty in the United States, in an absolute sense, has virtually disappeared. Today, there’s nothing remotely resembling poverty of yesteryear. However, if poverty is defined in the relative sense, the lowest fifth of income-earners, “poverty” will always be with us. No matter how poverty is defined, if I were an unborn spirit, condemned to a life of poverty, but God allowed me to choose which nation I wanted to be poor in, I’d choose the United States. Our poor must be the envy of the world’s poor.

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We have to recapture our language. The politicians manipulate us with words like “the poor”, “poverty”, and “lower class”.

Like that Nigerian fellow, who when interviewed on why he wanted to come to America, answered incredulously “your poor people are fat”.

Sign that guy up to be a politician. He has diagnosed us and given a thumbnail description.

So the next time you hear a politician whining about money for the poor, look for his “cut”.

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FUN: injineer

Saturday, November 3, 2007

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/016406.html

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I am reminded of an incident that occurred during the “Reign of Terror” in France. It was a busy day for the guillotine, as the condemned lined up to face their fates. The first person, a young man, was led to the scaffold, placed face up on a long board; the order of execution was read, and the signal was given for the blade to drop. It did, but – due to a malfunction – it stopped less than two feet from the head of the condemned man. The official in charge observed that, as the man had gone through the ceremony, to have repeated it would constitute double jeopardy. He was thus released and allowed to go free.

The next victim, a woman, went through the same ordeal, with the blade dropping to within a foot or two of her neck and she, too, was released. This happened two more times, much to the consternation of the execution officials. Finally, a condemned man – who happened to be an engineer – was led to the scaffold, forced to lie face up on the board, and listen as his order of execution was read. Just as the blade was about to drop, he looked up and exclaimed: “I see the problem!”

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Obviously an urban legend. A real injineer would have fixed the problem after the first malfunction. Try it again and hope for magic is Microsoft attribute.

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NEWJERSEY: Ballot Question #4 Change “idiot”– Vote NO!

Saturday, November 3, 2007

http://thebehavioranalyst.wordpress.com/2007/10/22/vote-yes-on-public-question-4-in-new-jersey-on-nov-6-2007

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Unfortunately, since 1844, these inappropriate and offensive words of ’idiot’ and ‘insane’ have been used to refer to people with disabilities in the State of New Jersey’s Constitution.

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Now we can have a few jokes about anyone who votes in New Jersey IS an idiot suffering delusions that anything is going to change.

Now that the laughter has died down. I urge a “no” vote.

I’m in a snit. We don’t have Initative and Referendum that everyone promised us. We have a State Supreme Court that says our votes don’t matter. And we have a corrupt gang calling themselves “government” that thumbs their nose at us voting themselves ever richer portions of the public treasury.

So, “no”, “no”, “no” … and I’m going to hold my breath until I turn blue.

This is meaningless. And they let us vote on that! “barbara streisand”

Argh!

Just vote against incumbent politicians and “no” on everything.

Stop cooperating with the gooferment’s nonsense.

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NEWJERSEY: Ballot Question #3 Green Space — Vote NO!

Saturday, November 3, 2007

http://www.njkeepitgreen.org

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On November 6, 2007, New Jersey voters will be asked to approve the Green Acres, Farmland, Blue Acres and Historic Preservation Bond Act of 2007. By authorizing the state to issue $200 million in bonds, the Act would provide much-needed funds to keep the state’s open space, farmland and historic preservation programs afloat for one more year.

You can decide the future of our state’s preservation efforts by voting yes on November 6th and spreading the word about public question #3. We need your help to preserve New Jersey’s parks, natural areas, clean water, farmland and historic treasures.

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Now if the politicians want to give us green space, then let them organize a charity and tin cup for funds. It makes no sense to me to run people out of the state by artificially making real estate more expensive.

Unless you’re one of the “landed gentry” who support the gang in DC, Trenton, and locally. Then, Green Space makes perfect sense. Don’t put your own money at risk. Let the taxpayer pay. So they use our stolen funds to overpay for the local toxic dump and they reap the rewards. We get to pay the taxes and the higher costs. Dumb!

And, what about the “poor” folks who can’t afford “green spaces”? They pay or else. Senior citizens on fixed incomes. The squeezed middle class. The poor. We all play through the nose in hidden and not so hidden costs of “green space”.

Another problem that gooferment creates and then rides in to “save” us.

Argh!

I urge a “no” vote.

I’m in a snit. We don’t have Initiative and Referendum that everyone promised us. We have a State Supreme Court that says our votes don’t matter. And we have a corrupt gang calling themselves “government” that thumbs their nose at us voting themselves ever richer portions of the public treasury.

So, “no”, “no”, “no” … and I’m going to hold my breath until I turn blue.

This is meaningless. And they let us vote on that! “barbara streisand”

Argh!

Just vote against incumbent politicians and “no” on everything.

Stop cooperating with the gooferment’s nonsense.

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FUN: The Peel P50 perfect for 1000$/barrel oil!

Saturday, November 3, 2007

http://www.flixxy.com/tiny-car-review.htm

Top Gear’s Jeremy Clarkson reviews the tiniest car ever manufactured and shows you the possibilities when getting around the office.

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The Peel P50 was a three-wheeled microcar manufactured in 1962 by the Manx Peel Engineering Company. It was designed as a town car and was advertised as capable of seating “one adult and a shopping bag”. The car currently holds the record for the smallest-ever automobile to go into mass production, at just 134 cm (53 in) long and 99 cm (39 in) wide, with a weight of only 59 kg (132 lb). The vehicle’s only door was on its left side, and equipment included a single windscreen wiper, and only one headlight. The P50 used a 49 cc DKW engine which gave it a top speed of approximately 61 km/h (38 mph), and was equipped with a three-speed automatic transmission that had no reverse gear. Consequently, reverse motion could only be achieved by pushing, or lifting the car using the handle on the rear and physically pulling it round. Despite its diminutive stature, the Peel P50 is street legal in the UK.

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What a hoot!

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NEWJERSEY: Ballot Question #2 Stem Cell Boondoggle — Vote NO!

Saturday, November 3, 2007

http://www.nj1015.com/absolutenm/templates/?a=8414&z=3

Corzine Spends $150,000 to Back Stem Cell Question
Wednesday, October 31, 2007 – Associated Press
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Multimillionaire New Jersey Gov. Jon S. Corzine is putting his own money toward getting voters to approve borrowing $450 million for stem cell research.

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So why do they have to steal our money to fund such a worthwhile activity?

Yup, you got it. We’ll pay but who’ll benefit. Certainly not us.

Argh!

Just vote against incumbent politicians and “no” on everything.

Stop cooperating with the gooferment’s nonsense.

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INTERESTING: Government is a meme that can kill us

Friday, November 2, 2007

http://www.keenefreepress.com/mambo//index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=650&Itemid=36

The Government Hoax Print
Monday, 29 October 2007
Written by Marc Stevens
Tuesday, 21 November 2006

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The government hoax is probably the oldest, most pervasive and stubborn of hoaxes. It’s the belief in non-existent “states” and “nations” and that “government” is both legitimate and necessary. In the geographic area of the North American continent commonly referred to as the “United States,” it’s claimed only “government” can provide the service of protecting “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.” This is nonsense if only for the reason “government” has no duty to protect anyone and their property.

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One has to question the doubt of a meme that is not questioned by anyone else?

Or, at least no one that matters.

It’s not as if our questioning is going to give any of the politicians, bureaucrat, or sheeple a reason to lose any sleep. But for our own sanity, let’s just admit that it’s a fiction. A fiction that can kill all that oppose it. Think of that lone protester Tiananmen Square.

250px-Tianasquare

That guy had stones!

Do you?

Gooferment may not exist, but those tanks do!

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