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There is an article on NPR.com about Joni Mitchell and her latest music. It is worth reading of you are a fan, or planning to become one in the near future. I listened to some of the cuts featured on the site and watched the provided video of Ms. Mitchell singing her coyote song on a 1979 tour. This was all good for me.

What I, being a fan of Rudyard Kipling, found most fascinating was the song she did putting his poem If to music. Very nice. Very nice indeed. As I was listening to it, rendered mostly word for word from the original, I wondered how she would handle to final five words.

She changed them. Much in the same way the man who recently re-recorded her song Yellow Taxi modified the last words of that song to fit in with his gender.

I have no problem with this. It is the general message, akin to the now popular lists used to manage life, that I love. I read it to my son every year on his birthday. I don’t change the last five words.
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Jake 2.0, a short-lived series on SciFi, ran along the same premise of computer technology invading a nerd and making him valuable to the “intelligence” community. Jake 2.0 ran on the Canadian reality while Chuck has California based Corporate Broadcasting’s version of reality as its base. Neither has any idea what it is the people in the CIA and the NSA do.

Both have them as active killers on US soil. The CIA agent stabs half a dozen people on the dance floor and no one notices, except the NSA agent who a few moments ago told his minions that it would be alright to kill the CIA agent, in the club, in LA, if she got in their way. On what planet do these people reside?

As for TV science, similar to cartoon physics, the nano-robots in Jake 2.0’s body were somewhat more believable than the mental download Chuck receives staring into a laptop’s screen for several hours without blinking or going to the bathroom. One saving grace is his sidekick. I haven’t seen a good sidekick on network television for a while.

We will give it a chance, it has been put on the subscribed list on TiVo but its space there is not guaranteed for the season.
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This link discusses a dangerous bug to the older version of OpenOffice.org.  It goes on to say this bug does not effect 2.3 and is only present when .tiff files are opened from another OO.o file.

What is funny here is the chatter that follows this message on ZDNet.  Talk about blue and red states.  This debate is MS and OpenSource all the way.  Humanity always seems to find a reason to fight. 

Tsk, tsk, tsk.  I would say grow up, but that doesn’t seem to help.  In fact, I think the grown-ups are much more dangerous.
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Thunderbird, with the right add-on does all of the above and let’s you reply.

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If you have gone to the LearnFirefox website before from any of the many times I have mentioned, listed, or linked it, you may want to take a fresh look.
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When I saw the headline in this morning’s New York Times, “Magna Carta is Going on the Auction Bloc.” I didn’t believe it. I knew it was on display at the National Archives in Washington, D.C., but I thought it was in possession of the United States. But, it would seem not.

It was on loan from the Ross Perot family. They now want to sell it to raise money for medical research and help veteran’s familys.

Will the next person who buys it lend it back to the archives or is it going to be someone whose source of wealth is from oil? Might the English want it back?

If I was them, I would.

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I must admit, that is not something I thought I would ever write.  In the past there was nothing about the big bang theory I found in any way humorous.  Now that it is a TV sitcom, between How I Met Your Mother and 2 and 1/2 Men, I can say that.

It can honestly be said, if you read blogs, you will find this show funny.
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The ancient offline editor from Brazil, w::bloggar works with SquareSpace.  ScribeFire and Ooo 2.3 work with everything else.  I will leave Qumana on my machine in the vague hope somewhere down the line either they fix it, or someone from the depths, (more than five Google pages deep) comes up with a setting that works.

w::bloggar had SquareSpace as a choice of settings.  All I put in were the user name and password and we were it.  I will admit being surprised.  Also relieved that it worked.  My 21-day free trial at SquareSpace is running out.
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Browsing around we found another editor, Zempt. This one set up nicely in the WordPress blogs, but doesn’t seem to like SquareSpace. Jeeeze, Looooeeeeezzzz!
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