"Murphy was an optimist!"
What is blogging? April 20, 2006 3:15 pm
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Daily LifeIs it me, or has blogging become about cheap attempts to get linked to from Michael, Laurence, and Glenn?
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MeMemEmEMEmeme April 20, 2006 2:58 pm
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Backwards punishment April 20, 2006 12:28 pm
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : News, Of InterestHonestly, instead of punishing him shouldn’t we give him a certificate for creativity and punish the girls for stupidity?!
MIAMI (Reuters) – A 76-year-old man claiming to be a doctor went door-to-door in a Florida neighborhood offering free breast exams, and was charged with sexually assaulting two women who accepted the offer…
One woman became suspicious after the man asked her to remove all her clothes and began conducting a purported genital exam without donning rubber gloves…
At least two women, both in their 30s, let him into their homes and he fondled…
Read that closely. She let a strange man into her house, allowed him to fondle her breasts, then stripped naked for him and only after she allowed him to touch her genitals did she realize he wasn’t wearing gloves and only then did she become suspicious. [Source]
Since we are pointing out victomizations in the news, the woman found alive in a landfill should not go without notice.
A landfill employee … saw Huston’s feet sticking out from a garbage pile…
…she was driving to work Thursday morning when a man wearing a ski mask and carrying a gun climbed into her car, demanding that she drive south. The next four nights… they drove through Washington, Oregon and California. They stopped occasionally at rest stops and service stations. …
here was no indication she had been assaulted.
I understand fear does strange things to a person. I understand kidnap victoms take to their captors. I don’t understand how in 4 days during which the car jacker had to sleep, and past numerous state troopers that they must have driven by, that she couldn’t draw attention to her situation. Flip the bird at a cop. Tap out SOS with the brake lights. Do something!
I tried hard, without success, to get my daughter to take a self-defense class and all I got was "I know all that stuff." I would like to hope that I am not enabling her to be a victomvictim. [Source]
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Time to close a window – Calendar Apps April 20, 2006 6:28 am
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Daily Life, Software, TechnologyThis window has 21 tabs open. I pretty much am disenchanted with most of the CRM software out there like Act! and Goldmine and equally as disappointed in most calendar software including Yahoo Groups‘ calendars. Lately, I have been trying Hipcal out but have not been knocked off my feet yet. Everyone probably has heard by now that Google has released its much anticipated Web 2.0 Google Calendar. I’ve had this tab open since the day it came out so I could review it and give feedback. I have neither a review and the only feedback is that it looks like all the rest with perhaps the exception of better calendar sharing opportunities (and spam opportunities).
Btw, for those wondering, "what is web 2.0?" It is just a buzz word for webpages/sites that refresh or load information behind the scenes so you don’t have to watch the page reload.
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ding ding ding ding April 20, 2006 5:35 am
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Daily Life, Noah, Sarah, TommyTime to wake the doughnuts.
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Time to close a window – Advertising Revenue Research April 20, 2006 4:58 am
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Daily LifeI’m about to put up a forum/discussion group on one of my domains. As much as I hate obnoxious advertising, monetizing a website really does help the publisher cover hosting costs et al. Google’s Adsense won’t work in the forum environment I am considering as per their TOS since I am thinking about having only registered users in the forums. I have reviewed Vibrant Media’s IntelliTXT and am rather impressed with it’s subtleness, distinction from hyperlinks yet acting like hyperlinks, and ability to aptly match an advertisement with the user’s entry.
The Firefox extension Adblock does stop both Adsense and Vibrant Media but I still think it is worth trying. In the least, this window with one tab has been open for weeks and needs to close.
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Time to close a window – Parent Resources April 20, 2006 2:40 am
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Cool Sites, Of InterestThis window has 3 tabs. One is for another post and two are parenting related.
Blogtopsites presents the top parenting blogs.
The Exploratorium brings us an invaluable list of hands-on activities! These include:
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Workin’ April 20, 2006 2:07 am
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Daily Life, ProgrammingI avoided the sirens song and am happily banging keys.
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