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In the pre holiday shopping frenzy created by media/retail outlets, I thought this post a good reminder of the things to beware of and as @Swoopy says "Let us remind one and all that the impending holiday season is about "Good for Goodness Sake" because there is no greater reward." Be safe and pay it forward. Happy Thanksgiving for those of us in the United States!
I call RSS “power internet”. When web sites are updated there is a machine readable way to be notified via RSS. Check out this video, its a “silent movie” but demonstrates the procedure. I prefer getting news this way, it saves a bunch of time and bandwidth!
Let me know if you have any comments.
MissM
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I think this looks fantastic! And seems to make getting the latest applications VERY helpful. I haven't tried it yet, but when I go to 64 bit win7, I'll need it. I installed win7 32 bit first, just to minimize the potential conflicts, but decided that 64 bit is the way to go.
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Wow. Just wow. A medical student fell while jogging beside the lake, while breaking her fall, she broke both arms. When the bill from the ER came and she became aware of an insurance error, that's when the "fun," aka 2 years and still not fixed, begins. Read the story. "SEVERAL WEEKS LATER — AND BLISSFULLY CAST-FREE — I found an EOB (explanation of benefits) statement from the insurance company in my mailbox in the foyer of my apartment building. Its contents left me half-shrieking and half-wailing in outrage. As I shook the envelope with its rustling plastic window in one hand, holding the horror of the EOB in the other, all thoughts of anyone being nearby vanished. I ignored the sidelong stares and raised eyebrows of my neighbors to focus on the neatly itemized bill for my fractures: nearly $6,000. My estimated share? Almost all of it."
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This is a post I've been meaning to write, and boom boom pow! it shows up in my google reader. During these troubled times [drink] companies can keep customers by giving good service and recognizing that times *are* tough. I plan on supporting stores that DO value my business, by showing me. "My cousin Dan from Minnesota, who retired from the U.S. Postal Service this year at age 53, offers his thoughts on today’s astonishing lack of good customer service:"
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' Tillman's personal journals and letters to his wife, Marie, seen publicly for the first time, offer a glimpse into the life of the man that very few people knew.
"My life at this point is relatively easy," Pat Tillman wrote in a letter to his family dated April 8, 2002. "It is my belief that I could continue to play football for the next seven or eight years and create a very comfortable lifestyle. My job is challenging, enjoyable and strokes my vanity enough to fool me into thinking it's important. For more reasons that I care to list, my job is remarkable. However, it is not enough." '
I've been familiar with Pat Tillman's real feelings about the Iraq war for a long time. I'm glad that this book was written and I can't wait to read it.
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A copy of a real Dept. of Homeland Security report of what they have. Darn scary
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A copy of a real Dept. of Homeland Security report of what they have. Darn scary
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"The Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) for Border Searches of Electronic Device runs to 51 pages, [<a href=http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/privacy/privacy_pia_cbp_laptop.pdf>link</a>], and after reading the first few pages I fail to see how laptop searches (as well as any other form of data storage device, e.g., ipod, memory stick, …) is going to discover, let alone interdict, "merchandise" (what on earth?) or industrial espionage or … I'll read the whole thing eventually, but not yet."
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"What we learned in August is something we've long known but keep forgetting: The most important difference between America's Democratic left and Republican right is that the left has ideas and the right has discipline." Dr. Reich reminds us what the real goal is in the "health care debate." NOT what the rethuglicans are reframing it as.
XKCD strikes again! This is exactly what I do to try to figure out how some program works!
Tech Support Cheat Sheet
Click here and hold your mouse just over the image to read the real punchline. 
