The previous incarnation of LiveWriter would not, for some mystical and mysterious reason, not work with Windows LiveWriter.
It would seem that this version does. In words of my late and almost sainted mother, “This is a good thing.”
The days are getting shorter and the first week of school is done. It’s won’t be long before the leaves turn gold and red and them become so much litter.
Though we all know Summer has a few more weeks to it as the world tilts, but, tilt be damned, we have created this day in September, Labor Day.
It was originally designed to celebrate the working man and later woman. Now it is seen more of seasonal marker.
The fun is over, the business begins. At least in the US of A.
There never was a summer vacation that I recall that ended while it is still August, but my son is expected at school tomorrow, August 31, 2009.
I know it’s only one day, but it is still August.
I know there is the Swine Flu Thing, but it is still August.
It just doesn’t seem right. To me. My son seems to care less.
He is actually looking forward to going back to school.
What has happened to kids today???
Back in the day we would have organized committees, tacked signs to sticks, prepared safe houses and decided what to do if the police came. Now, they get on the bus, plug in their iPods, put on a happy face and go to school.
But, it’s still August!!!
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After a short break on the Rocky Coast of Maine and a rather disconcerting encounter with the dreaded Blue Screen of Death, we came back to find regulations unknown to us were waiting to remove a portion of our collective buttocks without properly filed documentation.
It was one of those things where everything in real time was done correctly but the documents proving that to the future were stuffed in a drawer, left open on a laptop’s desktop and not filed or were sitting in a briefcase in the trunk of car.
IOW, no big deal but the skills of an experienced file clerk were needed. That and a good, and scheduled, back-up program. The second digital issue was fixed immediately.
The surprise was that none of had every really done any filing. We lived in our laptops and Blackberrys. A chart was drawn i.e.: get file cabinet, find room for it, get the proper size hanging green things and properly colored folders.
Once the receptacle was in place the next step was collection. It took only one very long meeting for everyone to figure out who had what and how to bring it all to one place.
The services of UPS and Federal Express were needed as well as a FAX machine. There’s another blast from the past. We weren’t sure there was a FAX machine until we noticed it was a feature in the mega-wattage printer in the backroom where no-one goes.
The collective angst was soon abated when all the pods were in place and a plan created to prevent its reoccurrence. Part of the humor here is no one is probably every going to look at these files now they’re in place. However, the law of chance says, if they weren’t there, someone would ask about it tomorrow.
Believe it.
As an aside, my constant use of Evernote made my portion of this adventure much easier. I didn’t need the FAX or the overnight couriers. I brought up the program, signed in and, presto-change-o, there were all the files I needed. A quick connection to a color printer and I was sitting pretty.
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To all the fellow fathers out there, think not of today as your day. It is the day for your children, your family, to show their love for you by doing things they feel you would like.
It matters little whether any of these things are to your liking. You must show appreciation for the spirit in which they are given. Do this and you will be a good father.
Dom Deluise recently died.
That can be said to be sad, but he certainly left us a legacy of laughter.
On the NBC Nightly News, shown through the Hulu portal, I found this clip: …
On Facebook and elsewhere on the web there seems to be a lot of “stuff” about dreams of the future. That and the phrase “Considering The Economy…”
I feel as if it might be a good time to resurrect …
When we started creating Famous Grazing Blogs in 2004, it was the method of communication, the media, which captured out imagination.
We explored and tried every online and off line method for blog creation. Most of the blogs we created still linger out there, occasionally thrown scraps using LiveWriter.
Blogs were the method used by those who found in it a way to express their thoughts of the moment.
Then came social micro-blogging. MySpace, FriendFeed, Friendster and more recently Facebook and Twitter.
TinyPaste is a site Twitterites can use for the Continued spill over of the tweets.
Like moths to flames, as mentioned in the #moleskine line on Twitter, we were drawn away from the blog medium to the instant satisfaction, the crayon on the wall, expression offered by microblogs,
Then we are put to shame by our friend Deven. He throws up Education on the Plate on the WP site and starts to write professionally, thoughtfully. The microblog has replaced the comments portion of the blog, but he is using the extended palette blogging allows to fully express himself.
Perhaps his creation will inspire us to make better use of the blogs. I know more likely it will be like the YMCA tag I have on my key ring. I’ll know it’s there, but I always seem to be elsewhere. “ooh, shiny thing..”
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I won’t give energy by providing a link to the imbecilic ranting of a computer sub-geek who wrote that it would be a good idea to destroy the libraries of the world now they’re no longer needed. 
This is a person who most erroneously believes that all of the world’s knowledge and information can be retrieved from the laptop he brings to Starbucks.
Google and Wikipedia are the fonts of all wisdom in his small and stagnant brain.
Google and Microsoft, along with many school libraries are busy transferring information from books, but have barely touched the surface of the books held by universities. Even so, even if every book in the world had been scanned, would it still be a reason to destroy the libraries? Of course not.
If this person had bothered to visit a library recently he would have seen that public book stacks are the thin skin made visible. In geek language, they are the Favorites.
I won’t go into a long defense of an institution in its many incarnations, but will invoke the ghost of Andrew Carnegie and direct him to this man’s front door. I am sure Mr. Carnegie’s shade will know what to do next. 
In reading the news of late, there seems to have been many stories of groups of people conducting themselves in an unsafe manner. Has common sense left the collective intelligence of the human race? 
In a previous life I witnessed a woman clinging to a tree at a ball field get killed by a strike. She was told by those around her not to hide under the tree during a thunderstorm. She brushed them off with a comment about the low risk of getting hit.
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