Google’s Notebook is a winner imho when I’m doing web research

Friday, May 19, 2006

I "prospect" for my fellow alums for a number of different purposes. What started as doing an alumni ezine morph into agreat job networking tool. Google's Notebook makes the process even easier.

FOr example.

I'm mining Ziggs. I have Zigg search for "manhattan college". It pops ten or so links per page for pages and page. Arghh.  It was too hard to go line by line and not lose one's place. I do this when time permits.

Now, with GNoteBook, I bring up the page with the links. Open each link in a new window.  Highlight what I want name and email. Tap on the note icon and it's capture. Pretty swift.

You need a Google email to use GNoteBook. If you need and invite, yell. 

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Posted by reinkefj

llegals granted Social Security?

Friday, May 19, 2006

http://www.washtimes.com/national/20060518-114132-2456r.htm

llegals granted Social Security
By Charles Hurt
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
May 19, 2006

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The Senate voted yesterday to allow illegal aliens to collect Social Security benefits based on past illegal employment — even if the job was obtained through forged or stolen documents.  

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Another socialist idea bites the dust. Think "Social Security Insurance", Medicare, and its ilk are broke now. Wait until everybody starts to draw.

Seems to me like we need to end the Ponzi scheme NOW!

Those already collecting continue paid by taxes. Those not yet collecting get a Treasury "Recognition Bond" dated for when they will retire. Those that are not yet in the system are on their own. 

José Piñera did it in Chile. 

http://www.socialsecurity.org/pubs/articles/12-13-04.html

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A defined-benefit system is not only hostage to demographic trends, it also has a fatal flaw: it destroys the link between individual contributions and benefits, or, in other words, between personal effort and reward. 

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You think that is harsh? Just remember that when the Titanic went down more First Class Men were saved than Third Class children. It's a tough world out there. Survival of the fitest. We make things harder on ourselves than it has to be when we delude ourselves into thinking Mommy Government will take care of us or Father State will protect us. Want to be secure in your old age? Save your own gold coins. What protection? Protect yourself and your neighbors.

Anything else is delusional! 

We need to get out from under the Socialist Ponzi scheme deliberately misnamed "Social Security Insurance" before it sinks us as a people.

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Posted by reinkefj

When running multiple platforms, use dedicated email to ensure consistency.

Friday, May 19, 2006

I use lots of platforms — LUGGABLE, OLDLAP, DSKTOP, WORKTOP, SPOUSETOP, ANCHOR, JOKE, BROKETOP, and OFFAL. Each of those has, or had, a specific purpose. When I wonder how I keep, kept, or am keeping everything straight, I always come back to "email". Each machine has it's "own" email address. "Directives" can be sent from a "master" email to these secret email addresses and form a todo list when appropriate. It should be possible to form up a private Google or Yahoo group to keep it all flowing nicely. Interesting concept? It works for me. When all you have is a hammer, then every problem is a nail. Pity what happens to a screw!

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Posted by reinkefj

Police cited the woman for hunting without a license … … in her house!

Thursday, May 18, 2006

http://www.lp.org/yourturn/archives/000306.shtml

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Defending Yourself Against Alligators
Here's an excerpt from a Washington Post story that will make you think twice about moving to Florida:

"Yesterday…an alligator walked through the doggy door of a woman's house in Bradenton and went for her golden retriever. The woman grabbed a shotgun and blazed away. The alligator escaped with a flesh wound. The neighbors heard shots and called police, who promptly cited the woman for hunting without a license."
How can the police cite the woman for hunting without a license? Who ever heard of hunting in your own house? Unbelievable.

Posted by Matthew Dailey at May 18, 2006 12:41 PM

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Absolutely unbelievable! 

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Posted by reinkefj

If gaming companies purchased I-15, it’s likely they wouldn’t even charge a toll!

Thursday, May 18, 2006

http://www.lewrockwell.com/french/french42.html

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If MGM Mirage can spend $7 billion on CityCenter and Boyd can spend $4 billion on Echelon, these two could finance the purchase and widening of I-15 in a heartbeat. The cost of that 316-mile stretch in Texas is $6 billion. LA to Vegas is 275 miles.

If a consortium of gaming companies purchased I-15, it’s likely they wouldn’t even charge a toll, especially for their customers, potential customers or vendors.

Does the idea sound crazy? Remember, the state of California is up to its neck in debt. If Gary Loveman, Terry Lanni and some other strip honchos would get together and dangle a few billion in front of Arnold, that never-gonna-happen idea for a bullet train can be mothballed once and for all, and a few more ribbons of blacktop will start materializing. And instead of burning up gas stranded in traffic, those Californians will be dropping money in slot machines like they want to be.
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I agree about that toll. But not about the train. They'd probably do both. They're interested in their money arriving safely. A train might be faster and safer and a more "novel" ride. They ran an airline until it became too much of a hassle. 

Trump, when he felt the disastrous Coleman skating rink refurb in NYC's Central Park was detracting from his premiere property, he got the job done in a tenth of the cost in a fraction of the time by a horde of contractors who want to be in his good graces and out of his notorious wrath. I believe he told a balky plumber that if a task was NOT done by the time he came down to turn the faucet that the plumber wouldn't work in NY again. It was done in record time!

I'd bet the job would be done ahead of time, under budget, with zero union trouble, and at a fraction of the "gummamint" cost.

To make people want to come, they'd probably serve drinks on the highway at the rest stops. :-)

All I know is it would be something to see. 

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ElephantDrive, yet another xdrive competitor, can you say “commodity pricing”

Thursday, May 18, 2006

http://www.elephantdrive.com/ 

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How much does it cost?

ElephantDrive is free during the beta period, but ultimately will be offered as a paid service. The current plan is to launch the paid service in June 2006, with standard accounts tentatively priced at $9.95/month for 10 GB of storage, decreasing for larger accounts. We are offering the service free during the beta period not in effort to trick users, but because your feedback is extremely valuable to us and will help us create the best possible product.

There will always be free accounts of limited size available, and we will never “hold your data hostage” if you decide not to continue with ElephantDrive after it moves to a paid service. In the event you decide that ElephantDrive is not for you because of pricing (or for any other reason for that matter), we will hold you data for at least 30 days while you move it to an alternative location and then remove it from our system for your privacy and protection.
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Another offer of free web space? Wow an embarrassment of riches. What data shall I put here? Obviously nothing too valuable or irreplaceable. I've actually started "pairing" free services. Put data store X on vendor A and B. Put data store Y on vendor C and D. Two of them won't go belly up at the same time. Will they? And it's just backup data.

Hmmmm? 

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Technology presents “a you won’t believe your eyes”.

Thursday, May 18, 2006

http://www.patmedia.net/marklevinson/cool/cool_illusion.html

from The LangaList Standard Edition 2006-05-18

A Free Email Newsletter from Fred Langa
That Helps You Get More From Your Hardware,
Software, and Time Online

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Hello, Fred! Just thought I'd send the link below to you for the Just for Grins section of the newsletter. It's an example of just how most of our brains work. We start out seeing one thing but, upon further inspection, we wind up seeing another. The page is suitable for all ages in all countries of the world. —Bob de Violini

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Sigh, now we can't depend upon what we see because of … evolution?

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Posted by reinkefj

Hey Gov C wanna save some gas?

Thursday, May 18, 2006

18 may 06 @ 727 am 295 s milepost 60 TD10471 wizzed by >75 mphs.

18 may 06 @ 731am 295 s milepost 55 SG20608 passed me at 65 but at least he used his signals and got out of the left lane.

Imagine mere peasants thinking that the glorious state workers of the People's Repoublic of New Jersey should be held to the same rules that they make for the serfs and peons! How rude. Let them each cake and drive on the portions of the road we are not using.

Remember the French Revolution? It just takes one spark to set off the blaze.

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What to do if all the “good” domain names are gone?

Thursday, May 18, 2006

An irate inet fellow was grousing about the "good" names are gone and "they" want 100k$s (new dimension of money  — hundreds of kilo dollars) for them. What is one to do?

Being an injineer, trained to solve other people's problems at the drop of a hat, I came up with a question and at least one alternative.

Question: What makes a domain name "good"? Short, memorable. Maybe?

I understand well the game that is being played on us.

https://reinkefj.wordpress.com/2006/05/17/yahoo-wants-to-get-you-interested-in-registering-a-domain-why-bother/

BUT having said that you need to be in the “game”.

I have two thoughts.

(1) Go offshore. I took Reinke dot cc because it was my last name and available. The "CC" in dot-cc refers to a tiny island chain in the Indian Ocean. It's the Cocos Islands, a 5.4-square-mile territory of Australia, population 650. Maybe I'll go visit someday? So QWERTY in Western Samoa is available. Just checked. You could be G @ QWERTY dot Web Site. Or there is .nz for New Zealand, .kz for Kazakstan. Mississippippians can go to .ms for Montserrati. Or Marylanders to .md for Moldova. There's lots of TLDs out there.

OR

(2) Go long. Buck the trend. Become G at QWERTY PLUMBING CONTRACTOR dot com which is also available.

I’m not so sure that the common wisdom is correct on short domain names. Yes, if you’re advertising on TV and you want someone to remember your phone number or website then you have to be as memorable as possible. In your case, I don’t think that applies.

Just my thoughts for what it is worth.

Remember you’re reading a fellow who uses <14 character random string> @ ISP dot net.

Will you every remember and type that? No. (Hell NO! but you could in a pinch, if you really really wanted to?)

But it’s very usable because you either reply or fire off a mailto weblink. 

So does dot com or short really matter? 

My answer is no.

Your Mileage May Vary. 

Now let me see if I can beat you to those names and sell ‘em to you for a big profit.  Was that QWERTY or YTREWQ? Dot CC or WS or TV or RADIO.

(You get the idea. Beat'em at their own game.) 

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Why is everyone now forcing password changes?

Thursday, May 18, 2006

Latest is verizon wireless. With a minimum of 8; max 20. No previous. Why are they "helping" me? Think I'm too stupid to manage my own life or did they lose them all?

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