Just the Thing Your Paranoid Friends

Think ahead to Christmas. Here’s just the thing to lay on your paranoid friend(s): The Super Trackstick.

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…the perfect tool for individuals, law enforcement and government agencies looking for a way to track anything that moves. The Super Trackstick records its own location, time, date, speed, heading, altitude and temperature at preset intervals. With over 4Mb of memory, it can store months of travel information.

The included magnetic mount makes the Super Trackstick easy to attach and remove from any metal surface.

Better yet, just get one, stick it to their car and show ’em maps from GoogleEarth of where (and when) they went yesterday… last week… Tell ’em you just got it off GoogleEarth.

*heh*


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Proof Positive: the Nobel “Peace” Prize is a Fraud of Monstrous Size

[With apologies to Rudyard Kipling for the borrowed appellation.]

Algore–that quintessential liar, poltroon and rabble-rouser–has “won” (read, “has been awarded the thing by a corrupt group of assinine ninnies”) the Nobel “Peace” Prize. Now, he can go off and celebrate his winnings with Yasser “Who, me? A terrorist?” Arafat *gag* (at least he’s rotting in hell) and Dhimmi Cahtah *spew* (“Baptist” or not, I doubt he’ll clear the Pearly Gates).

Birds of a feather.

I think I’m going to go over in a corner while my head explodes.

One bright note: maybe it’ll be just the thing to spur Mr. I-can-be-a-better-wooden-indian-than-the-real-thing to enter the race for the presidency. *heh* Talk about blogfodder.


Hey! Would someone please PROOFread my titles? All day long “proof” was typo-ed “proff”! (Thanks WW :-)) *heh*


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T-13, 1.45: 13 Things I Don’t Have Time for Today

Make that “13 Things I Don’t Have Time or Energy for Today”

1. Listening to (or reading) one more Mass Media Podperson or leftard idiot accuse fact-checkers of a Dim poster family of attacking a child. (Too many examples to cite.) Lame.

2. Cleaning my office mess. Nope. Not gonna happen today.

3. Lies, damned lies and “political realities” (that’s a progressive statement if ever there was one, with apologies to Twain/Disraeli, whomever… ).

4. Which (#3) also means pretty much anything found on network “news”. No time at all, at all for that nonesense today.

5. Rain. (Ya hear me? I don’t have time for that stuff today, OK?)

6. Slow-pays. Have a couple of clients who are in that boat. Lowering the boom. No time to listen to their excuses. Just wear me out more.

7. World Peace. Who needs it? I have enough problems of my own.

8. Blogroll-cruising. Finally one I’d like to have time for but…

9. The Boys. I’ll feed the dogs today, but roll-around-and-play just ain’t in the books.

10. The cats’ imperioous demands for attention. (I’m typing, Ms. Ruler of All You Survey! Get OFF my lap! *heh*)

11. Another cuppa joe, apparently. Nope. Always time for another cup of The Holy Brew (#1).

12. This post.

13. Life. Putting life on hold today. Too much to do on too little sleep.

Update: Perri Nelson linked in with a post describing The Caffeine Curve and… I accidentally nuked his trackback (because I’ve NOT HAD ENOUGH COFFEE TODAY!!!). Important information you need to know. Go. Read. Be enlightened!


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Dims Practice for New Olympic Event?

Note: I know very little about the financial situation of the latest Dim “poster family” for socialized medicine, though from what I can see up front, either I know a LOT more than the Dims did before selecting lil Graeme Frost to send to the front in their all-out assault on personal responsibility in attempt to make every American suck on the government teat, or the Dims are so assured that enough Americans are complete idiots that their selection really doesn’t matter. It’s all about the sizzle. Forget the damned steak!


Is Jumping the Shark scheduled to become an Olympic event? Dim bulbs within and around and about the leftist flank of the body politic must think so, since the whole left seems bound up in practicing for the event with the SCHIP Scam–once again parading a poorly-chosen mopsy as a poster child for socialized medicine.

Accused of “stalking” for doing due diligence that left-wingers find so offensive (“Who needs facts? We have our ideologies!” as it were :-)), Michelle Malkin has a brief roundup of the pertinent facts known (not ginned up faux facts) so far about the SCHIP poster family, as well as a very, very brief review of past leftist B.S. using poster children that weren’t.

Example: Anyone recall Jennifer Bush? Hillary’s much-ballyhooed poster child for Hillarycare? Yeh. That one.

Jennifer’s mother wrote a widely-publicized letter to the White House. “Do you know what it is like to choose between purchasing groceries for the week to feed your family or buying needed medications for your chronically ill child?” Kathleen Bush asked…. [In February 2000], Kathleen Bush – Hillary Clinton’s once-proud and loud sister in arms — was sentenced to five years in prison on two counts of aggravated child abuse and one count of fraud. She also pled guilty to a separate count of welfare fraud for misrepresenting $60,000 in assets on Medicaid forms. “There was probably more abuse in this single case,” lead prosecutor Bob Nichols noted, “than in all of the child-abuse cases I’ve prosecuted in my life combined.”

Another fine example of Dims’ “poster child” method of public persuasion.

So, when folks outside the mainstream of the Mass Media Podpeople Hivemind actually, well, look into the background of Dims’ poster children, they are doing what the media ought to have done to begin with: vet the legitimacy and relevance of the example being touted. If that’s “stalking” then I, for one, am all for it. Let me remind you once again,

“A society whose citizens refuse to see and investigate the facts, who refuse to believe that their government and their media will routinely lie to them and fabricate a reality contrary to verifiable facts, is a society that chooses and deserves the Police State Dictatorship it’s going to get.” — Ian Williams Goddard

What these accusers calling Malkin and others “stalkers” are really saying is, “Don’t question the Dims; don’t question Mass Media Podpeople or do the job they should be doing; just lap up whatever poison is spoonfed you. Anyone questioning the methods and/or goals of leftists, looking for facts, etc., is guilty of laesa maiestas–insult to the rulers.” (Except, of course, such accusers have no idea what the concept “laesa maiestas” is or whence it came about.)

I do not doubt that the Dims’ latest poster child was greviously harmed along with his sister in the car wreck that was the source of all the medical intervention that CHIP was used to pay for. I do ask where his parents’ car insurance was and why it apparently was insufficient to cover expenses. Cheap car insurance, maybe? Maryland is a “no fault” state, which pretty much means that regardless who caused the accident where Graeme and his sister were injured, the Frosts’ insurance would have been the primary payor in treating their injuries.*

Just wondering. Anyone “stalked” the Frosts long enough, deeply enough to know if they bothered to carry adequate insurance on their car(s), if not their children?

Regardless, absent any definitive data, at least some people outside the Mass Media Podpeople Hivemind and the Dims’ Olympic Jumping the Shark training pool are asking pertinent questions and seeking facts. I do NOT expect that ANY information will come to light that paints the Frosts as belonging to the despicable Kathleen Bush category. They seem, from the facts so far, to be of a much milder, more insidious variety of societal leech: making enough money to live well (and no, I don’t for a milisecond credence the “$45,000/year joint income”** claim. Smells like bullshit, but I’m willing to be persuaded by facts that I’m wrong), especially as long as they soak taxpayers for expenses most families budget for and handle on their own. Even families making “only” $45,000 per year (but willing to forgo the granite countertops in favor of something more suitable to responsible money management).

*DO NOTE: even in no fault states like Maryland, IF someone other than the Frosts had been at fault in the accident, THEN, given the extent of the children’s injuries, generally the at fault party could have been sued for damages. Not sure about Maryland law specifically, but that’s pretty much the general rule. Oops. I see from info all over the place, now, that it was a one-car wreck, apparently caused by Mommy driving too fast for the road conditions. Injuries to the two (out of three in the SUV) kids seem consistent with NO SEAT BELTS WORN. Hmmm, and I thought Maryland had a mandatory seat belt law…

Makes me wonder about the accident even more. Regardless, from the Frost-y response, it seems that Ma n Pa Frost do not accept any responsibility for the results of the accident… Though again, I could be persuaded by facts pointing to the contrary.

**Yeh, about that doubt… even with a full ride on the 2 children attending private school (which would amount to a $40,000 income boost-in-kind *heh*), the claimed $1,200/month mortgage payment (Bonnie Frost, claiming that’s how much health insurance would have cost them–as much as their $1,200/month mortgage) would place them way over the edge of qualifying for a loan, IF their income were $45,000/year. I’ve seen some DU-ers claim they bought the house in the 90s for $55,000, but that makes no sense if their mortgage payments are $1,200, unless they’ve tapped part of their equity. Still, living in a home that, according to property values on their street must be worth somewhere well north of $400,000 (not quite: see below), and owning a commercial property (with paying tenant) that was worth $160,000 back in the early 90s and a nice shiny SUV, they’d be tapped out just making payments and property taxes, etc., while buying basic groceries for a family of six. IF they were making only $45,000/year as they claim.

Addendum: Just “Zillowed” the address of their home. Zillow.com says it’s worth more than $360,000. Nice. If the cost of their home were truly what the Maryland Department of Assessments and Taxation, BALTIMORE CITY Real Property Data Search says, they’ve seen a $305,000 appreciation, at a minimum. Sizable equity. Along with the commercial property, assets upwards of $500,000. Not exactly a “needy” family, now are they?

Note that, “were truly what… ” above. Sweet deal. Property tax evals are consistently UNDER real market valuations in many cases (compare the 2007 property tax evals at the link above with the Zillow.com page). When it was purchased/transferred, the property tax evaluation was $145,680, yet it was purchased for $55,000. Nice. I wish I could get a sweet deal like that. Hmmm, I wonder what relationship–if any–existed between Thomas A Muth and F Halsey Frost, eh? (The $52,500 last-listed “transfer” was in 2005, “transferring” the property to F Halsey AND Bonnie Frost… for much, much, much less than market value–what’s that all about? Any real property lawyers wanna chime in? Did Halsey “sell” it to himself and his wife? For less than he paid for it 15 years previously? :-))

All matters of personal choice. Get a sweetheart insider’s deal on a home that appreciates 700% from your buying price. Maybe cash in some of the equity for a loan (hence the claimed $1,200/month mortgage?), buy other real property, own ones own business, rent property to others, claim only $45,000 (after all the neato-keano write-offs ones business can accumulate), send two of four (“Too bad you other two. You can just go to prison for kids with all the other losers.”) kids to private school, suck at the public teat instead of buying ones own insurance like responsible Americans.

Personal choices.

Here at America’s Third World County central, we drive safe, reliable used cars–no, no fancy SUVs– live in a modest 2,000 square foot home (counting the finished basement with bath and 2 BR) and pay for our own health insurance, thank you. No granite countertops or private schools, either. But then, we also don’t own rental property and have $300,000 or more in equity to play with (to borrow against for medical bills–or just to pay premiums while one adult gets a job that has insurance–or to sell and “move down” as responsible adults might do?).

All speculation from marshmallow factoids, but certainly more information than the Dims want folks to know. Just wondering what all the facts really are… But from what is known so far, the Dims really do look like they think Jumping the Shark is a new Olympic sport they should train for.

[The Zillow.com thing I found through a Google search. The Maryland records search I found a link to over in the discussion at Captains Quarters.]


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Spreading Subliteracy, One Article at a Time…

Two warring memes: “The Total Depravity of Man” and “The Only Infinite Resource is Human Stupidity”. One of the things I detest most about Mass Media Podpeople is that as a class they are either woefully subliterate or engaged in a conspiracy to dumb down their audience. Either view is supportable from the evidence. Here’s a relatively innocuous one. (“Relatively” only because it affects few people directly.)

Mr C’s 7 Signs That Your Kid May Be A Hacker

Yeh. Mass Media Podpeople even in low-brow fake techie mags.

Debasing the language is what Mass Media Podpeople do best, with outright lies, twisting of truths (into lies) and distortions by deliberate (or stupid) misuse of words, so that words repeated often enough take on meanings foreign to their etymology. Mass Media Podpeople of all stripes do it, as the cutsy eWeek slideshow linked above demonstrates. Hijacking–once again–“hacking” and using the term to refer to cracking. (See here for a decent treatment of the terms.)

I’m almost tempted to start a “Mass Media Podpeople most misused word of the week” feature. The drawback? How to choose a most misused word… Reader feedback, a poll or some such would probably help, but that’s kinda like, well, work (echoes of Maynard G. Krebs), and I’m just playing this game to mollify the voices in my head.


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Faux “Coffee Beer”

Nothing earth-shattering here. Just a lil drive-by post.

I have a couple of recipes for “coffee beers” based on porters and stouts (one with coffee added during the brewing, another with cracked coffee beans added at a different point in the brew cycle), but haven’t tried ’em out yet. So, in the interest of some preliminary exploration of a combination of two of my favorite things, for lunch (cheese sandwich and beer), I put a 2oz “shot” of cold coffee in a 6oz espresso cup and added 4oz of Groelsch.

Not bad, Really not bad at all.

Yep. I think I’ll try one of those recipes. Real. Soon. Now.

🙂


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SCHIP Scam

Let me once again remind you of the quote that currently resides in this blog’s header:

“A society whose citizens refuse to see and investigate the facts, who refuse to believe that their government and their media will routinely lie to them and fabricate a reality contrary to verifiable facts, is a society that chooses and deserves the Police State Dictatorship it’s going to get.” — Ian Williams Goddard

Now perhaps you won’t be quite so surprised by John Stephenson’s post, The “Not So Poor” 12 Year Old Voice of SCHIP, a roundup of reactions from various bloggers. John’s email blurb describing the nut of the post:

If you haven’t heard about this one yet, please share. 12 year old Graeme Frost of Maryland got to do the Democrats’ radio address, in which he told his story of how he and his sister were seriously injured in a car accident, and if it hadn’t been for SCHIP, they wouldn’t be here today. Turns out there is more to the story. First, Mr. Halsey Frost, Graeme’s father, owns his own woodworking design studio, Frostworks, so his claim that he can’t get health insurance through work is shockingly deceptive. He chooses not to get health care for his family. Second, Graeme and his sister Gemma attend the very exclusive Park School, which has a tuition of $20,000 a year, per child. Third, they live in a 3,000+ square foot home in a neighborhood with smaller homes that are selling for at least $400,000.

Re-read the Goddard quote, then read John’s post. Oh, and for some thoughtful analyses of some media hyped stories and conspiracy theories, check out Goddard’s site as well.


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Handy Tech-Geeky Reference

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Been spending a more than usual amount of time on the phone this week with “support” personnel whose technical competence is generally limited to reading glurge from a script. Oh, and I’ve been spending (far too much) time exchanging emails with supposed “Technical Specialists” who are incapable of (or unwilling to) reading and/or understanding the plain English in the emails I send them. (I have mentioned that I can recommend a good remedial reading course, but I have gotten no response to that either. :-))

So, as a nice lil break and a treat for myself, and perhaps you, if you’re inclined to a bit of geekiness, here’s a not-too-technical handy reference to

Standard Error Codes/Messages [WARNING! PDF file. Right-Click and choose “Download” or “Save Target” or whatever your browser gives you there to download and scan with your AV-scanner before opening.]

These error codes are for all manner of PCs, OSes, peripherals. Now, these aren’t error codes as returned by your OS when something crops up, but error/service codes that may (repeat may) help in communicating with technicians when problems crop up on your equipment. They already help me track diagnosis and repair issues on client equipment, and they also help me in communicating to narrow things down over the phone, avoiding some few onsite calls.

At the very least, they may help you “think like a tech” when facing issues on your own equipment. No, not like the “techs” at my (still, until I work out one kink in transferring this site) hosting-service-that-shall-not-be-named (but whose initials are “F-A-T-C-O-W”).

Another nice resource is this page, offering a handy set of links to major IT manufacturers’ support pages.


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The “Service Economy”–Ain’t

As a few folks have commented while commiserating with me via email about the crappy service I’ve been experiencing with my hosting service recently (the hosting service shall go unnamed, but its initials are F-a-t-c-o-w) to the effect that, as one person put it, “Seems there’s no such thing as ‘customer service’ in any realm, anymore.”

Well, duh.

🙂

What my hosting-service-that-shall-not-be-named substitutes for customer service is front end “warm voices” that can effect no substantive changes themselves but are merely “cover” allowing crappy service to continue on the back end.

See my post here for the scant info I had up earlier today at a WordPress.com blog where I had to redirect my domain because of stupid,irresponsible, dumbass actions taken by the hosting-service-that-shall-not-be-named (with the initials, “F-a-t-c-o-w”).

All along, I’ve been able to talk to warm personalities who promise to “do all I can” to rectify the situation (but who, when pressed, admit they can do nothing). Meanwhile, I get emails from people claiming to be “Technical Specialists” indicating

a. They have not read the trouble ticket
b. They have not read my email answers to their queries/emails
c. They are idiots simply playing CYA games.

And the backend problems caused by the hosting-service-that-shall-not-be-named (with the initials, “F-a-t-c-o-w”) continue.

BAck last January, I switched this blog from a hosting account generously provided by a benefactor to the hosting account I’m using now. The old hosting account was on Fatcow, so methought, “Hmm, should be easiest to just get my own hosting account with the same service and switch it over.”

Wrong. Those of y’all who were around then may recall that it took a week for the backend guys to stop screwing around.

*sigh*

Let’s see if this posts. If it does, maybe I’ll continue to be hosted on hosting-service-that-shall-not-be-named (with the initials, “F-a-t-c-o-w”)… for about a week or so more.

When things settle down, I’ll get back to regular curmudgeonry.

Oh! The latest offer from hosting-service-that-shall-not-be-named (with the initials, “F-a-t-c-o-w”) was to restore the data NUKED by some idiot techie–material destroyed from Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday.

Of course, when (IF) they actually do that, they’ll destroy everything (you can bet on it!) that’s come in since that conversation… and more.

Bet on it.

Idiots.

[pre-posting update: I had just finished this post and was ready to CLICK “Publish” when… yep. “Error establishing a database connection”. Yep, the hosting-service-that-shall-not-be-named (with the initials, “F-a-t-c-o-w”) has still not done anything useful to correct the problems caused by its server “upgrades”. Took a 30 minute wait, with multiple tries reloading, to get back this far. WTG, hosting-service-that-shall-not-be-named (with the initials, “F-a-t-c-o-w”)!]

OTOH, there are a few companies left that combine at least minimal competence and customer service. One of my broadband company’s nodes went down, affecting my service yesterday. I called. Was told, “We’re working on it,” and… they were. Back in service within 30 minutes. There are a few companies like that. A few.

UPDATE: As I predicted to the so-called “level 2 tech” last night, the hosting-service-that-shall-not-be-named (with the initials, “F-a-t-c-o-w”) has managed to completely misunderstand simple English (or is simply being obtuse). Instead of doing the impossible, as promised, and resoring the days nuked by incompetent “techies” the so-called “Technical Specialists” have struck again: “I have restored the site from snapshot four days back, i.e. 28th September 07”. Naturally the “Technical Specialist” did not restore the missing post and other data that another “Technical Specialist” had destroyed. Cos it was GONE.

Dumbasses.


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Techie News

Ever have to do a repair install of WinXP? Often–in the past–if WinXP became unbootable, simply popping in a (genuine!) WinXP install CD and doing a repair install would solve the problem.

Not so, now. Microsoft, in its inscrutable campaign to become the most-hated software manufacturer on the planet, has made a repair install of XP much more difficult. Oh, the repair install will still work, but unless you have the lil tip below, you’ll be stuck with the “pristine” install of the OS exactly as it came on the install CD, with all the security holes and gaps still present, all the bugstomps and patches since the CD was pressed… unavailable.

Because Windows Update will fail, reporting only “a problem on your system”.

Nice going Me$$y$oft.

As it turns out, according to a report by Windows Secrets‘ Scott Dunn, attempting to update WinXP after a repair install will fail because some of the dlls in the most recent WU utility will not properly register on such an installation. The fix requires first installing the old WU installer (found here), using the command line and the /wuforce switch, and then attempting a Windows update. The new WU installer will then register its dlls properly and all will be as well with the WinXP install as can be with a WindowsXP install. (Meaning, so-so to headache after headache *heh*)

Until Me$$y$oift fixes its WU installer, better have the OLD WU installer in your back pocket just in case. ‘K?

(Yeh, yeh: you can manually register each of the WU installer dlls, instead–or write a batch file to do it–but unless you’re looking at a ton of repair installs, just having the old WU installer will work easily enough. Just (RIGHT-CLICK to) download wuinstaller_fix.txt and rename with a “bat” extension if you prefer a dll-registration approach.)