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reading that TB2 outsources their stuff, I looked into it. It’s not as simple as that. It never is.
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HAPPY LABOR DAY!….Courtesy of the Detroit Free Press, here’s a handy map showing how far median incomes have dropped over the past six years. And it’s good news for most of you: Compared to Michigan and North Carolina you’re not doing so badly after all
Category: analog->digital conversion
calling them as I see them
Anthony Mantova Embarrasses President Bush:
Paul Beard of Seattle got the top spot in the Eureka Reporter’s Letters to the Editor today:
Dear Editor,
Patrick Bell complains that a recent column, written by a former paratrooper, was “unhinged” in its criticism of a young war supporter who refuses to serve in a war he supports. Bell suggests Mr. Ash “should put his life on the line to support his view — and volunteer to be a human shield in Iraq, Iran or North Korea.” What Bell fails to realize is that Mr. Ash has been a human shield — for all of us here at home. He has been in harm’s way and understandably hopes that others who value a strong America would follow his example.
It’s easy to cheer for a war that someone else will fight: for someone who works for something called the Leadership Institute to refuse to lead by example tells me what kind of leader or soldier they would make. Perhaps that’s why Anthony Mantova and his fellow cheerleaders are steering clear of the recruiter’s office; they realize they don’t have what it takes. But I think they should give it a try, basic training might be the making of them.
I don’t support this poorly-planned and miserably-managed war, but unlike those who do, I’m not going to attack former or active duty troops. That seems to be one of the key differences: love the war, disparage and short-change the troops vs oppose the war but support improved armor/equipment and medical services for them.
wildlife status
As best I can tell, raccoons don’t like crystallized coyote weewee any more than tiggers like haycorns. I haven’t seen any repeat visits from the little attractive nuisances.
It looks like they may have overwintered in a disused playhouse on my neighbor’s property, but overhanging mine: it’s a two-story structure and the upper floor is carpeted with raccoon deposits. Yuck.
It doesn’t seem terribly effective on squirrels but they weren’t my primary target. I can now turn my attention to them and see if I can find something that will work on them.
Now playing: Galang (Radio Edit) by M.I.A. from the album “Galang – Single” | Get it
post-op
Had a tooth extracted this morning. I had walked in with a glimmer, a flicker, of hope that upon further review, the tooth would be seen as salvageable.
Not so. It was out in 30 minutes and when I saw what was left of it, I realized I was lucky to get off a lightly as I did. It was the next to last molar on the top right: the roots spread fore and aft to anchor it, generally making extractions problematic — like pulling a toggle bolt through a brick wall. But since the visible tooth was cracked all the way to to the gumline, it broke into two chunks under some persuasion and came out in stages.
Yuck. Now to sit around with gauze in my trap and wait for things to calm down.
There are lots of things I’d rather do right now.
WPBlacklist problems
I have installed WPBlacklist but it isn’t working! What’s wrong? This might be due to any of the following reasons:
1. Have you activated the WPBlacklist plugin from the Plugins panel on the WP Administration screen? If not, you need to activate the WPBlacklist plugin.
2. Do you get PHP errors when you try to post a test comment but your comment appears anyway? In this case, you might have certain entries in your blacklist which are not regular expression safe. Usually, this happens when you have an entry in your blacklist with a “/” not preceded by a “”. So, all you need to do is search your blacklist for such entries and either edit them so that each “/” is preceded by a “” or delete the entry altogether. This happens particularly in the case of URLs where you have “http://” – which should read as “http://” to be regular expression safe.
Yesterday and earlier today, I was having some problems with comments: the comment would be posted but the person leaving the comment would get an error screen: it seems that somehow the blacklist had fallen victim to the item (2) above. I ended up dumping my whole blacklist (emptying the table) and repopulating it. Kind of annoying since the most likely way for stuff to be added is via the plugin or the publicly available blacklists.
the halo effect
Latest Business News and Financial Information | Reuters.com:
Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster raised his 12-month price target to $100 from $52, citing a survey conducted by his firm showing that Apple’s popular iPod digital music players are helping boost sales of its signature Macintosh computers.
Another analyst, Robert Cihra, of Fulcrum Global Partners, also boosted his price target, although less dramatically, in a separate research note to clients. He set a new target of $65, up from $53.
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In a note to clients, Munster wrote that a Piper Jaffray survey of 200 iPod users in the United States found that 6 percent were formerly PC users who had bought a Macintosh computer after their purchase of an iPod.Another 7 percent of those surveyed said they planned to buy a Macintosh, according to the survey.
Customer satisfaction with the digital music player also was very high, Munster said.
“We believe that the remarkable satisfaction with the iPod creates a word-of-mouth wildfire that generates new customer interest in Apple products,” he wrote.
Munster has an “outperform” rating on the stock.
People like what works.
Now playing:Going For The One by Yes from the album “Highlights – The Very Best Of Yes”
what man-made event killed 25,000 Europeans in 2003?
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Melting ice: the threat to London’s future: “He said the heatwave of last summer in which 25,000 Europeans died had killed more people than terrorism, yet had not been given anything like the same level of attention.”
25,000 people on one continent as a result of a man-made activity.
What was it?
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the unresponsive nature of monopolies
[IP] It seems that even “secure” financial transactions with InternetExp: [A exploit that uses IE ]watches for HTTPS (secure) access to URLs of several dozen banking and financial sites in multiple countries. When an outbound HTTPS connection is made to such a URL, the BHO then grabs any outbound POST/GET data from within IE before it is encrypted by SSL. When it captures data, it creates an outbound HTTP connection to http://www.refestltd.com/cgi-bin/yes.pl and feeds the captured data to the script found at that location.” There are only two choices left with IE: Either don’t browse the web with it, or don’t use it for financial transactions.”
[IP] It seems that even "secure" financial transactions with InternetExp:
[An exploit that uses IE] watches for HTTPS (secure) access to URLs of several dozen banking and financial sites in multiple countries. When an outbound HTTPS connection is made to such a URL, the BHO then grabs any outbound POST/GET data from within IE before it is encrypted by SSL. When it captures data, it creates an outbound HTTP connection to http://www.refestltd.com/cgi-bin/yes.pl and feeds the captured data to the script found at that location.
There are only two choices left with IE: Either don’t browse the web with it, or don’t use it for financial transactions.
The post goes on to list the URLs for Opera, Mozilla, and Firefox as options for Windows users.
This is really bad. All the effort spent building trust in secure transactions and the security of an online marketplace is at risk. And of course the well-crafted Windows EULA disclaims any responsibility for any harm or loss stemming from the use of their products. I wonder how this affects websites who may lose trade as a result of people opting out of shopping online?
CNet wants you back
“Companies start to get the instant message. Just because everyone’s using it won’t mean anyone’s making much money on it.” [CNET News.com]
Recently, Robert Scoble noticed that CNET had stopped including summaries in its RSS feed, so he unsubscribed. That’s one of the great things about RSS – if a feed doesn’t interest you anymore, for whatever reason, you just unsubscribe.
I was preparing to unsubscribe from their feed myself, noticing that I hadn’t clicked out to any of their articles since the summaries had disappeared. Then, all of a sudden, the summaries magically reappeared. I guess CNET listened to its users and brought them back. That’s another great thing about RSS – CNET was able to restore the summaries through no effort on the part of its readers.
So now I find myself reading the summaries and clicking out to their site again, which is, of course, the whole point of RSS. 😉
[The Shifted Librarian]
Hmm, I hadn’t noticed service was restored until Jenny mentioned it. Good for them (and us).
Let the bidding commence
It seems unambitious just to shout “Will do technology for food” at the world; so I thought I’d pick a few candidate employers and explain why they should hire me. There are lots of other interesting organizations that I’d love to work for; the idea here is to provide some examples.
My guess would be MSFT has already called . . . . though they didn’t make the short list of prospects.
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