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06/07/2013

It's official. My son is smarter than me

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He's a game designer/programmer and he's graduating today. Now if he can only design the next Angry Birds....

http://gameproject.fullsail.com/gpgames/index.php/2013/05/eris/

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05/03/2013

Are you into 80's new wave/alternative music? Do you remember WLIR?

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If you've lived in the 80's and 90's and you were into new wave/alternative have I got good news for you. The premier radio station in the New York City area for new wave/alternative from 80's and 90's is back. And since it's online you don't have to live here to enjoy it.

I remember listening to WLIR both at work and at home back in the day. I was never a pop music sort of guy and the songs WLIR picked were innovative and ground breaking. All of the other stations in the New York City area were like regular radio - bland. Years ago there were forces in the radio industry working against WLIR. And unfortunately WLIR was no more. Oh yes, you can get this sort of music on Pandora but it still feels like something is missing. It's almost like services like Pandora are playing it too safe in their music selection.

So if you are interested you can find WLIR at wlir.fm.

And from what I can tell it's available around the world so no worries if you're on the other side of the pond or other side of the world.

Posted by Jim Casale At 6:14 AM Location Bellerose, NY (NYC) | | Comments (0) | del.icio.us  Technorati  Digg This 

04/09/2013

Does Bill Gates have nothing better to do?

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I recently became aware of an initiative by the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation to track student information. The merits of such a system could be debated but what cannot be debated is the fact that not one New York City parent was asked, or even told, about this use of their child's data.

Some of you may say that the age of privacy is gone with Social Media, etc being all the rage. This issue has nothing to do with Twitter, Facebook, etc. When I choose to use these services I do so willing and with the knowledge I am giving up some privacy in exchange for use of the service. In the case of the inBloom database I did not consent to having private information about my child used.

As a parent I believe it is my choice as to what my children's data is being used for except for official New York City Board of Education purposes. Obviously the New York City Board of Education has the obligation to use this data to track my children's progress as they move through the grades. Call me a curmudgeon but I have an issue with a government agency freely giving out my children's information to a non-profit or any other type of  entity.

Ah you say "Well it is non-profit. Why make a stink about it?"

Even though it is non-profit that does not preclude them from allowing for-profit companies from obtaining/using the data. They don't even guarantee that it will be secure (It's run by a Rupert Murdoch company - need I say more?)

"Local education officials retain legal control over their students' information. But federal law allows them to share files in their portion of the database with private companies selling educational products and services. (emphasis added) "

"While inBloom pledges to guard the data tightly, its own privacy policy states that it "cannot guarantee the security of the information stored ... or that the information will not be intercepted when it is being transmitted."

Here is what information is being used/collected

Name, address, Social Security number, attendance, test scores, homework completion, career goals, learning disabilities, and even hobbies and attitudes about school.

See screen shots of the data here

I have reached out to my local elected officials. Only time will tell what becomes of this issue. But I am not holding out much hope.

Posted by Jim Casale At 5:45 AM Location Bellersoe (NYC) | | Comments (1) | del.icio.us  Technorati  Digg This 

12/28/2012

Notes/Domino job opportunities for 2012/12/28 (16 entries)

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Until I get the feed/site issues worked out I will be posting the LotusJobs updates here. Sorry for the inconvenience

Notes/Domino job opportunities for 2012/12/28 (16 entries)

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12/27/2012

Notes/Domino job opportunities for 2012/12/26 (12 entries)

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Until I get the feed/site issues worked out I will be posting the LotusJobs updates here. Sorry for the inconvenience

Notes/Domino job opportunities for 2012/12/26 (12 entries)

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09/10/2012

Windows 7 issue running under Linux KVM

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I recently ran into a problem where all my Windows 7 vm's running under Linux KVM would start and then crash before the Windows login screen. All the other vm's (Windows 2008-2003, Windows XP, various flavors of Linux did not have an issue. I keep up to date on all patches on the host and the vm's so I figured it had to be something that was updated. I am still not sure which side of the equation is to blame but suffice to say, after much trial and error, I found by disabling the Windows "Power" service in Safe Mode I was able to boot the Windows 7 vm's.

Very descriptive name right? The description is "Manages power policy and power policy notification delivery.". Since I am not concerned about power policy on test vm's disabling it should not be an issue for me. Your mileage may vary

A picture named M2

Posted by Jim Casale At 10:55 AM Location Bellerose, NY (NYC) | | Comments (0) | del.icio.us  Technorati  Digg This 

09/05/2012

Lotus Notes and Tripit

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I am not sure where Viktor found the fix but it appears the fix with Tripit and Lotus Notes calendar feed is simply changing webcal:// to https://.

I also don't know what changed to cause this issue tooccur when it had been working for as long as I have used the TripIt service. Sad to say Tripit support has been no support at all

Posted by Jim Casale At 9:30 AM Location Bellerose, NY (NYC) | | Comments (1) | del.icio.us  Technorati  Digg This 

09/05/2012

Phone Spam and Telemarketers

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If you are like many Americans you are probably getting a bunch of spam phone calls even though you maybe on the FTC's Do Not Call list. To say the Do Not Call list is a joke would be an understatement.

You can normally tell a spam phone call by the Caller ID such as

Toll Free Call
Name Unavailabl
(000) 000-0000
Account Services
Credit Card Services

These are just some of the many fictitious names used by phone spammers.

I was barraged with the same number for 4 days straight all approximately the same time. I sometimes use 800notes.com to do look-ups and see if a number is legitimate. Well in this instance it looks like I found at least one reason why these spammers persist even though many times the call is never answered. I found a link on 800notes.com that explains at least one reason why we get these calls

Obviously it's for the money but not for why you might think. Look at the third section down to find out the answer

A picture named M2


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06/06/2012

Good case for User-Agent checking

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Hummm....OK. I think this web site needs some User-Agent checking.



A picture named M2

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05/31/2012

You can't kill yourself with soda but you can kill yourself on a bicycle

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Our beloved Mayor of New York City has deemed sugary drinks larger than 16 oz's to be bad for you and wants to outlaw them for your safety. That same Mayor doesn't have a problem with you riding a bicycle in Manhattan traffic without a safety helmet. Huh? So in essence you can't be fat but you can be dead.

For the record I don't think drinking a lot of soda is healthy for you but I also believe the proposed law is useless (as you can just buy four 16 oz sodas)

Posted by Jim Casale At 6:00 PM Location Bellerose, NY (NYC) | | Comments (1) | del.icio.us  Technorati  Digg This 

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