Entries from June 2009The Posts You Asked For

“Judge: Holocaust museum shooting suspect not fit for court,” reads the CNN headline. The article begins, “The alleged shooter in this month’s deadly attack at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington is not yet…”
But James von Brunn is not “alleged” or “suspected.” He’s the shooter. There’s no doubt. Not a bit. There are questions about [...]

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I have to wonder how much damage the adoption of Firefox and some of its addons is doing to the Internet. I’m thinking specifically of one of my favorites, Ad Block Plus. Simply put, it prevents just about every ad from appearing on any page I visit.
As Firefox’s market penetration increases (it’s at about 23% [...]

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“Cell phone makers have agreed to introduce a one-size-fits-all charger in the European Union within the next six months.”

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Still slowly but surely linking my various social networks. Blog to Twitter? Check. Twitter to blog? Check.
Facebook to blog? Um… no. Blog to Facebook? Only to a section of FB that no one sees. Work still needs to be done there.
New blogging tool? Check — trying out Deepest Sender for quick updates.
All while editing, [...]

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“Not a day goes by when I don’t ache,” says Ruth Madoff.
Funny, I bet that’s the same thing her husband’s going to be saying, although for entirely different reasons. [ba-dum-BUM]

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Didn’t take long.

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[sigh]

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You probably have heard that Iranians have found ways to bypass the censorship imposed by the government in the wake of the elections and protests. But I know at least some people only have a vague idea about it.
So… if you’re interested in seeing the messages people in Tehran are getting out, it’s easy: Here’s [...]

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I love Craigslist… most of the time. You can find some great stuff — jobs, toys, gizmos, homes. Still, sometimes job searches turn up, shall we say, some sub-optimal offers. Take, for example, this one my wife found:
Modle wantedReply to: job-tqewr-1233977690@craigslist.orgDate: 2009-06-22, 1:29PM
I am looking for a white wome 28-33 yrs old that would [...]

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What country is the world’s largest manufacturer by a huge margin? If you have a kid, you would think it must be China — I don’t know the last time I saw I toy (or anything else, really) that wasn’t made there.
Wrong.
Accounting for more than 20% of the world’s total manufacturing output is the United [...]

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Here’s the problem I had to solve with Excel. (I’m sharing this in case anyone Googles a similar problem.)
I am entering a long list of data in three columns– to keep it simple, let’s call them “Client,” “Salesperson,” and a 10-digit “Salesperson ID.”
Every time I enter a salesperson’s name, I then have to also enter [...]

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I am shocked that someone, somewhere, has not created a Word or Excel macro that searches and replaces based on a list of common nicknames — changing all “Mikes” to “Michael” and so on. It would seem to be a darned useful tool.
Having just spent about 45 minutes crafting a neat little Excel formula, I [...]

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(At my office I get 512Kbps to maybe 1Mbps.)

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I assume George Bush, on hearing about what’s going on in Iran, immediately headed for a vacation in Crawford… until someone reminded him that he’s not President anymore.

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Anyone and his mother can discover a new species or a new asteroid. But not many people can claim to have discovered a new kind of cloud.
Meteorologists are debating whether to seek formal recognition for the first new cloud variety since 1951, prompted in part by strange clouds photographed in 2006 by Jane Wiggins, a [...]

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So my wife decided it was time to get rid of the seven-year-old wedding dress (it’s not like she’s going to be using it again), and thus posted an ad on Freecycle offering it to anyone who would actually use it. (A lot of Freecycle folks, we learned, will ask for just about anything that’s [...]

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At least not yet. Gosh, we need an easy way to share all this stuff. RSS is great, but Facebook’s support is crappy.
Update: Now it is! One small step…

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I realize that the best way to work with social networks is not to treat each as a separate thing — that is, posting something to a blog, then something else to Facebook, with a few Twitters in between. You’ll go crazy; every time a new site gets hot, you’ll feel the need to create [...]

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