If you haven't done so already, go to the eReader site (www.ereader.com) and download every one of your books to your Mac/PC. Disk space is cheap, and eReader could go out of business. They could be in business for another 100 years, but why take chances?
]]>If you haven't done so already, go to the eReader site (www.ereader.com) and download every one of your books to your Mac/PC. Disk space is cheap, and eReader could go out of business. They could be in business for another 100 years, but why take chances?
As near as I can tell, the problem with downloading really big books is that the eReader server won't let a download run for long enough to download to your iPhone. The solution: Download the book from your own, local web server.
Here's how to do it on a Mac:
Note: Make sure you use the "ereader://" protocol and not http://.
]]>Chrome 4 is installed in S:\Chrome-Portable. I'm going to (try to) put Chrome 5 in S:\Chrome-Portable-5.
]]>Chrome 4 is installed in S:\Chrome-Portable. I'm going to (try to) put Chrome 5 in S:\Chrome-Portable-5.
I looked in "C:\Documents and Settings\kk4056\local settings\application data\google\Google Calendar Sync\logs" and found the error message:
Participant is neither attendee nor organizer]]>
I looked in "C:\Documents and Settings\kk4056\local settings\application data\google\Google Calendar Sync\logs" and found the error message:
Participant is neither attendee nor organizer
Well excuuuuuse me! For some reason, if Google doesn't see your email address in the invitation (perhaps you were a BCC?), it refuses to add what it considers to be someone else's appointment to your calendar.
In my case, my Exchange ID was something like k12345@example.com. I went to GMail, and told it that I sometimes send email as k12345@example.com, and now it believes that appointments for k12345@example.com are appointments for me.
]]>Solution: Right-click on the item, select Permissions, and grant yourself permission to update the item!
]]>Solution: Right-click on the item, select Permissions, and grant yourself permission to update the item!
]]>What:
Why:
What:
Why:
How:
Some helpful links:
After some investigation, I realized that it was slow to start only when my laptop was connected to a company LAN; elsewhere it took about 5 seconds. The problem does not occur with version 3.1.
]]>After some investigation, I realized that it was slow to start only when my laptop was connected to a company LAN; elsewhere it took about 5 seconds. The problem does not occur with version 3.1.
I checked the Evernote log, and the 90 seconds is getting spent BEFORE the log file is opened. With 3.5, they started using .Net. My theory is that there's something about their use of .Net that is causing it to attempt a network operation, and it has to wait for the operation to time out.
As a work-around, I created start-evernote.cmd, containing:
ipconfig /release start evernote.exe sleep 5 ipconfig /renew
(This assumes that you have a program named "sleep.exe" that will pause for the indicated number of seconds.)
Now I've got about a 10 second start-up.
The down-side of this approach is that it briefly turns off the network. Typically, this isn't too bad, but when I'm using a VPN I have to go through the whole VPN password/connect sequence. It also doesn't help with enscript.exe (which turns around and runs evernote.exe WITHOUT dropping/raising the network connection).
]]>I wish I'd thought of this. Paraphrased from http://www.marriedtothesea.com/041410/hate-government-and-taxes.gif
]]>I wish I'd thought of this. Paraphrased from http://www.marriedtothesea.com/041410/hate-government-and-taxes.gif
]]>Not too long ago, I had some surgery. I have health insurance. The hospital charged about $10,000 for its part of my surgery. (The surgeon billed separately.) Because I have health insurance, the hospital charged $10,000. The hospital would have charged someone without health insurance $60,000 for the same service.
It is printed right there on the bill. It says:
'Negotiated rate' means that my health insurance has told the hospital it will pay only $10,000 for the operating room.
I'm fortunate to have a white collar job with a large corporation, so I can get health insurance. (Since I've had surgery, I can't get an individual policy any longer.) The poor guy who cleans the halls and bathrooms where I work can't get insurance.
It is absolutely criminal to charge him six time more than me for the same service.
End the practice of the poor subsidizing healthcare for the wealthy. If you can't see what is wrong with this practice, ask any kindergarten kid if he thinks it is a good idea to charge him $6 for a candy bar that Bill Gates can buy for $1.
]]>Socialism: A system which advocates public ownership and control of the means of production and allocation of resources.
What is it that they think Obama wants the public (i.e. the citizens of the USA) to own?
What would be wrong with the citizens of the USA owning it?
Socialism: A system which advocates public ownership and control of the means of production and allocation of resources.
What is it that they think Obama wants the public (i.e. the citizens of the USA) to own?
What would be wrong with the citizens of the USA owning it?
What I think they are really complaining about is providing health insurance for someone who can't buy it on his own. If you think that not providing health insurance for someone is the same as not providing healthcare for that person, raise your hand.
You there, in the back of the blogosphere... When Joe Sixpack shows up at the emergency room, bleeding profusely, and he doesn't have health insurance. Who do you think pays to stop the bleeding?
Are you really serious about not funding his healthcare? So when Joe shows up in the ER, without an insurance card, are you thinking that they'd say, "Hey Joe. We'd like to help you, but first you're going to run down to the ATM and withdraw $10,000 so that we know you can pay for your first day of care."
What about if Joe is in a major car wreck? Should the ambulance leave him by the side of the road to die and rot if he doesn't have a health insurance card or the cash to pay for it? Who's going to collect the body if he has no family? If you're really serious about not paying a cent for someone else's healthcare, this is what you're advocating.
So either you're saying, "Let 'em die if they ain't got health insurance or a wad of cash," or you're saying, "I don't want to pay for health insurance, but I'll pay for healthcare." Which one is it?
]]>If Congress simply leaves the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) where it is today, gradually, as inflation takes its toll, we will all become covered by the AMT. In effect, we could all file an AMT short form. No more schedules A and B, or the long form 1040.
]]>If Congress simply leaves the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) where it is today, gradually, as inflation takes its toll, we will all become covered by the AMT. In effect, we could all file an AMT short form. No more schedules A and B, or the long form 1040.
]]>What would you say would be a good target tax rate? Would 20% be a fair price to pay for:
What would you say would be a good target tax rate? Would 20% be a fair price to pay for:
If we could get all that for a 20% income tax rate, that sounds like a fair deal, right? Wouldn't it be great if you income tax rate were 20%?
Except that the average federal tax rate for people with taxes to pay is currently less than 13%.
That's right. The 'Tea Party' folks are pitching a fit over the 'unfair' average tax rate (not including the people with no taxes to pay) of less than 13%.
Source: www.taxfoundation.org (retrieved on March 29, 2010)
]]>Wow. Astonishing. The article goes on to observe that the demographic shift in the U.S. (i.e. the increasing percentage of the population composed of "minorities") represents a threat to those who were comfortable with a white, mostly male leadership.
If your model of America resembles Leave It to Beaver, you're going to find each of the following a threat (individually):
Wow. Astonishing. The article goes on to observe that the demographic shift in the U.S. (i.e. the increasing percentage of the population composed of "minorities") represents a threat to those who were comfortable with a white, mostly male leadership.
If your model of America resembles Leave It to Beaver, you're going to find each of the following a threat (individually):
If I felt that America was supposed to resemble Leave It to Beaver, I'd feel absolutely terrified by any of these, let alone all of them. I'd feel that my very existence was threatened. I'd feel that my world was coming to an end, and if I were on the religious right as well as the political right, I might even feel that the increasing rate of change signaled the onset of Armageddon.
When they rage about 'taking back America,' remember that the America they have in mind is awfully similar to the America of the deep South of 1950.
Remember also that it is fear that causes a cornered wild animal to strike. How do we get them past that fear?
]]>Digsby
- can be made semi-portable via http://www.mcsoft.online.fr/madcow/?Ninja-Digsby.htmlGMail
Google Chat
Linked-in
NOT Skype
Trillian - I didn't see a portable
GMail
Skype
]]>Trillian - I didn't see a portable
Facebook
GMail
Twitter
Skype
Google Chat
NOT Linked-In
Meebo - doesn't do Skype, LinkedIn, or Twitter
On the iPhone:
Beejive - does Google Talk and Facebook
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<a href="#" onclick="myFunc(0);">Call myFunc</a>
and in my JavaScript, it includes something like this:
function myFunc(num) {
alert("got here");
}
In Firefox, clicking on the link displays the alert. In Internet Explorer, it produces an "Object expected" error.
I did a little poking around and I learned that myFunc is not defined in IE.
]]><a href="#" onclick="myFunc(0);">Call myFunc</a>
and in my JavaScript, it includes something like this:
function myFunc(num) {
alert("got here");
}
In Firefox, clicking on the link displays the alert. In Internet Explorer, it produces an "Object expected" error.
I did a little poking around and I learned that myFunc is not defined in IE.
<a href="#" onclick="alert("Type is:" + typeof(myFunc));">Call myFunc</a>produces an alert which says, "Type is:undefined".
I defined the function in a systemConfig Tiddler in my TiddlyWiki, so I thought maybe it was something funky about TiddlyWiki. It turns out that IE has a quirk, in that global functions aren't visibly globally by default. Or, maybe it is that references to apparently global functions are qualified with "window."
At any rate, changing my JavaScript to:
function myFunc(num) {
alert("got here");
}
window.myFunc = myFunc;resolved the problem.