Thursday, February 26, 2009
Updates to attachments: multi-select and progress bars
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Today, we're making some changes to the way Gmail attachments work. If you want to send a few files from the same folder, simply hold down the Ctrl key (Cmd on OS X) and click on each file you want to attach to your message. You can also hold down the Shift key to select a continuous list of files. A definite time saver.
You'll not only save a few mouse clicks selecting files, but you'll also see progress bars on each file as it uploads.
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Saturday, February 21, 2009
iPods help special-education students excel - MetroWest Daily News
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iPods help special-education students excel MetroWest Daily News, MA At first, Smith's iPod lessons consisted of books on tape. But they have expanded, with the use of the iPod Touch, to everything from vocabulary to math facts to telling time to problem solving, writing and reading comprehension. ... |
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Friday, February 20, 2009
Time marches on
No matter how young you feel,
This one still hurts...
Eddie Haskell, the Beaver & Wally
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"Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.
Dr. Joyce Brothers
US psychologist & television personality (1928 - )"
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Autism and vaccines | Salon
Granted, it is very difficult for me to be objective about this.
Autism and vaccines | Salon: "That said, we've never been a society with a worldview that holds science in high esteem. Consider the results of a recent Gallup Poll about evolution: On Charles Darwin's 200th birthday, only four in 10 Americans say they believe in the theory of evolution. As a result, from the Scopes Monkey Trial to Kitzmiller et al. v. Dover Area School District, we’ve sent conflicts between faith and science to the courts to arbitrate.
In the case of autism and vaccines, we've made the same decision. The debate has aroused intense feelings: On one side are physicians and medical groups, convinced that vaccines are safe and effective, perhaps the most lifesaving breakthrough in medical history. On the other side are parents, like Estepp, who struggle every day to raise a child with autism. Painfully watching their children become autistic after receiving vaccines is their lasting proof. It's the answer when doctors and medicine can't answer why. For them, the emotion of the issue can't be quieted by science's hypotheses."
ccleaner aka Crap Cleaner
My dad reminded me of another piece of free software that I use a lot. I think they changed the name to ccleaner but you get the idea.... This gets rid of all the temporary stuff on a computer that has been permanent. His remarks follow:
A tool I have used for quite some time is "ccleaner" which is available for
download from www.ccleaner.com
It "unclutters", is a good tool for checking startup programs, and I have
not found any unwanted side effects. It also works on registry
Can't Copy to Half-Full Thumb Drive—Why?
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Revo Uninstaller Freeware - Uninstall Software, Remove Programs, Solve uninstall problems
I download a copy of Revo Uninstaller and got rid of a bunch of programs that no one was using anymore like a version of Office that had hooks for a defunct product to create webpages. Apparently at bootup, the Office software was looking to connect to the defunct product and kept hanging up windows.
I saw that there were all kind of toolbars for IE, some of which were probably no long supported. That explained why it took so long to get IE going. I used Revo to uninstall the toolbars. One of the nice things about Revo is that you can have it clean out the registry also.
After getting rid of some of the programs, I went to the tools tab and checked to see what was being launched at startup. A lot of the stuff looks like Greek to me, and I am in the computer business. If you right click on the entry, one of the options is to do a Google lookup and find out what it is. One of the first startup items on that notebook was some kind of a trojan. I was able to both delete from the startup list and get rid of it using Revo.
The long and short is that now it boots very quickly and IE fires up instantly.
"Revo Uninstaller helps you to uninstall software and remove unwanted programs installed on your computer even if you have problems uninstalling and cannot uninstall them from 'Windows Add or Remove Programs' control panel applet."
The Easy Way to Unclutter a New PC - Security Fix
Just click here.
"Then, just this past week, I spotted the tool I'd been hoping some smart geek would create -- a free trial-ware banishing program called, appropriately enough, the 'PC Decrapifier.'
The list of crapware that this tool obliterates is fairly exhaustive: It nixes some 45 programs most commonly installed as trial-ware on new PCs, including, Sonic Record Now, AOL, several different types of Norton and McAfee and Trend Micro trial anti-virus products, Wild Tangent games, HP Rhapsody and MusicMatch, among others."
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US dramatist & historical novelist (1915 - )
Bad marriage jokes
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
David Bissonette
After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin; they just can't face each other, but still they stay together.
Sacha Guitry
By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
Socrates
Woman inspires us to great things, and prevents us from achieving them.
Anonymous
The great question... which I have not been able to answer... is, 'What does a woman want?
Dumas
I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me.
Sigmund Freud
'Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.'
Anonymous
'There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.'
Sam Kinison
'I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me, and the second one didn't.'
James Holt McGavra
Two secrets to keep your marriage brimming
1. Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
2. Whenever you're right, shut up.
Patrick Murra
The most effective way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once....
Nash
You know what I did before I married? Anything I wanted to.
Anonymous
My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
Henny Youngman
A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.
Rodney Dangerfield
A man inserted an 'ad' in the classifieds: 'Wife wanted'. Next day he received a hundred letters. They all said the same thing: 'You can have mine.'
Anonymous
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
What's the greenest way to dispose of my dead body? - By Nina Shen Rastogi - Slate Magazine
"If you can manage to stick around for a while, two new technologies have eco-geeks (not to mention sci-fi fans) excited. The process of alkaline hydrolysis involves liquefying your body in a solution of lye and water, resulting in a pile of bone ash and a bottle of biofluid that you can pour on your houseplants. One of its leading proponents, a Scotland-based company called Resomation Ltd., claims that the procedure has a carbon footprint 18 times smaller than a typical cremator. In the other procedure, called promession, a corpse gets freeze-dried with liquid nitrogen and then shattered into powder, Terminator-style. Neither of these options is commercially available yet, but both the Mayo Clinic and the University of Florida use alkaline hydrolysis to dispose of their teaching cadavers. So, you experimental types—why not turn yourself into the ultimate recycling project and donate your body to science?"
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Marquis de la Grange
(1639 - 1692)"
Sunday, February 15, 2009
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Thursday, February 12, 2009
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Court: Vaccines didn't cause autism
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The ruling came from a panel of "special masters" who began hearing three test cases in 2007 involving children with autism -- a disorder that their parents contend was triggered by the vaccine against measles, mumps and rubella combined with vaccines containing thimerosal, a preservative containing mercury.
Three families -- the Cedillos, the Hazlehursts and the Snyders -- sought compensation from the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, but the panel ruled that they had not presented sufficient evidence to prove that the childhood vaccines caused autism in their children.
"I feel deep sympathy and admiration for the Cedillo family," Special Master George L. Hastings Jr. wrote in his ruling in the case involving 14-year-old Michelle Cedillo, who cannot speak, wears a diaper and requires round-the-clock monitoring in case she has a seizure.
"And I have no doubt that the families of countless other autistic children, families that cope every day with the tremendous challenges of caring for autistic children, are similarly deserving of sympathy and admiration. However, I must decide this case not on sentiment, but by analyzing the evidence," Hastings wrote. "In this case the evidence advanced by the petitioners has fallen far short of demonstrating such a link."
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009
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US comedian and actress"
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US author, cartoonist, humorist, & satirist (1894 - 1961)"
Monday, February 09, 2009
TGI Monday - Quotes
- An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
"Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an
opportunity somebody wishes they had missed." -- Lily Tomlin
Sunday, February 08, 2009
Fool or Fanatic?
- The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
Friday, February 06, 2009
Quote of the day - unpleasant subject
when he died. The man tried to ignore the question, but, on being
pressed, replied: 'Oh well, I suppose I shall inherit eternal bliss, but
I wish you wouldn't talk about such unpleasant subjects." -- F. W. H. Myers
Having as much fun as you can in physical therapy
Which makes me wonder, with the internet and Google, does anyone use the yellow pages anymore?
Thursday, February 05, 2009
Beehive: The Farewell Performances
My friend Andrew surprised me last Friday evening by taking me to one of the farewell performances of Beehive. It was as much fun as it was the first time I saw it.
Click the link above to see a short clip from the musical at Zachary Scott Theater. For the uninitiated:
BEEHIVE, the original big hair 60’s Girl Group musical is back for its special Farwell Performances at ZACH! Created by Larry Gallagher, Beehive is the rafter-raising tribute to the Girl Groups and individual artists who skyrocketed to fame between the years 1960-69. Directed by ZACH Artistic Director Dave Steakley, BEEHIVE is the winner of six Austin Critics’ Table Awards, including “BEST MUSICAL REVUE!”
BEEHIVE delivers a solid gold song book of hits made famous by The Crystals (“One Fine Day”), The Angels (“My Boyfriend’s Back”), Martha Reeves and the Vandellas (“Heat Wave”), Connie Francis (“Where The Boys Are”), Tina Turner (“Proud Mary”), Aretha Franklin (“Natural Woman”), Diana Ross and the Supremes (“Stop! In The Name of Love”), Janis Joplin (“Try, Just a Little Bit Harder”), just to name a few. Performing over forty-four chart toppers, ZACH’s performers are six women who earn your R.E.S.P.E.C.T.!
I saw it when it first came out at the Paramount Theater here in Austin. It was a lot of fun to see four of the original performers in these roles again. Just like the first time I saw them, I was electrified by some of the performances. So much talent. Through the years I have seen the main four performers in various productions and have gained a greater appreciation for their talents. Last year, Judy Arnold even came to sing at our church.
I saw an interview with one of the performers Rebecca Schoolar in the Austin American Statesman where she talked about getting older and saying goodbye to Beehive.
I relate
Forgetter Be Forgotten
This is really cute
My forgetter's getting better,
But my rememberer is broke
To you that may seem funny
But, to me, that is no joke
For when I'm 'here' I'm wondering
If I really should be 'there'
And, when I try to think it through,
I haven't got a prayer!
Oft times I walk into a room,
Say 'what am I here for?'
I wrack my brain, but all in vain!
A zero, is my score.
At times I put something away
Where it is safe, but, Gee!
The person it is safest from
Is, generally, me!
When shopping I may see someone,
Say 'Hi' and have a chat,
Then, when the person walks away
I ask myself, 'who the heck was that?'
Yes, my forgetter's getting better
While my rememberer is broke,
And it's driving me plumb crazy
And that isn't any joke.
CAN YOU RELATE???
Please send this to everyone you know
because
I DON'T REMEMBER
WHO I SENT THIS TO!
Wednesday, February 04, 2009
Wednesday quotes - Kathy Najimy & John Maynard Keynes
quick." -- Kathy Najimy
"Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men
will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone."
-- John Maynard Keynes
Tuesday, February 03, 2009
Wait Wait Don't Tell Me - With Carrie Fisher
IBM Offers to Move Laid-off Workers to India
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See, I'm a little confused. Because for years, big companies like IBM have insisted there were so few talented IT workers in the U.S., they had to import them from India. And yet now we have so many, we can send them to India! Isn't that funny?
If I were a suspicious sort (and God knows, I'm not), I'd wonder if this isn't really a way to keep experienced American workers while artificially suppressing their wages. And of course, I'd also have to wonder: If you're offered one of these jobs and you decline, are you then ineligible to collect unemployment compensation? Because that already happens with big companies in the U.S.
Isn't this new personal responsibility thing fun? Who knew we'd get to see the world at company expense?
The climate is warm, there's no shortage of exotic food, and the cost of living is rock bottom. That's IBM (NYSE: IBM)'s pitch to the laid-off American workers it's offering to place in India. The catch: Wages in the country are pennies-on-the-dollar compared to U.S. salaries.
Under a program called Project Match, IBM will help workers laid off from domestic sites obtain travel and visa assistance for countries in which Big Blue has openings. Mostly that's developing markets like India, China, and Brazil.
"IBM has established Project Match to help you locate potential job opportunities in growth markets where your skills are in demand," IBM says in an internal notice on the initiative. "Should you accept a position in one of these countries, IBM offers financial assistance to offset moving costs, provides immigration support, such as visa assistance, and other support to help ease the transition of an international move."
The document states that the program is limited to "satisfactory performers who have been notified of separation from IBM U.S. or Canada and are willing to work on local terms and conditions." The latter indicates that workers will be paid according to prevailing norms in the countries to which they relocate. In many cases, that could be substantially less than what they earned in North America.
IBM has laid off more than 4,000 workers in the United States since the beginning of January, according to an employee group. The company has confirmed layoffs but won't comment on specific numbers.
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Take Me Back to the Fifties
Today's quotes
- I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
- I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Is it worth it to wash out your recyclables?
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Is it worth it to wash out your recyclables?
I've always been dedicated to washing the peanut butter, Pepsi, and mayo out of my food containers before tossing them in the recycling bin. My sister, though, recently pointed out that I'm probably wasting gallons upon gallons of precious H20! Is it worth it to soap up my tin cans and soda bottles?[more ...]
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Monday, February 02, 2009
Thanks for shopping at Walmart?
Beauty of Mathematics !!!!!!!
12 x 8 + 2 = 98
123 x 8 + 3 = 987
1234 x 8 + 4 = 9876
12345 x 8 + 5 = 98765
123456 x 8 + 6 = 987654
1234567 x 8 + 7 = 9876543
12345678 x 8 + 8 = 98765432
123456789 x 8 + 9 = 987654321
1 x 9 + 2 = 11
12 x 9 + 3 = 111
123 x 9 + 4 = 1111
1234 x 9 + 5 = 11111
12345 x 9 + 6 = 111111
123456 x 9 + 7 = 1111111
1234567 x 9 + 8 = 11111111
12345678 x 9 + 9 = 111111111
123456789 x 9 +10= 1111111111
9 x 9 + 7 = 88
98 x 9 + 6 = 888
987 x 9 + 5 = 8888
9876 x 9 + 4 = 88888
98765 x 9 + 3 = 888888
987654 x 9 + 2 = 8888888
9876543 x 9 + 1 = 88888888
98765432 x 9 + 0 = 888888888
Brilliant, isn't it?
And look at this symmetry:
1 x 1 = 1
11 x 11 = 121
111 x 111 = 12321
1111 x 1111 = 1234321
11111 x 11111 = 123454321
111111 x 111111 = 12345654321
1111111 x 1111111 = 1234567654321
11111111 x 11111111 = 123456787654321
111111111 x 111111111 = 12345678987654321
Amazing?