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TECH: Updated main site
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ALUMNI: Finding Jaspers on a site without their help
Tuesday, October 17, 2006Ahhh, never underestimate the power of an annoying alumni.
As you probably know I collect alumni for my Jasper Jottings ezine. It’s a thankless task but someone has to do it. I guess?
Anyway, the above site has Jaspers in it. But finding them, is next to impossible, because the site doesn’t offer to search by undergrad school.
So for the longest time, (I can be very dense when I am focused), I kept “shaking that particular tree” trying to get them Jaspers to fall out. I knew they were in there. Eventually, I gave up. I’d come back to it from time to time. Sort of like a dog with its favorite spot.
Finally the Intelligent Designer or the Universe decided I suffered enough and I had an insight.
Google!
Lawyers want to be findable. So Martindale probably encourages the Google spyder to visit. If that’s the case, then my search is possible. FROM GOOGLE!
Off to the Google search site, I craft a very complex query:
“manhattan college” site:www.martindale.com
Bang it into the web browser, and poof! Out rolls 153 Jaspers ripe for the recruiting and reporting cycle.
Wasn’t that easy!
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LIBERTY: Gubamint IS the problem! It’s the thief that kills people.
Tuesday, October 17, 2006http://bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aef6sR60oDgM&refer=home
Bono, Preacher on Poverty, Tarnishes Halo With Irish Tax Move
By Fergal O’Brien
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Oct. 16 (Bloomberg) — Bono, the rock star and campaigner against Third World debt, is asking the Irish government to contribute more to Africa. At the same time, he’s reducing tax payments that could help fund that aid.
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Personally, I see nothing wrong with that move. I don’t think ANY taxes should be paid. It’s theft. Anything you can do to keep a robber from taking stuff is justified. The gubamint is just robbing him.
If I had a critique of him, and all the other so-called liberals, as opposed to the Classical Liberals who wanted Liberty, it would be to advocate the use of tax money at all for anything, even worthwhile things like poverty relief. After all, if it’s a good idea, then people will do it willingly. Loot at charity, disaster relief, telethons! Why send money to the government, incur a handling cost of say half, to have them send it to the charity? Go direct and avoid the middle man.
I think that poverty around the world is universally caused by governments. Just as in nature, an animal gets a parasite that eventually kills them, humans have this mental parasite called government. And, it kills.
Like the balance of good and bad bacteria in our bellies, we need government to preserve the peace and maintain order. (A joke in today’s world.) When it oversteps that simple mission, it causes all sorts of havoc.
Corrupt government, dictators that loot the treasury, and theocracies that enforce beliefs are all examples of impoverishing governments.
It’s further humorous, in a sad sort of way, that people are starving and we are talking a dealing with their governments as if they were legitimate. We should have a list of those countries that are impoverished and punish those governments with ostracism. Too many people in your country starving, you’re not invited to the next state dinner. If our businessmen can not trade with their counterparts in your country, then you can’t buy anything for yourself personally here. Loot your country’s treasury, don’t plan on buying investments here. Kill your citizens, and don’t look for our protection from their relatives. Maintain peace and order like a civilized government should, hey the door’s open, pull up a chair, how can we help you?
It’s government that impoverishes society, oppresses their minorities, and kills their citizens. Stamp out that plague of gubamint.
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PRODUCTIVITY: Makes you think about your priorities.
Tuesday, October 17, 2006http://up-file.com/download/95eded165190/
paradoxofourtimes-pps-1.pps.html
It’s an interesting thought provoking piece.
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TECH: What do you do with big files? Don’t email them!
Tuesday, October 17, 2006http://copylog.blogspot.com/2005/11/big-collection-of-free-file-hosting.html
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2005-11-30
A Big Collection of Free File Hosting
Collection of 50+ free file hosting from 10MB to 2GB that do not require registration, with detailed of file size limit, download limit and file life. Keep it for future reference.
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Came in handy for an emergency need.
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ALUMNI: Repub the jasper Jottings Front Lot to restore format
Tuesday, October 17, 2006http://home.comcast.net/~jxymxu7sn5ho9d/index.html
Republishing the Jasper Jottings Front Lot to fix format koed by isp.
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TECH: “Backup before using Beta or New Releases” but is that possible?
Monday, October 16, 2006http://www.pcmech.com/newsletter/viewtip.php?tipid=704
Backup before using Beta or New Releases
Sent on October 15, 2006 | Category: General Software
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It is always a good idea to have a full backup of all your data before installing *any* beta or new release software.
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Hey, wonderful idea. Tell Microsoft!
With the auto update, you have zero control over forced updates. they even reboot your machine remotely. Even if you aren’t ready for it to happen. Or, they do annoying nags to reboot. Or, slip stuff into fixes and ilk.
Even with the other bozo software companies, it’s not that easy to control the versioning.
With web-based software, it virtually impossible.
There are at least two levels of change control that needs to be considered — at the program level and at the data level.
The trend is in the other direction as is evidenced by the virtual abandonment of version numbers. (I still don’t see what is wrong with version 1, 2, 3, 3.5, 7.02.) It implies that there is compatibility at some level between the old and the new. I remember when software would be graceful about versioning. Heck, the monster Microsoft allowed Word to write old format data.
The user is the version control?
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TECH: GOOGLEPAGES doesn’t do PDFs
Monday, October 16, 2006I know everyone LOVES everything that Google does.
BUT it’s PAGES won’t host a PDF. My work around is to use PAPERPORT9 to convert a pdf into a jpg which Google Pages will host.
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LIBERTY: Your right to just compensation, as recognized Fifth Amendment, not applicable here
Monday, October 16, 2006Eminent Domain: Date of Valuation, Blight Declaration and
Constitutional Considerations
State of New Jersey
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In the case before Judge Costello, the gap between the declaration of blight and the filing of the complaint was 18 months (April 12, 2004 – October 21, 2005). The Court felt there was no substantial time delay in pursuing the condemnation process. Therefore, no constitutional implications were raised by the use of a significantly earlier date. The Court referenced the New Jersey Supreme Court case Jersey City Redevelopment Agency v. Kugler, 58 N.J. 374 (1971), where the gap between the declaration of blight and filing of the complaint was 9 years.
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I think that this whole thing STINKS!
The dead old white guys would be taking down the long guns from over the mantle and strolling down to the Town Green to form the militia.
I think that the gubamint should have to get permission from the people to use eminent domain. It’s a blunt tool that is too easy to abuse.
For their friends, they condem and pay top dollar for a toxic waste dump to put schools on. For their enemies, they’ll condem your house for any reason. And the Intelligent Designer will have to have mercy on you, if your property is wanted by a campaign contributor.
We need to stuff this genie back in the box!
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FUN Shorthand explanation
Monday, October 16, 2006http://www.aim.com/acronyms.adp?aolp=0
ROFL that they have to PUB a TLA list.
I notice the left out STFU or WTF or RTFM or W00T or … YMMV …
or my personal favorite TANSTAFL!
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