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Scripting News: 5/5/2005
By Dave, May 5, 2005 7:59 pm
And Dave Winer nails it again!
I mean come on folks. Treat your customers right and they will come back. Give us good info and we’ll click through. Put ads in the RSS feeds and some (like me) will remove the feed. Then where is your job, Mr. Marketing Drone?
Adding to this line of thought a bit.
I changed browsers from IE to Mozilla to get rid of popups. I changed OS’s from Windows to Linux because of virii. I changed again from Linux to Mac partially cause I was tired of futzing with Linux all the time to keep it up to date but mostly to get the work done without the OS getting between me and my writing. So I will certainly change my news source(s) if the ads even START to get in the way of what I am trying to read.
And a word to the IDIOT marketing droids that seem to think that the ads with all the moving, crawling, buzzing, flashing CRAP get more attention. You are absolutely right. They get my attention and unless its a REAL good article I WILL CLOSE the window unless there is a print this page link that I can go to that will stop the movement. It makes me physically ill to try to read something while there is movement in my field of vision. And I NEVER click on one of them. And I also make a note to remember to NEVER buy anything from a company that uses such marketing tactics.
I vote with my money. So if yall don’t need my business just keep throwing this crap that I am NOT interested in in my face and I’ll keep adding to my list of folks to NEVER buy from.
*Looks like I got a special on CAPS for this post…
New Scientist Breaking News – New drug offers jitter-free mental boost
By Dave, May 5, 2005 7:34 pm
New Scientist Breaking News –
New drug offers jitter-free mental boost
RedNova News – Space – NASA Gives Artificial Gravity a Spin
By Dave, May 5, 2005 8:05 am
RedNova News – Space – NASA Gives Artificial Gravity a Spin
Guess since they don’t have a small black hole to generate gravity spin is the way to go…
Victorinox acquires rival Wenger
By Dave, May 5, 2005 8:04 am
Victorinox acquires rival Wenger
I never thought of Wenger as Victorinox’s rival. Their knives are not near the quality of the Victorinox knives. At least the ones I have owned. 2 Wenger’s and either 6 or 7 Victorinox’s. The philips head screwdriver is not near as good and the blades don’t seem to hold an edge as well. But I do abuse tools or so I have been told. Several times.
Boing Boing: Purple sombrero confiscated in the interest of national security
By Dave, May 5, 2005 7:59 am
Boing Boing: Purple sombrero confiscated in the interest of national security
New Scientist Breaking News – Meat-eating dinosaur caught turning veggie
By Dave, May 5, 2005 7:57 am
New Scientist Breaking News – Meat-eating dinosaur caught turning veggie
New Scientist Breaking News – Indonesia confirms its second case of polio
By Dave, May 5, 2005 7:56 am
New Scientist Breaking News – Indonesia confirms its second case of polio
Crew Exploration Vehicle – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
By Dave, May 5, 2005 7:55 am
★ The Joy of Tech! ★
By Dave, May 5, 2005 7:52 am
They’ve outdone themselves this time!
Citrus: Deputies report rampage of naked, shocking behavior
By Dave, May 5, 2005 7:50 am
Citrus: Deputies report rampage of naked, shocking behavior
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You have to wonder what kind of drugs he was doing that day. Or what kind or worms were eating his brain. Or which god told him to to do what.
Wednesday Morn on the hill
By Dave, May 4, 2005 10:37 pm
Spent yesterday (tuesday) cutting brush and hauling junk.
Got the fence from the qhut to the road trimmed. Still got that in front of the qhut and on both sides of the road down to the barn to go.
Got Bertha cleared off and a load of wood on it now. Loaded it last light last night and didn’t unload into the burn pile yet. Trailer tongue is moved as is Martha’s greenhouse base. Almost to the point that I can cut some trees down and start reshaping the area. Going to put a terrace in just east of the 12 wide and lower the ground level to the north except around the holly and cedar trees. Guessing either parking or drive and parking. Will figure it out when I get there.
One thing that is becoming more and more obvious is that I am going to need a large area under roof if I am going to keep much of the junk I have collected over the years. At present we are consolidating it in one place and somewhat organizing it as we go but with the cars that we are planning on taking apart we’re gonna have to have storage under roof. Trying to use tarps in this environment simply traps the moisture and rots, rusts or otherwise destroys what you have covered.
I went to move some desks that had been under tarp yesterday and upon removing the tarp the tops of the desks were ruined. No biggie as I was planning on taking the drawer unit out and using it only but still pissed me off. So…
Guess the next step is to build a large area under roof to warehouse the stuff.
Thinking about using the motor and transmission from the Mercury Zepher to power the sawmill. And a generator. And heat water. And run an air compressor. On wood gas using chips for a fuel source. Use an auger for auto feed. Also may want to figure on a hydrolic pump being driven on demand, to power things like the auger. Or just use an electric motor which will be simpler, cheaper, and easier to interface to with a computer to control the whole thing.
Few more quick thoughts here follow.
check cement requirements for building slab behind barn where shed is now.
call ragland about buying cement by the 55 gal drum
ck w johnny about brother in law hauling gravel and sand
what will it take to get the mixer working well enough to pour 30 yards or so.
look into bamboo reinforcement for replacing rebar or wire as well as using the chopped twigs and leaves in place of fiberglass.
make a crush tester. I need to build a press so have got the transport dollies. get ass to work. use pressure gauge on cylinder side of pump to monitor pressure exerted. cone in press and crush. work or not?
get inverter to run power tools from battery.
get voltage regulator for welder to charge battery.
get post hole digger from bill brock.
add handles to gravel screen.
that’s all for now. going back out and at it again.
Bamboo: A Multipurpose Agroforestry Crop
By Dave, May 4, 2005 10:34 pm
Bamboo: A Multipurpose Agroforestry Crop
And another with mucho links to other sites.
Bamboo Gardener – Homepage
By Dave, May 4, 2005 10:32 pm
If I haven’t here is another good bamboo resource.
ABS – Bamboo as Raw Material
By Dave, May 4, 2005 6:28 pm
Can’t remember if I posted this link before or not. Much info!
*Play the Flute, Make a Flute* MARK SHEPARD’S FLUTE PAGE *Playing, Making, Fingering Chart*
By Dave, May 4, 2005 6:26 pm
*Play the Flute, Make a Flute* MARK SHEPARD’S FLUTE PAGE *Playing, Making, Fingering Chart*
Cool!
Personal information management, to do lists, organizer: Backpack
By Dave, May 4, 2005 6:23 pm
Personal information management, to do lists, organizer: Backpack
Another one I am not sure of. Just looking at the moment.
Welcome to Growl!
By Dave, May 4, 2005 9:25 am
Not sure yet. Just downloaded it to try.
“Growl is a global notification system for Mac OS X. Any application can send a notification to Growl, which will display an attractive message on your screen. Growl currently works with a growing number of applications.”
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