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Windows Home Server bug corrupts files - Engadget

Looks like we’ve got a definitive answer to “How would you change Windows Home Server?” — make it so it doesn’t corrupt data. Microsoft has just posted a Knowledge Base document saying that it’s confirmed WHS corrupts various files when saved to the server by certain apps. The bug affects several MS apps, including Money, Outlook 2007, Vista Photo Gallery, Live Photo Gallery, and SyncToy, but it also hits Quicken, Quickbooks, and — fatally for a media server — BitTorrent clients. Microsoft says it’s working on a fix, but that in the meantime, you should avoid using WHS with these apps.

The WordPress Bookmarklet

At the very bottom of your Write Post screen is a buried treasure feature of WordPress that is a powerful tool. The WordPress Press It bookmarklet is a bit of Javascript you can click and drag to your browser link bar. Just put your mouse over the link, press down on the left button and, without letting go, drag it to the top menu bar of your browser (most browsers) where the “Link Toolbar” resides and release it. It will add a link that says “Press It” and the name of your WordPress site.

When visiting a web page that has information you would like to share with your WordPress site users, click the Press It link and a window will pop-up. If you are not logged into your site, the login will appear. If you are, it will automatically bring up the Write Post screen with the link to the site you are currently viewing already set in the Post Editing box and the title of the site in your post Title box. You can write more information about the site, change the title, set the categories, and when you are ready, choose Save as Draft, Save as Private, and Publish. Choose Publish and your post is published to your site, ready for the world to see and read. Simple and easy.

from:

Press It « WordPress Codex
<a href=”javascript:Q=”;if(top.frames.length==0)Q=document.selection.createRange() .text;void (btw=window.open (’$SiteURL/wp-admin/bookmarklet.php?text=’ escape(Q) ‘&popupurl=’ escape (location.href) ‘&popuptitle=’ escape(document.title),’bookmarklet’ ,&’scrollbars=yes,width=600,height=460,left=100,top=150,status=yes’));btw.focus();”> Press it - $SiteName</a>

Innovative Minds Don’t Think Alike - New York Times

“I HAVE a DVD remote control with 52 buttons on it, and every one of them is there because some engineer along the line knew how to use that button and believed I would want to use it, too,” Mr. Heath says. “People who design products are experts cursed by their knowledge, and they can’t imagine what it’s like to be as ignorant as the rest of us.”

Really cool idea! This guy scans his old records to see if he can extract audio data from the scanned images! With downloadable MP3’s of what he found.

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1.The business of designing, making, and selling highly fashionable, usually custom-made clothing for women. 2. Dressmakers and fashion designers considered as a group. 3. The high-fashion clothing created by designers.

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inane question. why?

why is it every year you get bombarded with the question “are you ready for the holidays?” why do casual encounters become fraught with queries on one’s readiness for the christmas?

does anyone really care if one is “ready” for the christmas? or is it just another uncomfortable way of saying “i don’t know what else to say to you so i will act like the robot i am and ask you this since every other lemming is spouting off such drivel.” it gets under the skin - you really don’t care so why do you ask?

its almost as bad as the ever so casual - “how are you?” replacing the more easier “hello” from people who care nothing really for you, care not about your well being, but just need something to ask to present the appearance of civility and caring.

so, the answer, for all of you not reading this trashy blog is, “No, i am not ready. Nor do i want to be.”

But i am ready to tell you that i’m not ready or planning to get ready or even thinking about being ready. does that make you feel any better?

listen - right click and choose “save as”

property of kyw newsradio.

An annual event at this time of year at KYW Newsradio 1060 is playing Yes, Virginia, There Is A Santa Claus, recorded by KYW’s longtime anchor, the late Vince Lee.

Vince was a news anchor there until his death on Mother’s Day of 1977. This recording was originally broadcast in December 1976.

the newspaper clipping was found here.

this is the text:

“DEAR EDITOR: I am 8 years old.
“Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus.
“Papa says, ‘If you see it in THE SUN it’s so.’
“Please tell me the truth; is there a Santa Claus?
“VIRGINIA O’HANLON.
“115 WEST NINETY-FIFTH STREET.”

VIRGINIA, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except [what] they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men’s or children’s, are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.

Yes, VIRGINIA, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus. It would be as dreary as if there were no VIRGINIAS. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.

Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that’s no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.

You may tear apart the baby’s rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, VIRGINIA, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.

No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.

# 1. Liberality in bestowing gifts, especially in a lofty or condescending manner. 2. Money or gifts bestowed. # Generosity of spirit or attitude.

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