No, it’s not me.

Microsoft ’sold’ me a copy of Ubuntu this week, so maybe they should see if they couldn’t work out a deal for a PPC link to them … they might make a couple extra dollars from people like me who have ‘just had it’ with Windows.

Hey … as long as we are leaving anyway, why not pick up a few cents by getting us to click on an adv. on the way out the door? That’s what I keep hoping my readers will do.

Click here to read on, my friend.

The second day was a dud.

I had no sooner gotten the first set of push ups in than all (fill in the blank) broke loose and it was 17-18 busy hours later before I could even think of doing a push up. At that point in the day I’d been pushing for almost 20 hours, so the answer was “No. Now go to sleep!” Click here to read on, my friend.

“Copywriting is about producing brief, effective and evocative text designed for a specific purpose.” http://www.jonathancrossfield.com/blog/2008/03/copy-write-versus-copyright-de.html

If you aren’t clear on the difference between copy writing and copyright, head on over to the link above and all will be explained.

I was innocently cruising through Get Rich Slowly when JD slipped me a mickey and forced me to take the “Hundred Push-up Challenge“.

Well … actually he didn’t force me, but I’ve been putting something like this off for far too long … decades (literally) too long. JD Roth had mentioned in passing that he had taken the challenge and I decided to take a look at the program myself.

Click here to read on, my friend.

Starting today, June 18, 2008, the quotes in the right hand column will include some of the gems from futurist thinker and inventor, R. Buckminster Fuller. I can clearly recall reading two of his works while I was still in high school.

“Utopia or Oblivion” and “Nine Chains to the Moon” separately, and together, influenced my thinking about our planet and the essential nature of humans as reflected in their larger institutions of religion, science, politics and commerce. It’s a picture of high hopes thwarted by debased ambitions.

This is the Dymaxion Map of the world, developed by Fuller as the first world projection to show the continents on a flat surface without visible distortion. Furthermore, this view shows the earth as being essentially one island in one ocean.

Look at that map. The Bering Strait, which separates the US and Russia, is less than 60 miles wide. That is ALL the gap that has to be bridged to bring ‘first world’ electricity to 90% of the population of the world.

All without building a single new generating facility.

Would China be clobbering our atmosphere with coal emissions if it could simply flip a switch? The Chinese might not think like westerners, but they DO think.

From that map we can see that we are all one world … not ‘first world’, ’second world’ and ‘third world’. Think about that when you next hear of the incredible levels of starvation being faced in Sudan. You actually could help.

What’s stopping you?

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Did you vote for this woman?

Governor Jennifer Granholm is, according to spokeswoman for ‘da guv’, going to veto a bill which would ban the barbaric practice of partial birth abortions. But wait, wait … there’s more … she’s doing it for humanitarian reasons!

That’s our gov’ … always caring, kind and motherly. Just warms your heart, doesn’t it? Gives me a great big warm fuzzy all over.

Click here to read on, my friend.

If you access this site from your cell phone, you should be served a ‘mobile device friendly’ version of it. If not, please give me a holler!

The QR-code image below will make entering this URL into any cell phone with a camera simpler, once you have installed the java script reader from http://reader.kaywa.com/

I have, apparently, an unsupported PDA, but most of the popular devices seem to be on the list. It’s worth checking.

“A QR Code is a matrix code (or two-dimensional bar code) created by
Japanese corporation Denso-Wave in 1994. The “QR” is derived from
“Quick Response”, as the creator intended the code to allow its
contents to be decoded at high speed. QR Codes are common in Japan
where they are currently the most popular type of two dimensional code.”

QR-codes Redirecting A Cell Phone To A Webpage “Japanese Barcode” | ToXigon

This is what I saw on the screen that caught my eye. It was as if the heavens had opened and a dispensation been granted.

Allowing posting simultaneously to multiple blogs

At first, I thought that our good friends at ScribeFire must have read my mind! I maintain multiple blogs and there are many times when a post would work equally well for two or more of them. At the moment I can post to multiple blogs only by posting to them sequentially. This is a waste of my time.

Oh, wait a second. That announcement is dated July 8, 2007 and is nearly a year old. If that feature made it into ScribeFire, I sure can’t find it. This looks like Microsofts’ tactic of ‘announce first, code later’.

Color me disappointed. Not just because ScribeFire ‘pulled a Microsoft’, but because I am accustomed to Open Source software leading the innovation dance. IMHO, Windows Live Writer is currently the better blog editor. WLW is not perfect … far from it … and it doesn’t have this feature, either. But it does have better support for graphics and it is at least as easy to use as ScribeFire.

This feature was offered for version 1.4.1. I am using 2.2.5. Where is it?

Windows Live Spaces – ScribeFire: Fire up your blogging

This is what I saw on the screen that caught my eye. It was as if the heavens had opened and a dispensation been granted.

Allowing posting simultaneously to multiple blogs

At first, I thought that our good friends at ScribeFire must have read my mind! I maintain multiple blogs and there are many times when a post would work equally well for two or more of them. At the moment I can post to multiple blogs only by posting to them sequentially. This is a waste of my time.

Oh, wait a second. That announcement is dated July 8, 2007 and is nearly a year old. If that feature made it into ScribeFire, I sure can’t find it. This looks like Microsofts’ tactic of ‘announce first, code later’.

Color me disappointed. Not just because ScribeFire ‘pulled a Microsoft’, but because I am accustomed to Open Source software leading the innovation dance. IMHO, Windows Live Writer is currently the better blog editor. WLW is not perfect … far from it … and it doesn’t have this feature, either. But it does have better support for graphics and it is at least as easy to use as ScribeFire.

This feature was offered for version 1.4.1. I am using 2.2.5. Where is it?

Windows Live Spaces – ScribeFire: Fire up your blogging

Technorati Tags: ScribeFire, Windows Live Writer, WLW, SF, Mozilla, Microsoft

I have a 200GB ATA drive that, IIRC, has a lot of good data (family photos, etc.) still sitting on it. I’ve been debating over whether to buy an external enclosure with power supply for it or just buy a cheap-o used computer, insert that HD and copy its useful contents elsewhere.

The problem with that idea is that my only other computer at the moment is a laptop with less than 10 GB free. And, I think the loose HD was formatted to a JFS format that Windows is useless with. “Useless” as in “Can’t even find.”

Suggestions?

In this case, the cheap / simple / fast answer is the preferred one.

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