GUNS: Deadly at three quarters of a mile

Monday, October 16, 2006

http://www.washtimes.com/world/20060115-111618-6393r.htm

U.S. Army sniper nails record shot
By Toby Harnden
LONDON SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
January 16, 2006

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A single shot hit the Iraqi in the chest and killed him instantly. It had been fired from a range of more than three-quarters of a mile, well beyond the capacity of the powerful Leupold sight, accurate to 3,300 feet.

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And, we put up with tyrants, dictators, and other bad guys why?

One would think that the dead old white guy’s ideas about marque and retort could be applied usefully today. It would seem that bad people could be returned to the Intelligent Designer as sort of a warranty claim. Not that we, or our government, would do it. We’d just pay off like a reward.

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LIBERTY: 60MINUTES may not be above reproach but they did put some fuel on the fire

Monday, October 16, 2006

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/10/11/
60minutes/main2082140.shtml

Duke Rape Suspects Speak Out
60 Minutes’ Ed Bradley Talks To The Accused Lacrosse Players,
Who Have Never Before Been Interviewed

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The three players are white, and come from wealthy families; the accuser is black, a local dancer hired to perform at a team party. Over the past six months, 60 Minutes has examined nearly the entire case file, more than 2,000 documents, including police reports, witness statements and medical records. The evidence 60 Minutes has seen reveals disturbing facts about the conduct of the police and the district attorney, and raises serious concerns about whether or not a rape even occurred.

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I wasn’t there. Innocent until proven guilty.

And, it does sound like the DA used the case for politics.

What a surprise, the gubamint abused it power.

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JOBSEARCH: What is LinkedIn’s value

Monday, October 16, 2006

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000703.html

Many people can’t find the value in LinkedIn.

I think it is:

(1) making yourself findable (i.e., to headhunters);

(2) finding others (i.e., to solve “problems” or exploit “opportunities”; and

(3) strengthening weak bonds.

There are 398 Yahoo Groups about LinkedIn. Here’s the list:

http://groups.yahoo.com/search?query=LinkedIn&sc=0&sg=0&ss=1

Here are the ones that I have found are useful.

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/LICM/

LICM is especially for users of the LinkedIn Contacts Management Application developed by Arnnei Speiser of Mega AS Consulting Ltd.

http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/MyLinkedinPowerForum/

Linkedin Power Forum is to help Linkedin users power up their networking in order to do business better. To do business better, we need to communicate better, faster, and WITH LESS STRESS! Communication is POWER – and at 7.5 million users, Linkedin represents a LOT of power for you!

http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/LinkedinBloggers/

LinkedIn Bloggers is a forum for discussing how blogging and related technologies, such as podcasting, video blogging (vlogging)and wikis can support members’ professional networking using LinkedIn.

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MONEY: Get the old folks to prepare for the inevitable

Monday, October 16, 2006

Arghhh, I hate what old age does to the “old folks”. Sigh, and it will happen to all of us if we are lucky.

My thought this morning is very bleak. Old age, really old, not what I am, robs people of the facilities. Once vibrant intelligent people, capable of conducting their own affairs, are reduced by old age to mush. As you may or may not know, I have POA (power of attorney) on three old folks who are now in that state where they can’t comprehend their financial affairs and other arrangements. It’s sad. But, at least, I have the paperwork necessary to do it for them.

One should prepare for that day. Make your affairs as simple as possible and as automatic as possible. I am putting all my old folks on Paytrust. That service will receive their bills and present them to me via the web for disposition. I wish I had done that two years ago, when the first one started to falter.

Sigh, I’m not going to fall into that trap.

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TECH: Reviewing Sharewood Picnic 74 — 1 good, 5 maybes, and 4 nahs.

Sunday, October 15, 2006

http://www.masternewmedia.org/new_media/new_media_tools/
best_new_media_tools_of_the_week_20061015.htm

http://tinyurl.com/y8y6ks

New Media Tools Of The Week: Sharewood Picnic 74

1. Google Docs & Spreadsheets http://docs.google.com/ is a web-based editor that allows you to create text documents and spreadsheets.

Nah, do you really want to put your important stuff in a free web service. What do you do if the inet’s offline. And, whatif they lose their mind, your data, or interest. I’ll stick to Open Office.

2. ConnectMeAnywhere http://www.connectmeanywhere.com/ is a service that allows you to make worldwide calls from your mobile phone at the prices you are used to paying for from your desktop.

Maybe, this is worth further study.

3. Divvycast http://www.divvycast.com/ is a service that provides professional tools to create and publish your podcasts and get paid for that.

Nah, before I get paid, I have to pay them. Don’t think so.

4. Wengo http://www.wengo.com/ is a VoIP provider which allows you to make free PC to PC calls with all your friends, whatever instant messenger they have among Yahoo!, AOL and Jabber.

Nah, who needs yet another voip clone.

5. Joopz http://www.joopz.com/ is a web-based text messaging service that enables two-way communications from the Web to any mobile phone.

Maybe, might be worth playing with.

6. GroupMembesOnly http://www.groupmembersonly.com/ is a service that provides private and secure online environment for membership groups, organizations and associations. GroupMembesOnly provides a platform that integrates blogs, instant messaging, chat, discussion forums, event calendar, group libraries, video libraries, and a job database.

Maybe, not sure if I can use it. Depends upon how strict they are.

7. MyTicklerFile http://myticklerfile.com/ is a web-based tool that allows you to manage projects, track time and monitor your activities.

Maybe, “subscription plan” ain’t free.

8. PureVideo http://www.purevideo.com/ is a search engine for videos that uses a RSS feeds-based technology to return the most relevant results from sites across the Web.

Good, now that sounds like it might be a useful keeper.

9. Wild Apricot http://www.wildapricot.com/ is a web-based software designed to facilitate site administration for non-profit organizations (associations, charities, clubs etc.).

Nah, it’s too much like a business that wants real money.

10. Favoor http://www.favoor.com/ is a web service that enables you to create your personalized start page.

Maybe, that sounds like it might be useful.

My thanks to Livia Iacolare and Robin Good for making me think.

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RANT: NAMESDATABASE is a joke and probably a rip off

Sunday, October 15, 2006

NAMESDATABASE DOT COM

I didn’t give you the link because I don’t want you to go there.

I WILL put it in later in the blog, so the search engines will index it. But don’t click it!

Now the rest of the story.

Hey, I try everything. Like the Coal Miner’s Canary, when some inet thing kills me, you’ll know to avoid it. That’s me the a big fat yellow turkey that thinks he’s a canary, and has the illusion that he’s making his contribution to society. Don’t mess with my preconceived notions. And silly delusions. It’s like trying to put the lipstick on The Pig. It doesn’t make it prettier. And, it annoys the pig. (Wonder if there’s a picture on the inet of that?)

Any way.

I went to a now defunct high school. Me and my fellow alums are looking for the more than 66% who are “missing”. So, me, being in the inet maven I think I am, have been looking.

Back in January, I happened upon this site. SO I signed up, (part of finding is allowing oneself to be found), and gave it no further thought. Ran few search found nothing, or on the common names was buried in data. Oh well, on to other “stuff”.

Today, I get an email saying that they have 61 of my fellow Prepsters. (Catchy name huh?) Hey great. So I zoom over there ready to exploit.

Perusing the list, I notice right at the top they have some old guys who’s names I don’t recognize. (Hey NBD, I don’t know much.) But as I go down the list of alleged “prepsters”, there’s obvious girlz there. Huh!?! We was all boys. And then I notice that they have graduates in ’05 and ’06. It defuncted in ’71.

So, this site is worse than useless. It’s got garbage spewing forth. And, it is just adding to the noise

So avoid http://namesdatabase.com at all costs they just want to steal a subscription fee for trash.

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TECH: This morning GOOGLEACCELERATOR is “disconnected”

Sunday, October 15, 2006

I’ve seen that behavior before usually when switching inet connections. A stop and start usually clears it. Interesting that this time it doesn’t.

1-800-call-google

ring, ring, ring, … …

Just kidding, we all know that Google doesn’t take question calls from users. In India or anywhere.

Not that Microsoft is much better, but do you really want to make Google your preferred software vendor with their web-based paradigm for your email, rss reader, word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, web site operator – builder, and Intelligent Designer knows what else?

I don’t.

I think the jury is still out on the web services paradigm. Certainly it’s still out on the FREE web service

This unavailability of GOOGLEACCELERATOR points to or hints at the risk one is taking.

What do you do operationally when it’s not working? Who do you call for support or questions? And, what is your recovery strategy?

I joke about being “belt ‘n’ suspenders”, but seriously what do you do when your web services vendor is down and has your data?

It is one thing when you don’t care and it is a throw away. It’s another to give anyone the literal keys to your kingdom. If my vanity website goes away, who cares — my ego? It’s another thing if my professional website does.

Bottom line: If it is important, then it’s worth paying for. With that you should have a contract, support, and live person to talk to. And, also if it’s important, you better have a recovery plan for when your vendor screws up.

IMHO

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RANT: Dell’s DirectConnect is NOT a hit over at locker gnome

Saturday, October 14, 2006

http://wow.locker gnome.co/nexus/it/2006/10/13/dells-direct connect-strangers-with-candy/

Dell’s direct connect, Strangers With Candy!

by Matt Harley on October 13, 2006 at 10:20 am
Categorized by gnome report

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Personally, I am very apprehensive about the very idea of allowing Dell raps to move around my PC via some unknown remote agent. It’s a nice idea for those who are comfortable in allowing a company with what I feel to be a disgusting record in the realm of tech support, rummaging around their PC.

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Dell can blow sunshine up my backside with knee jerk offers of “cool new products” and other frivolous carp all it likes.

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:-)

but, how do you really feel?

I agree. I’ve been holding off buying a new notebook and will take your advice. I’ll go local and to Linux.

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TECH: LOOKOUT OUTLOOK blank lines are wanted

Saturday, October 14, 2006

Argh, now our old friend LookOut, aka Microsoft Outlook, has decided that blank lines can be removed from some messages when it feels like it. Who died and left Microsoft king to decide this. If it does do it, then it should have an option to stop doing it. Otherwise leave the messages alone. Argh!

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JOBSEARCH: If you don’t use PLAXO right … …

Saturday, October 14, 2006

… … you are missing a big opportunity for “viral communication”.

Plaxo, the address book synchronization service that I like, allows you to put lots of “stuff” in it. I wish I had a nickel for every turkey that doesn’t have their record fully filled out. I recommend using their mini-bulletin board as an ongoing job search update. It replicates to EVERYONE that has your card. What better advertising would you want? It’s viral. It flies below the radar. And, your contacts will see it if they look at the “update stream”. So, I tell “my” turkeys that they should load the darn things up with anything positive that they can say. It costs NOTHING!

Yet people don’t do it.

Why?

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