Date: 2009-11-21 00:32 Subject: "All You Need Is Love" was written by The Sphinx from Mystery Men Security: Public Tags: movies, music

Excerpts from the lyrics to All You Need Is Love:

There's nothing you can do that can't be done.
Nothing you can sing that can't be sung.
...
There's nothing you can make that can't be made.
No one you can save that can't be saved.
...
Other quotes from The Sphinx:

We are number one. All others are number two, or lower.
...
To learn my teachings, I must first teach you how to learn.
...
He who questions training only trains himself at asking questions.
...
When you can balance a tack hammer on your head, you will head off your foes with a balanced attack.

Date: 2009-11-19 16:37 Subject: RBOC Security: Public Location: Home Office Tags: rboc, via ljapp, woot, wootoff

Well, I almost got a Random Bag of Crap.

Posted via LiveJournal.app.

Date: 2009-11-16 10:20 Subject: Azathoth? Security: Public Tags: cthulhu

They're calling it the Mandelbulb.

Looks like Azathoth to me.

( jpg under here )

Date: 2009-11-15 17:31 Subject: Pushing tables together Security: Public Tags: via ljapp

Dear waitstaff:

Pushing two square tables-for-4 together does not make a table for eight.

It makes a table for six.

Posted via LiveJournal.app.

Date: 2009-11-13 09:32 Subject: Who knows what evil is bound here.... Security: Public Tags: thereifixedit

Just don't MESS with it!

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Date: 2009-11-13 08:37 Subject: Possibly NOT the best choice of folder names. Security: Public Tags: internet

So I'm trying to access a website to take a Health Questionnaire to make my part of my health insurance cheaper.
It's arranged through my employer.

Today's the deadline. (yes, I'm a procrastinator. What's your point?)

Of course it's down.

But the URL for the error message concerns me.

"https://www.yourbenefitsconnection.com/globalwar/pub/azerror.jsp"

Date: 2009-11-09 09:17 Subject: Photographs Security: Public Tags: photography, waymarking

I seem to have lost 17 16 jpg files from April.

That's so incredibly irritating!

Only one more place to check and I don't have much hope...

Date: 2009-11-04 08:06 Subject: Windows 7 Hotspot feature Security: Public Tags: software, windows

from /.:

An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from Engadget: "It wasn't all that long ago that Microsoft was talking up the Virtual WiFi feature developed by Microsoft Research and set for inclusion in Windows 7, but something got lost along the road to release day, and the functionality never officially made it into the OS. As you might expect with anything as big and complicated as an operating system though, some of that code did make it into the final release, and there was apparently enough of it for the folks at Nomadio to exploit into a full fledged feature. That's now become Connectify, a free application from the company that effectively turns any Windows 7 computer into a virtual WiFi hotspot — letting you, for instance, wirelessly tether a number of devices to your laptop at location where only an Ethernet jack is available, or even tether a number of laptops together at a coffee shop that charges for WiFi."

I haven't got Windows 7 yet.

Date: 2009-11-03 08:25 Subject: Go vote! Security: Public Tags: election

Is there an election in your area? There is in mine.

GO VOTE!

Date: 2009-10-23 12:31 Subject: 2012 Security: Public Mood: grumpy Tags: 2012

"No one who's writing in now seems to remember that the last time we thought the world was going to end, it didn't," says Martin, the astronomy webmaster. "There doesn't seem to be a lot of memory that things were fine the last time around."

Full article on cbs5.com via itworld.com

Date: 2009-10-14 20:08 Subject: Chicken or egg? Security: Public Tags: via ljapp

So. These writers that write the horrible crimes in books, movies, and on TV--should I be glad they have an outlet for these thoughts? Or should I be worried that they're inspired by true events that I hadn't heard about?

The obvious answer is, "both".

Posted via LiveJournal.app.

Date: 2009-10-07 16:33 Subject: Giz Explains: When (Not) To Use Your Camera's Flash [Giz Explains] Security: Public Tags: photography

What is photography's greatest scourge? Cellphone cameras? MySpace self-portraiture? Neither even comes close to the insidious, creeping threat that is your camera's built-in flash. Here's when and how you should—and more importantly, shouldn't—use a flash.

Full post on gizmodo.

I'm glad someone's written something about this. I see people do this all the time! They take a photo of something that's across a large space with their pocket camera and  the flash goes off. They peer at the camera, and repeat.

I just want to yell--TURN OFF THE FLASH!

Date: 2009-09-29 07:41 Subject: Second time in two weeks Security: Public Tags: spelling, tv

For the second time in two weeks, I've sent email to a local TV channel over an issue in the Newscast.

The last time it was about referring to Arlington, TX as Dallas. On a local news show.

THIS time it was a typo in the caption under a story.

The story was about a grave that was apparently moved without notice.

The caption referred to a "cemetary". I see that typo all over geocaching.com and waymarking.com. I've seen that typo on a sign at an actual cemetery--and it wasn't the main sign. The main sign was correct. I fix it where I can, and let people know where possible.

Anyway.

cemetary
cemetery

Date: 2009-09-15 12:48 Subject: so geocaching.com has a twitter account Security: Public Tags: geocaching, twitter, waymarking, whereigo

http://twitter.com/gogeocaching

Why do they not have http://twitter.com/gowaymarking and why do they not have http://twitter.com/gowhereigo ?

Date: 2009-09-15 12:46 Subject: Twitter is over capacity. Security: Public Tags: twitter

Twitter is over capacity.

Too many tweets! Please wait a moment and try again.

Because I'm trying to login so I can enter a contest.

Date: 2009-09-08 10:46 Subject: They know where your cellphone was and when. Security: Public Tags: cellphone, privacy

Mobile devices in America are generating something like 600 billion geo-spatially tagged transactions per day. Every call, text message, email and data transfer handled by your mobile device creates a transaction with your space-time coordinate (to roughly 60 meters accuracy if there are three cell towers in range), whether you have GPS or not.Got a Blackberry? Every few minutes, it sends a heartbeat, creating a transaction whether you are using the phone or not. If the device is GPS-enabled and you’re using a location-based service your location is accurate to somewhere between 10 and 30 meters. Using Wi-Fi? It is accurate below 10 meters.

From Jeff Jonas's blog

Date: 2009-09-04 23:10 Subject: Here. Read this. Security: Public

Post from tsiobo

She's right.

And let's add to that this: Where's the innovation? We keep touting the fact that we were first to put a man on the moon. But WHAT DID WE DO SINCE THEN? Mostly we seem to be the world experts in lawsuits. We also seem to be good at making entertainment, but we make it in neighboring countries and bring it back and show it.

Date: 2009-09-03 08:21 Subject: Automotive thermostats Security: Public Tags: car

So it appears that frostdancer's thermostat is out or very sick.

I guess I'll work from home tomorrow (too) and let her take my car and we'll take hers in to get it fixed Saturday.

I've done my share of thermostat replacements and I don't want to do another any time soon.

Date: 2009-08-28 16:21 Subject: CNet: Bill would give president emergency control of Internet Security: Public Tags: government, internet

Internet companies and civil liberties groups were alarmed this spring when a U.S. Senate bill proposed handing the White House the power to disconnect private-sector computers from the Internet.

But there's apparently a revised one now, which still appears to permit the president to seize temporary control of private-sector networks during a so-called cybersecurity emergency.

Full story on CNet.

When Rockefeller, the chairman of the Senate Commerce committee, and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) introduced the original bill in April, they claimed it was vital to protect national cybersecurity. "We must protect our critical infrastructure at all costs--from our water to our electricity, to banking, traffic lights and electronic health records," Rockefeller said.

"At all costs" is a phrase should make everyone look again at what's being proposed.

I have no problems with the idea of a Big Red Switch that would cut the Government off from the rest of the Internet.

But I really don't think the government should be blocking ME from the Internet. Or YOU either.