JOBSEARCH: Advising a fledgling turkey

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

FROM A CONVERSATION WITH A NEW TURKEY

(1) Remember they are operating at different speed than you are. Sigh.

(2) They probably haven’t read anything you’ve written, send them, or shared. If they did, they probably didn’t grok it.

(3) Bringing them up to speed is a drag. A heavy lift. A tiring experience. But, you could be creating a new “turkey master”. Patience.

(4) They never know “what they want to be when they grow up”.

(5) They have no concept of “elevator speech”.

(6) They look backward.

(7) They haven’t thought about their tools. Let alone invested in them.

(8) They need a lot of help.

(9) They think outplacement is good.

Patience. Seldom in men; never in women! Patience.

Remember the First Rule Of Being A Turkey Master: “First do no harm.”

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RANT: Making fun of the TSA; it’s too easy

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

http://www.lewrockwell.com/akers/akers73.html

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It gets better. Despite its “respect” for the now-departed departed, the TSA decided to hunt his ashes down for further searching, as if screeners hadn’t already pestered him and his son with swabs and X-rays and other voo-doo. He should have been easy to spot, according to the Star: his son, who “wore a red shirt and pink hat” was “carr[ying] the ashes in a box inside a garbage bag.” Still, “airport officials could not find” this distinctive duo.

Ah, the efficiency of the police state. And the sour grapes, too: since they couldn’t locate these terrorists who’d taken such crafty care to camouflage themselves and draw no attention, they punished passengers by closing the terminal. “About 500 people were evacuated from Concourses B and C for more than an hour, and eight flights were delayed.” Naturally, the TSA searched these victims all over again before sending them on their way. Dead men not only hijack planes, they also pass liquids and gels to the living.

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You can’t make this stuff up. And, you’re expecting these 8$/hour bozos to protect you from a terrorist? “barbara streisand”

No. If it wasn’t so serious, it would be laughable.

BUT, we are paying a huge price in time, money, and attention for this “security theater”.

Disband the TSA now. Return responsibility for security to the airlines. Sell off any airport and the ATC to the industry. Get the gooferment out of the airline biz!

Sigh!

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TECH SERVICE: PLAXO30 via COMCAST

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

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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TECH SERVICE: PLAXO30 has limits

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

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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POLITICAL: Hillary’s as qualified as the White House Pastry Chef

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

WHY THE DEMOCRATS ARE BACKING HILLARY
By Dick Morris Reports <dickmorrisreports@dickmorris.com>
By DICK MORRIS

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When she says she can “hit the ground running,” she pretends that she is addressing her vast public policy experience. But it is irrelevant that she was in the White House for eight years. So was the pastry chef. But what is relevant, and inescapable, is that she did lead the president’s crusade to overcome the efforts of the “vast right-wing conspiracy” to bring him down, and it is that experience which endears her to the base.

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You have to like Dick’s ability to distill an indictment of Hillary’s Presidential candidacy to two words … … “pastry chef”!

Love it.

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TECH WEBSITE: IMDB wants “extra authentication”

Monday, October 15, 2007

http://www.imdb.com

Internet Movie Database

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Welcome to the Internet Movie Database, the biggest, best, most award-winning movie and TV site on the planet.

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I wanted to ask a question about a movie so I endured the usual signup non-sense. (I use roboform to fill out forms and generate random passwords so it not too onerous.) But then we come to the security question, where I followed my usual policy of not giving them anything useful. “Mother’s maiden name?” “Maiden” “Maiden is the question!” How about “Mai den”. “OK” Argh! I answered their email. And now I am ready to (finally) ask my question. “Extra authentication required” HUH? What! “Give us amazon id, credit card, or sms my cell phone”. HUH? HUH? I don’t think so. Bye.

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FUN: Return to the scene of the crime

Monday, October 15, 2007

Memory lane. Back at my alma mater for a meeting and I’m sitting on the Quad where I went to High School from 60 to 64. Sigh! How things have changed. Never mind the girls all over. I saw two students walk down Senior Walk and two different guys at different times cut across the grass. Another student just walked down Senior Walk. Stunning. Sitting here just thinking about what could have been. Sigh! Almost five decades. How little I knew ad how little I appreciated. Different eras.

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FUN: Return to the scene of the crime

Monday, October 15, 2007

Memory lane. Back at my alma mater for a meeting and I’m sitting on the Quad where I went to High School from 60 to 64. Sigh! How things have changed. Never mind the girls all over. I saw two students walk down Senior Walk and two different guys at different times cut across the grass. Another student just walked down Senior Walk. Stunning. Sitting here just thinking about what could have been. Sigh! Almost five decades. How little I knew ad how little I appreciated. Different eras.

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TECH SERVICE: online contact pages

Monday, October 15, 2007

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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RANT: IMUS RETURNS

Monday, October 15, 2007

FROM DRUDGE

http://www.drudgereport.com/flashir.htm

THE RESURRECTION OF IMUS: RETURNS ON NATION’S TOP TALK STATION
Mon Oct 15 2007 07:52:30 ET

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In a dramatic and dazzling career rebound, controversial radio host Don Imus has secured a deal returning him to the airwaves on December 3 — this time on the nation’s most listened to talk station, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned!

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The stunning comeback is a defeat for those who protested and picketed Imus earlier this year.

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What a joke. I guess that all the theatrics with Hillary and Corzine were just for show.

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