I ranted about Kahlon but it appears they DID return my money and I’m really sorry.
Kahlon – I recommend ’em!
I got a call from Kahlon and they are confident they did credit me….checking into it now but I want to revise this post immediately because it looks like I may have been wrong…
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Kahlon makes memory for computers and generally gets good reviews for quality and price.
Like most Charlie Rose fans and PBS supporters I’m also a huge fan of “The Simpsons”, but I’m watching the season premier right now and it’s one of the worst Simpson’s I’ve ever seen – just terrible. It feels like some sort of writer’s strike is going on and they brought in the 4th string team. Odd, and sad.
I’ve seen Amusement World quoted twice now indicating that Walt Disney World’s four main parks see a combined attendance of about 40 million people per year. Las Vegas reports about the same number of annual visitors. This seems incredible, as Las Vegas has dozens of huge resorts and it would seem represents a much greater total investment. Perhaps it does but the per person spending is much greater, justifying the bigger investment? Perhaps Disney is counting people twice if they go to more than one of their parks in the same visit?
More research needed.
Hey, here are some fun Las Vegas Statistics I like the fact that the Shrimp Cocktails at the Golden Gate have zero inflation.
PBS, which I tend to think of as a good filter to screen out hype, is pushing the “Ultrametabolism” book and CD by Dr. Hyman. I like his scientific approach, which assumes the obvious – humans are primates who evolved to thrive on natural rather than processed foods.
However he seems far too confident that natural foods nutrition and some excercise are a panacea for health and WAY too concerned about all the “toxics” in the environment, especially when he adds sugar to the list of toxins. I’d like to ask him why early peoples who ate NO fast food or processed food and had no modern “toxins” in their environment suffered such low life expectancies.
Maybe I’m just feeling guillty about the ham sandwich and coffee I just ate for breakfast.
This notable marketing stat from the UltraMetabolism website:
The food industry spends more than $33 billion annually on marketing; 70% of those dollars go to pushing fast food, convenience foods, candy, snacks, soft drinks, alcoholic beverages and dessert.
33 Billion is just over $100 per year per person. Can I just have a rebate please?
Flickr has a fantastic, easy feature to post your Flickr picture in your WordPress Blog. First, add your blog to Flickr by logging into Flickr, going to your account and selecting add a blog.
Now you only need to visit your photo while logged in and click “blog this”. You’ll be asked to fill out the description and info *within Flickr*. After completing that and selecting “Post Entry”, your picture and the information you added in Flickr automatically become your WordPress blog post. Neat!
Yahoo Rocks again with Web 2.0!
My previous post, a mural picture from Chaimanus B.C., was done in this fashion.
Also see how to do a WordPress Flickr photo embed
Originally uploaded by JoeDuck.
Chemainus Mural, Chemainus B.C., Canada depicting the Native people of the British Columbia region, many of whom were displaced when Europeans arrived.
Maybe I’m just slow, but it took me a long time to figure out how to do some neat stuff with my Flickr pix and my WordPress hosted blog.
To embed your own Flickr photos in your WordPress blog you’ll need to first add the Flickr Widget by going to the WordPress Dashboard and selecting presentation, then sidebar widgets. Then, you click on the right side of the Flickr Widget, which opens up a dialog window, and you add your Flickr RSS feed. To get the RSS feed DO NOT log into Flickr, rather stay logged OUT and visit your own pix. The RSS feed will be located on that page. Note that your feed does NOT show up on Flickr when you are logged in (at least I could not find it and it, confusing the heck out of me for the first time in the otherwise amazingly intuitive Flickr).
Guy Kawalski is being WAY too hard on himself after losing his hard drive and failing to back it up. He cites the book “Why Smart People do Dumb Things” which suggests these ridiculous reasons for things like…failing to back up your hard drive: Hubris, Arrogance, Narcissism, Unconscious need to fail. (!)
Guy! I certainly agree you are a really smart fellow, but you REALLY had to stretch to fit those silly criteria to a hard drive. These authors obviously are spending way too much time on the new age couch and too little down at the local hardware store where you’d learn that the reason you didn’t do it was simply….laziness plus a correct assessment of negative ROI.
Backup time is not *directly* productive, it’s insurance against problems. Thus you must balance your problem against the 2,000 people who did NOT backup and did NOT have a problem. They, collectively, saved a YEAR of time assuming, very modestly, only one hour of “work” needed to backup. Collectively the “no backups” saved an entire YEAR of time. You probably only spent a few days recovering stuff. Over a lifetime of such decisions you can expect a great ROI by maintaining the level of risk you *correctly chose* when you didn’t backup the drive.
Conclusion – do NOT backup due to poor ROI. There are some things that offer good insurance value for the time/money. Backing up in the normal fashion is not one of them for most users (banks excluded).
OF COURSE critical info should be backed up, and it would sure be nice to have better backup systems that were easy and automatic. But as long as it takes over an hour and the MTBF on your hard drive is tens of thousands of hours, I say you are smart to follow the Nike antimatter mantra: “Just don’t do it”.
Originally uploaded by JoeDuck.
Canterbury in February of 2003. This is the Anglican World HQ. In USA this frame of thought is called “Episcopalian”.
Funny – I wasn’t going to post this but was messing around in Flickr, hit “blog this”, and it popped right in. Very nice Flickr!
When I agreed to help Star Properties with their new website I thought it would be easy to make them appear first at Google for “Talent Oregon Real Estate“. Why? They are easily the most relevant site for that search being the (only?), first, and best Real Estate office here in Talent.
Maybe I’m expecting too much from Google, but what seems to be happening is that my blog posts are rising to the top for this term rather than Star Properties’ (more appropriate) Talent Oregon real estate site.
It’s somewhat reasonable for Google to wait until a site is verified as “non spam” before they rise to the top for highly targeted searches, though it is also a search defect as it keeps the best sites from appearing for that waiting period, sometimes called “sandboxing” by SEO peeps.
I think what this indicates is how significant blogs are becoming to the search experience. Google correctly assumes a blog is fresher and more relevant than most sites.
Note that under the local listings there is a “Star Properties” but it links to the wrong site – one that just mentions them but has incorrect email and old website info. Google does have a procedure to correct this bad listing.
Joe Duck 