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Seeking Political Asylum - need ride

2009/01/07

Dear UFOians:

Passive Income Smooths the Flow

2009/01/05

Passive income is income that requires no work - an annuity that sends you a monthly check is an example. It may have taken a lot of work to accumulate the money you used to purchase that annuity, but after that you just cash the checks - or not even that if they go right into your bank account.

Hitting the Google Sweet Spot

2009/01/04

When I was researching the competition for my Working for yourself e-book of course I visited Google to search for related books and websites. Imagine my surprise this morning when I searched Google for "Work for yourself" and found that page on page one in the sixth position! That's pretty darn good!

Vista Boomers - Microsoft's Power Failure

2009/01/04

Whenever there has been a protracted power outage, it has often been followed by an upsurge in births nine months later. We all understand why: people are bored, stuck in the dark with nothing else to do.

Book Review: Programming in Objective-C 2.0 (Second Edition)

2009/01/03

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Stephen G Kochan
Addison Wesley
9780321566157

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Frustrated by LinuxToday's comment system

2009/01/02

I'm very frustrated by the comments at LinuxToday's link to one of my posts. The problem is that it takes hours for comments to appear, and I'm not even sure that all of my replies have been posted at all. Therefore I'm going to dupe my response here:

Another look at Linux code dependencies

2009/01/02

This was in response to my Linux clipboard utilities lead to frustration and defeat.

Stupid is as stupid does and I've done plenty of stupid

2009/01/02

A few of the comments here and at that LinuxToday post have questioned my competence and made fun of my selling an ebook on Linux and Unix troubleshooting. Here's a typical sample:

I found it highly amusing that at the top of these articles you are trying to sell "ebooks" about "how to solve the tough problems on Linux and Unix systems." A person who doesn't know you (and I don't) might be forgiven for thinking he would be paying for help from a newbie.

Tear me a new one

2009/01/02

I got roundly thrashed at LinuxToday for suggesting that Linux might not be ready to take over the world just yet. It wasn't all that bad - as usual, there were some nice, friendly people and even the complaints weren't particularly vicious. Or maybe they were and I'm just too thick skinned to notice..

Linux clipboard for Ubuntu leads to same frustration and defeat

2009/01/02

After being soundly berated for my previous post on this subject, I decided to try the experiment again with a more Desktopish Linux distro: Ubuntu 8.10. I installed it in a virtual machine, downloaded 208 updates, and decided to see what luck a neophyte user would have installing clipboard utilities here.

Silly Spammer Cooks His Own Goose

2009/01/01

Every blogger gets spam comments and of course this site is no exception. My commenting software catches a lot of them just because of words they use or certain patterns in their text, but now and then junk gets through.

That was the year that was

2008/12/31

The year 2008 has a few hours to run as I write this, but I don't expect a lot of visitors today, so it's a reasonable enough time to wrap things up and call it a year.

Linux clipboard utilities lead to frustration and defeat

2008/12/31

I went looking for Linux clipboard manager utilities and found plenty to choose from. The trick is figuring out what to Google for: "Linux clipboard manager" and "Linux clipboard viewer" seem to do the trick.

The Shadow Knows (Mac OS X clipboards)

2008/12/30

After writing up How I use Jumpcut and pbcopy for Power Pasting, I went searching for similar utilities in Linux. I haven't found any yet - I'm sure they exist, but Google doesn't want to give them up easily. However, while wandering around aimlessly looking for those, I did come across another Mac OS X copy and paste utility: Shadow.

Power Text Pasting with JumpCut and pbcopy

2008/12/29

I saw a Twitter Tweet recommending http://www.smileonmymac.com/TextExpander/. That's a nice little OS X app that "saves you countless keystrokes with customized abbreviations for your frequently-used text strings and images." I tried the free demo and it certainly does that. Nice piece of software, just $29.95.

The Internet isn't done with us yet

2008/12/29

I usually watch "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" on Sunday mornings. This week I missed most of the show because we were busy with company. I tuned in just a few minutes from the end and am not even sure who the guests were. They were giving 2009 predictions and/or complaining about this or that - I'm not entirely sure what the setup was.

Review: Bait and Switch

2008/12/29

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Barbara Ehrenreich
Metropolitan Books
9780739465530

Fear of Programming

2008/12/28

"I'm not a programmer". I understand. You just want to write your blog, you don't want to get into the mechanics. A lot of you don't even want to know anything about HTML and CSS, right?

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