SERVICE: STUFFBAK “not recommended”

Monday, January 17, 2011

http://www.stuffbak.com

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I signed up for this a while ago. And, for a variety of reasons, forgot about it. Found some of my left over labels. Hey, let’s see if the service is still up.

Yup! I was. Yay!

So, I “registered” one. And, found out it forgot me. (?)

“call 1-800-yeah-right”

I don’t do phone in “customer non-service”. My blood pressure can’t stand it. It has to be really really important for me to endure that particular hell.

From what I remember, it only had one level of service. And, there was zero charge for recovery. (I know I had one.) Now before you “tag” any thing, make sure you’re willing to pay 50$ for it’s return. Argh!

I don’t like folks that suck you in and then change the game after you’ve bought in. I had to buy the labels. If they had presented this value equation, then I’d have passed.

NOTRECOMMENDED!

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SOFTWARE: POSTBOX2 has a serious value-impacting problem — “SMEARING” in message preview pane

Sunday, January 16, 2011

“SMEARING” in message preview pane

POSTBOX2 Version 2.1.0 (PAID)

While the workaround — “click on the message” and read it in a new tab — works, it destroys the usability of it.

I’ve used Chrome, Safari, Opera, and Firefox. It’s no better.

It seems that the “rendering engine” of Postbox2 for HTML is slow, or broken.

I can’t believe that I am the only one who has this problem. If I am, why me? If not, why aren’t other screaming?

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SOFTWARE: OPERA in the doghouse

Sunday, January 16, 2011

OPERA

* LASTPASS broken with this browser. Reported to LASTPASS.

* Doesn’t quit; have to force quit.

* Would like to use the integrated mail app, but …

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SOFTWARE: ECTO in my dog house … again

Sunday, January 16, 2011

1. Describe the account you’re using.

Jasper Jottings Daily!!!
https://jxymxu7sn5ho9d.wordpress.com/xmlrpc.php
WORDPRESS hosted at wordpress

2. If the issue involves communication with your blog system

A post is being made. It was placed on the blog correctly from what I can tell.

3. Some odd hang-up?

Nothing appears to hang.

4. Crash?

Doesn’t crash

5.

I wrote and pushed a post with a forward time stamp. (The whole rationale for ECTO is it is easier than using the WordPress web page. Time setting is still not as easy as it could be, but that’s another matter.)

In looking at the post about an hour LATER, I see it is truncated. Argh!

Quick like a bunny, I go up and see the post is complete in WordPress. Againlike a bunny, I make a backup copy of my pearls of wisdom.

Then, I do “retrieve posts”. The target post comes back complete.

But when I open it, it is truncated.

(We have had this symptom before. Where posts or partial posts are produced but then don’t display correctly int he Client side software. A while ago. But it was never resolved. Haven’t seen it in a while. I think, always suspected, that there is crud in the underlying copy. Maybe an unprintable character or some such?)

Help.

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Argh! I hate having “problems”. The ECTO folks are good in support. Just not there on Sunday. Argh!

At least, the post is up for publishing correctly. And, I have a copy.

I think that I have to now reorganize how I do the blog posts.

More work for me. But, I have to keep a running backup of the post. Perhaps prep it in a WP, instead of using the ECTO Client.

Argh!

That’s a waste of the old technology budget.

The downside is that my pearls might be lost. But, then I have learned that pearls aren’t worth much on the resale market! Argh squared!

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INTERESTING: Economics that a child can understand

Sunday, January 16, 2011

http://www.economnomnomics.com/index.html

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Nom nom nom” is said to have originated with the Cookie Monster. *nom nom nom* It has become a preferred way to express voracious eating. Today the meme has spread to everyday conversation.

  Jen – “How’s that sandwhich?”   

  Mark – “Nom nom nom!”

  Jen – “I need to get some more noms.”

It is almost certain that the word economics was coined without *nom nom nom* in mind. But if it was not intentional, it was prophetic to put NOM right in the tummy of “economics,” as the concept of noming is so central to economics.

*** end quote ***

Even politicians and bureaucrats?

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FLASH: Three American Soldiers killed in Afghanistan

Saturday, January 15, 2011

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704323204576083633043852612.html?mod=WSJ_hp_MIDDLETopStories

Time to bring the boys and girls home!

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SOFTWARE: CHROME in the doghouse; end of the queue

Saturday, January 15, 2011

GOOGLECHROME, aka CHROME, goes into my doghouse and is relegated to the back of the queue.

The symptom is that all available space is consumed on the hard drive. Only a restart gets it back. It might be POSTBOX2 to blame. But maybe not.

APPLESAFARI, aka SAFARI, is next on the batting lineup.

Argh!

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QUOTE: “Most everything else is just excuses.”

Saturday, January 15, 2011

http://rushthecourt.net/2011/01/06/chris-otule-kevin-laue-remind-us-to-stop-complaining/

” …if you’re unhappy with something about it, you can work to change it. Most everything else is just excuses.”

— unknown writer on the RushTheCourt dot net website

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RANT: Al Gore still pitching

Friday, January 14, 2011

http://insights.execunet.com/index.php/comments/the_new_global_deal/best-practices/more

Published on: Wednesday, January 12, 2011
The New Global Deal
Posted By: Robyn Greenspan

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The farmer began to tell a long, involved story of the events of the car accident, culminating with the other vehicle hitting him and his cow. When the police arrived on the scene, they saw the injured cow and mercifully shot him. “So when the police asked the farmer how he felt, he said, ‘I feel fine.’ Many of us are feeling like that, said Gore.”

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Gore cited three major contributors to the climate crisis:
* the global population explosion, which taxes resources
* the dramatic expansion of the power-draining technologies we use
* the way we think about capitalism
*** and ***Gore urged World Business Forum delegates to affect change through political action, and pressure the Senate to release its use of filibusters to place a stranglehold on policies, which, he said, are influenced by special interest groups. “It’s important to change light bulbs, but it’s more important to change the laws.”

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Dear Ms Robyn,

May I respectfully suggest that that proverbial cow was lucky. It didn’t have to listen to Al Gore.

You, unfortunately, have parse out fact and fiction. “Global Warming”, “Global Cooling”, and all the fads in between are just attempts to “sell” us on a meme that allows them to control us and enriches them. It’s well documented just how much old Al has made from his “Global Warming” efforts. So how do you know where the conflict of interest ends. “Population Overgrowth” aka Malthusianism, “power draining tech” aka Peak Power, and “capitalism” which is not what we have now are all just justifications for the Mundanes to be led by the Elite. Of course, Gore is just one of the Elites to “lead” any that will follow.

The Elite always want to erode anything that stands in the way of following their agenda. Space doesn’t permit a comment to go into depth. And, I’m not sure I have the credentials to do it. But, I do know, what is being shoveled, that poor proverbial cow could produce as well.

:-)
fjohn

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JOBFINDING: Senior Jave Developer

Friday, January 14, 2011

Sargent Shultz says “I know nuthin, Nuting, Nothing at all”!

“Senior Jave Developer”

If it’s you, leave me a comment with a resume link.

If it passes my eye, I’ll share it with the fellow who asked.

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