My recent post about the pony leads me to wonder where are the classic jokes and fables found? I can’t think of any off the top of my head but the pony is an example. It also is blocking my thinking. But it will come to me.
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INTERESTING: Where are the jokes and fables?
Sunday, May 27, 2007
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INITIALISMS: TEOTWAWKI
Sunday, May 27, 2007TEOTWAWKI
The End of the World As We Know It
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INTERESTING: Mnemonic, Metaphor, or Jargon
Sunday, May 27, 2007http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mnemonic
Mnemonic
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A mnemonic is a memory aid, and most serve an educational purpose.
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Colloquialism, Metaphors, Slang, Shorthand, or Jargon … or the ultimate in a quick wisdom transfer?
So when I say YMMV, what is it?
Acronyms and initialisms?
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MONEY: “Honest money” will be horded; fiat paper will be used.
Sunday, May 27, 2007FROM STOP INFLATION NOW
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I struggle with Say’s Law. It says that bad money drives good out of circulation. Obviously! If I have a gold ounce and 700 frbnies, which will I use for the item? Yup, goodbye furbies. So how does one get people using “honest money”? Any honest money? See the Liberty Dollar, Ithica Dollars, or egold. It’s all the same problem. “Honest money” will be horded; fiat paper will be used. The gooferment can then inflate (i.e., tax) us to poverty. Until TEOTWAWKI! I’m befuddled.
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INTERESTING: Taxonomy of blogs, forums, and wikis
Sunday, May 27, 2007FROM LINKEDINBLOGGERS
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Re: Blogs vs. Wikis — a personal observation and experience
Posted by: “Peter Quodling”
Sat May 26, 2007 11:42 am (PST)
The comparative use of wikis, blogs and forums are quite simple…
Wiki’s are for shared (and validated) imparting of knowledge…
Blogs are for editorializing personal opinion (and fact) but without
ratification be anyone else…
Forums are for dialogs…
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An excellent taxonomy!!
Wikis for sharing knowledge; blogs for editorializing; forums for dialogues.
Even an old injineer can understand it.
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JOBSEARCH: The Turkey Farm
Sunday, May 27, 2007http://home.comcast.net/~v2y2r0n27rhj6y/TURKEY/index.htm
Is my opus on job seeking and my “help” to anyone “transitioning” from unemployment to earning status. fwiw. What an ego to think I can show anyone anything, but I have “miles on the old odometer of life” and the scars of unemployments past to show for it. You may learn from my mistakes.
LIBERTY: Dona Nobis Pacem
Saturday, May 26, 2007It’s Memorial Day weekend. Unlike many, I am thinking of all the “boys and girls” who have died thru the decades. I won’t demean their sacrifice by political speech. I despise the politicians who use this time for their venial purposes. I’ll just say a prayer for all their souls, wonder what wonders they could have created, and wish for peace. I’d like to support the troops by bringing them all home today. In the alternative all I can say is “Donna Nobis Pacem”! But on Tuesday, I’ll “poison pen” the “leaders” for peace in my time.
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ALUMNI: The Alumni db I use is down
Saturday, May 26, 2007I have it on good authority that the replacement for mcALUMdb will be back on line at the end of the month. My source is a very honest Jasper, and I believe he believes that. But at the risk of sounding like our loveable cuddly Curmudgeon, I’d ask “which month?”.
Seriously technology projects usually miss dates, and this one is no exception. Only Jasper Jottings is like clock work. A ranting raving clock, but always ready for your after Sunday Mass coffee. (No cheating and reading it on Saturday afternoon.) Any way, a lot of my processes (the way I do stuff) keyed on the mcALUMdb for the Class Years, so they need retooling. I have a lot of the data just not in quickly accessible format. (i.e., a a fast directory as opposed to an Outlook contact record). It’ll all be better when I dump Microsoft later this year.
In the meantime, the new son of mcALUMdb will be so much better. Excuse me, I have to answer the door, the bridge salesman is here.
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LIBERTY: Schoolgirl hero ‘acted on common sense’
Friday, May 25, 2007http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news/
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Schoolgirl hero ‘acted on common sense’
March 31, 2007
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Laura, who was returning to her Longreach home from St Margaret’s Anglican Girls School in Brisbane, managed to revive the driver, who lifted his foot off the accelerator and pulled the bus to a halt.
If the bus had failed to stop, it could have ended up in a river.
Laura then found a torch and evacuated the passengers from the bus before ringing an ambulance and coach operators, Greyhound.
Roma police will nominate Laura, who does not yet have her driver’s licence, for a bravery award, but she says she was just following common sense.
Roma police Inspector Graham Coleman yesterday described Laura’s actions as heroic, saying: “She’s obviously saved injury, if not the lives of people on the bus.”
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And, excatly why do we, they, anyone have “driver’s licenses”?
Good people can do it fine without the Gooferment’s involvement.
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TECHNOLOGY: Skype on a free blog
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Would like to know how you set up the Skype thing?
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Sure, no problem. It’s straight forward one you get the concept.
By way of background, I like tinyurl, and others like it. It makes ANY stuff, like your email address, into a url. Spammers can NOT harvest your email, because it’s an URL and doesn’t look like an email.
Neat concept.
Skype is another neat concept. Free phone calls. Verizon’s worst nightmare. So, I wanted the kool balloons on my blog. The fact that I’d be the first to get them made it kooler.
With the free, and unequaled, wordpressdotcom in addition to not having javascript, it prunes a lot of stuff out of the things you can put on there. When it would NOT go on, I asked about Skype. And they put it on their queue. (I’d like to have some visibility into THAT queue!) Hey for free, I wouldn’t listen to any whines.
I just kept poking around with Skype, and the errors that I could cause the free, and unequaled, wordpressdotcom, and eventually made the connection. The free, and unequaled, wordpressdotcom says “http good; all else bad”. So I wondered how to make Skype into http.
First, I went to the Skype site for a url that I could use. They had nothing but those kool balloons I wanted.
Second, I gave up in disgust.
Then, when I was putting an email into an url for display on the blog, it hit me. Transform the Skype command into a url.
Sure enough, I was able to use tiny url to turn the skype commands, that are unacceptable to the free wordpressdotcom, into valid urls. I put those URLs in a blogroll called skype. Played with the labels to make the display pretty. Had some people test it. It works. If you have skype installed. If you don’t you get an ugly error.
Neat. Not as kool as the balloons. But still better than naught. I told the nice support fellow from the free, and unequaled, wordpressdotcom about my trick and he was impressed. That made an ITSJ’s day complete.
FWIW
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