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Thursday 8 February 2007: Expedition National Park - Tag Along (Burpengary)
Noted: Looks like fun but I think It'd be a bit long in the car for kids though. Thanks anyway but we'll skip this one.
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Whip It - DEVO
Whip It - DEVO
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Dodi - Geddes Angel Baby
Dodi - Geddes Angel Baby
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Administration Manager
You can see this vacancy also under: administratie manager– management – manager administrator – leader – office manager Ready to take the next step in your career?Club La Costa Resorts&Hotels, a privately owned international Hospitality Group is looking ...........more
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Some facts about the development of ODF
I just stumbled over a quite new blog entry from my colleague Erwin - a really good one, I think! It clarifies some things about the development process of ODF. Read it, and I am sure after that you will also ask yourself why Microsoft started it's own XML document format, instead of simply participating ...
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SUSSEX-BEACH WITTTERINGS, Minute walk to
sea, 90acre picturesque estate. Chalet bungalows, sleep-6, entertainment, outdoor heated pool, tennis courts, dogs welcome. From £200...
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Knitted Fabrics, Functional Knit Fabrics, Quick Dry, Moisture management
Knitted Fabrics, Functional Knit Fabrics, Quick Dry, Moisturemanagement
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Is that a laptop stuck on your fridge?
My household had this problem where we would run out of some supply, usually in our refrigerator - not the essentials like milk, but things like yogurt or ginger and other stuff like paper napkins. And when it was time to get groceries or make a visit toCostco, we would start making a list and inevitably forget that light bulb or kitchen towel that we needed. Also, in our neighborhood, every Wednesday is garbage day (when the good folks atWaste Managementswing by to collect our waste), and every second Wednesday is recycling day. I can remember the every Wednesday part, but I can never remember which Wednesday is the second Wednesday. This gets more tedious when I skip recycling on some week - that totally messes with my internal recycling clock. We also have doctor’s appt’s for the kids, medicines that one of my tots needed to take on a regular basis, and other things, that we were forgetting to do. We used our work calendar for some of this, but I don’t look at my work calendaron weekends when my party animal kids have their birthday parties and play dates. And I don’t like to mix my home stuff in my work calendar.So, R suggested that we should have some way to keep a handy shopping list near the fridge and probably use some online calendar to keep track of our home life. And that is how I ended up with a laptop stuck on the door of my fridge to do exactly that.In my case I picked an old convertible Tablet PC and stuck it with some industrial strength Velcro strips on the door of my fridge. You can findold Toshiba Portegeconvertibles oneBayfor as“little” as $200-$300. Many of them have issues with the digitizer since the first edition Portege’s were quite shoddy, but often you can just rip it open and re-jig the digitizer and get it working again. The digitizer is basically stuck behind the LCD panel and the pressure while writing onthe Tablet, I assume, causes it to split away from the LCD or something like that. Remounting the digitizer and using some tape to make it bond more strongly with the panel seems to help. Kinda sorta. Mine worked flawlessly for a while and then gave up. I currently have it without any screws on thecase (relieves the pressure I suppose), but I still have one vertical band where the digitizer is dead, but I manage without that strip.A Tablet PC seems ideal for this since you can just write on it and don’t need a wireless keyboard and/or mouse lying around, and a convertible makes it nice since you don’t have to crack it open to get the LCD panel to face outwards.Anyways, here is the Tablet PC stuck on my fridge.I needed a few apps on it to make it useful, primarily a calendar and something to keep track of my shopping lists. I wanted the calendar to be on a service (or server) so I could add appointments from work but I also wanted to add appointments directly on my Tablet.Google,MSN, etc. provide calendar services, but unfortunately none of them support sync, only a read-only view. Thus, apps likeMozilla Sunbirddidn’t provide what I wanted. Luckily my ISP serves up Exchange goodness, so I setup my account there and fired up Outlook. I can now forward or schedule appointments from work to my fridge!For shopping lists, Windows Journal on the Tablet PC is perfect and so is OneNote. The Tablet PC also comes with a sticky notes app which also has voice support, so I could, if I want to, leave a message on my fridge for R (no, we aren’t that geeky).So, now as things run out in the fridge, we write it on our Tablet PC’s shopping list and just print out the list before we head out grocery shopping. (Though a mini-printer like the ones at the store POS devices would be nice to save paper.) I have also scheduled recurring appointments for things like “garbage day” and “recycle day” and other reminders like doctor appointments. No opportunities for those missed garbage and recycle bins anymore.And since we seem to spend so much time around the kitchen, I thought it would be good to glance at the fridge to know who was calling when the phone rang rather than having to hunt for the phone. So, I wrote a little service that taps my phone line over a modem (which sits in my garage), picks out the callerid and sends it to clients that are connected to it. The client runs on my Tablet PC and pops up a little window that shows who is calling along with a history of past calls. Geekiness galore.Next up: A kid-friendly mounting of a Tablet PC with apps for kids to doodle on. I saw a device in the kids area ofIkeain Renton. It is mounted on one side of a little"pillar". It has a touch screen and lets kids paint with their fingers, play the memory game, etc. Would be great to have one of these mounted low on a wall at home. Touchscreen would be ideal rather than a pen/stylus as is with Tablets (my kids might jab the pen into the screen). Lets see, maybe next year's project. :)
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Peru's Guerrero denies pre-match partying - Summary
Earthtimes.org Nov 22 2007 3:31AM GMT
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Starting Political Thought
How do you formulate a political position? What is our source of beliefs and ideological loyalties? It starts with how we see our self and others. Politics is all about society of people of all kinds coexisting with each other. How we perceive others leads to how we behave with each other. As children, we learn from our teachers, our environment, and the actions of people around us. We form opinions as to our personal worth and the value of others from our early life experiences. It always begins at the beginning. If raised in a healthy family, in a good environment, we learn we are good and everyone else is too. You are unique, they are unique, and you can all get along fine in society, playing, living and working together. That is a healthy view. Raised in a dysfunctional family, or bad environment, may cause us to believe we are no damn good and neither is anyone else. People with that "no damn good" view take what they can before others do. With these people, society needs defending with laws, police, courts and jails. That still leaves two more views. Some children are led to be self-centered, arrogant, seeing self as good, great, and heroic, and everyone else as pond scum, less than worthwhile. They think others need their guidance. The last view is the child that is taught that he or she is less than adequate, believing there are more worthy people out there to follow. They become the followers of the good, great and heroic, self-centered, arrogant people, the great American liberals, who want only to take charge. America began with most people thinking of themselves as good, worthy, excited about their future opportunities ahead, and saw others as equally good and excited. They had little choice, raised in a pioneer setting. They created, invented, pursued their ideas and dreams, and built great communities reflecting effort and accomplishments and resulting prosperity never known elsewhere. They left the few, who thought of themselves as a noble minority and their growing followers, behind in their dust. The nation grew from the efforts and ingenuity of the healthy ones who, for the most part, became prosperous through individual freedom. These people, the shakers and not the takers, built America. The arrogant collected their followers and began to challenge the free and prosperous to take what they created, share enough of it with those unable to keep up, to keep their support, and enrich themselves. They grew in numbers and spread across the nation as a political party to entice those who could not and would not help themselves, until they could intervene in the private market affairs of those who preferred freedom to servitude. The takers are exceeding the givers and doers. Tax eaters are outnumbering taxpayers. More youngsters are taking on the view that they are not as worthy as those few who profess to have great heroic leadership qualities. They are willing to follow politicians' dictates and prescriptions for a better life, because no one tells them it could be better following their own dreams, visions and aspirations. Schools no longer teach the Horatio Alger ideals of standing on your own two feet and pursuing your own interests, skills, talents and aspirations, as long as you contribute and not harm. Instead, they teach the youngsters that community interests stand above self-interests, and those who have should give to those who have not. As more and more families are dysfunctional, depressed, and alcoholic or drugged as defenses against living life on their own feet, the numbers of children who will accept a position as worthless followers' increases. Their view of the worthiness of self and others is so depressed they do not care about possibilities and opportunities to be worthy, happy and prosperous. The politicians have cornered that part of society who sees themselves as less worthy, prompted to envy the successes of others. Those who believe themselves superior, the modern American liberals, lead and feed their anger as they seek to change America to suit their beliefs and devour the Goose that lays the golden eggs. The Press, Hollywood, Television and the schools have worked hard to support these liberal views. Goodnight, America. If you enjoyed this post, please consider the following: 1. Make a donation of $1 or more to help keep this website active. 2. Click Here to Subscribe to the Free Populist Party Newsletter 3. Share this page or get the Populist Party RSS Feed Clay Barham [send him email] has been a candidate for the California legislature and a stand-in talk show host for ABC. He was educated in physical and behavioral sciences, with a Ph.D. in sociology. He is the author of five books, with his latest being Foundations of Modern American Conservatism and Liberalism: The Roots of Freedom and Tyranny. Visit his website at http://www.claysamerica.com.