Zemanta Posting

This is a post that is being written with Zemanta's firefox extension. There is a small brown window next to the Blogger.com composition window. It has done nothing yet. Could it be that this is Firefox 3.04b? So far FF refuses to install an extension that won't work with it. It did allow Zementa to install.

Oh, well.

We'll leave it and see if it works later on.

Short Thwirl Tips

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When you hit the icon to the right of the remarks window, above the check mark, it brings up a window where you copy your long URL.   The first choice is snurl.com

If you click on the down arrow next to the box it offers a second choice, is.gd, five characters shorter.

Also, to see more tweets, the voice balloon to the left of the Timeline menu to the left of the remarks box, removes and returns the remarks box.

If you intend to reply, click on the @name in the tweet, it will open a new view with just the tweet from the person to whom you want to send your message.  It makes it easier to write directly to them.

Just a few short remarks.

Chat Rooms Rot the Brain

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I never really saw the appeal of chat rooms. I was watching Jason Calacanis run a podcast on his site with with a chat running below. You had to register at UStream.tv to get into the chat. My normal sign-in there wasn’t working, so I created an alias.

With that alias I was able to get in to the chat. Near the end, Jason was so absorbed in reading the chat, or his feed, or conducting business, that he just sat there, humming to himself. I asked him to sing something. Some of the other chatters became a touch nasty, making Chris Pirillo remarks.

So, though Jason can be interesting when part of a discussion, as on TWiT, I don’t think I will go back to the Jason Nation anytime soon to watch him Plog.

Sorry, Hit The wall with nothing in the graze bin. Here's another Wikimedia.org picture

Wikimedia Commons

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Sunny and in the mid to low 40’s

That was the weather report today.  I optimistically rolled down the window while stuck in the left lane of the Interstate.  NPR was telling me about, wait, I don’t remember.  Driving in traffic can be so mind numbing.  I know they were telling me about Iraq and Afghanistan, this crisis and that crisis and how the government is either screwing it up or, no sorry, no or.

Now I remember, it was about the Supreme Court and some of the surprising questions the Justices were asking the nattily dressed Attorney General and how nervous he was.  How pithy.

Back to grazing.

Spring Break Graze

Everywhere I turn around I see, or hear Amber MacArthur. commandN.tv

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is a must see online. She was on  Other than seeing her on Tech TV or hearing her with Leo Laporte, I realized I knew little about her.  Leo Laporte mentioned he would be on PlayCafe.com this evening.  I tuned in and there was Amber MacArthur.  This is one very connected woman. 

I Googled  her for the first time and found an eye opening Digital Journal interview where she wasn’t smiling or perky.  If you want to see the serious side of this very professional woman, go to this link to the Digital Journal interview.

@scobleizer was looking for a place to eat in NYC.  I sent him this link to a news about Typhoid Fever in NYC Restaurants.   He has a right to know.  This is from Digital Journal.

Speaking of Twitter, the T word on TWiT, (not related), this is a very informative article on the use of Twitter in Blogging from ProBlogger.  As with many other blogs, don’t forget to read the comments.  I learn more from the comments most of the time.

I’ve used several methods for text substituting going back to writing .bat files in DOS.  This little program, written by Adam Pash is described in a video on Lifehacker

Once you have it installed, follow this continuing link to an article, also at Lifehacker, on how to Save Time with  Text Substitution.

Last link for the night is to SyncBack (free version.)  Read the page, it will explain it to you.  I have hit the wall.

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Careful When Writing inScribefire with FF 3.04b

I was writing an inane blog entry regarding the 38 Firefox Add-ons that I deleted when upgrading to the Firefox beta version 3.04b when the browser crashed.; I was simultaneously deleting Add-ons as I wrote the piece. When I deleted the ZOHO Firefox Reader Add-on BAM, to the Floor.

It is good to note that Scibefire is working just fine. It seems to be drawing a line above the line I am typing right now. Will this show up in the blog entry? Only one way to find out.


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Why Watch/Listen to Twit?

The primary reason is Leo LaPorte’s voice, when he is not imitating the chairman of the Democratic Party’s suicidal scream, his voice is a naturally  soothing influence.  I am not kidding.  He said I should subscribe to Audible Dot Com if I have an Amazon Kindle. 

I have a Kindle and now two spoken books loaded onto it.  As soon as I figure out how to get them to play on my car’s speaker I will be a happy man.

The next reason is the Yang to the Ying of Leo’s Voice; John C. Dvorak.  I was first exposed to him when magazines where the primary source of material for budding geeks in the early ‘80’s.  Now Ziff Davis is going into Chapter 11.  The Buggy Whip Principle strikes again.
 
Another reason is that I miss Tech TV, where Leo Reigned Supreme when it was out of SoMa in San Francisco.

Tech TV in California is another example of the BWS.  They tried to be too smart, too hip, when their primary audience were still wearing pocket protectors.  Not to protect their protractors and slide rules, but their iPhones and Blackberrys

Back to Twit...  One other reason is that everyone who appears/speaks on the podcast has a web presence of their own.  @JasonCalacanis promised to Tweet the notice about the Audible.com free read offer coming up on Twitter and, bam, while I was still watching the live feed, and following @wilharris, Calacanis was true to his word.

(Calacanis is a name I will not forget.  If you combine the Greek for good, Kala and the Latin for dog, canis, you get Good Dog!  If that’s his stage name, it is very clever.)

Getting links to their blogs and websites and adding them to my RSS feed gives me more and more up to the minute information for the nightly grazes that appear here.  And now that  @davewiner has been added to the Tweets I follow, as well as the various news station feeds, I will have more information to start building the identity of Grazing Press.

Lastly is that I learned the perfect expletive there during TWiT #134: Bullfish! 

I love it.

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TWiT Live - Watch Leo Laporte Laugh!

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I installed the Firefox 3.### Portable to watch TWiT live stream.  It went right to the page and started playing the feed.  There are no add-ons. In FF 2.## I have at least four maybe five add ons to allow video playing.

It seems to be a raw version of the show’s production.  I came in half way through the show, so I will listen to the first half when it comes up on TWiT.tv .  In my imagination, prior to seeing this stream, I had all of the participants  sitting around in stuffed chairs at a tavern in Corte Madera. 

As soon as the stream is over, I’ll play with the portable Firefox.  I did look at the Add-ons in tools.  There is a row of uninstalled, with the green field exclamation but none of them are loaded.

One of my problems with this broadcast is the way they are making fun of the Blogger Bob, a poor government employee hired to make sense of insensibility.   Their laughter sounded like mocking laughter.  It matters little to source or the reason for mocking, wherever it occurs it is painful to hear.

A Focus for Grazing Press

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Until now we have used Grazing Press as a backup for the Belltowernews.com blog.  This started during the Blogger.com reorganization into the Googlesphere.  Because we had an extremely configured blog that did not comply with the laws set down by the new masters, Belltowernews.com was down for a few months.

So as not to be off the grid entirely, we published here.  Now that Belltowernews has its own domain and seems to have stabilized, we plan to return this blog back to it original intent, to comment on the news.

We were inspired to get around to do doing this by a recent Twitter comment made by Dave Winer on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees blog.

It had given me pause for thought to believe man who presents himself as an open thinker as Mr. Obama would subscribe to mentoring from a man who has been profiled by the common press as something close to a monster.  In reading the above mentioned piece I saw an entirely different slant to the purpose of his sermon.

So, this blog will now be devoted to commenting on the three to four hundred news hits in my Google Reader each morning.  It will not focus on politics, celebrity, money or yellow journalism, but on what I personally think is a story of some interest.

Don’t expect there to be any great number of blog entries in the near future.  There are six other Famous Grazing Blogs up that too are seeking a focus away from Belltowernews.  Let us bring the sheep into the pasture and see on which plants they feed.

Easy Userbar Creator Found

An easy to use program for the creation of userbars all the way from Australia produced this userbar

in about ten minutes.

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Graphic and Interactive Twitter Signatures for Blog and Email Posting

Going to twitsig.com will let you generate the image above. This is the static image, that displays the Twitter entry when it is created.

This image should change as I change my Twitter entries:

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Easter Conundrum

There is an organized Easter Egg Hunt in the village grave yard this morning.

My family is in the country. The question for me is, do I go? Or do I go back to sleep? My BB woke me up with its 0655 find me alarm that helps me find it before leaving for work. I set it for the weekend ON this week because I was working yesterday.

If I complain about there being too many things to turn on and off, the part of my brain that follows through complains immediately that I should be grateful for having so many things. Ying and Friggin' Yang again!!!

Saturday Sweep

It is a goal for this evening to sweep the Read-it-Later folder of all its content and share those pages worth review with you.

We got a kindle for the winter holiday.  It took 70 days after receiving the gift coupon for the real thing to arrive.  If you blog down in Belltowernews.com you will see where exasperation was expressed.

On Lifehacker there is this article on "How the Kindle Saves You Time..."  it is a almost thorough explanation of Kindle uses for the man on the street.  One feature it doesn't mention is the ability to quickly download samples of the books.  Most of the samples consist of the prologue/introduction and the first chapter. 

Of the five or six samples I've downloaded so far, I have ordered two.  The great thing is you get to the last page of the sample and you are offered the book at the discounted Kindle price.  It is almost too easy.  Impulse can rule.  You tap on the button with the rolling wheel mouse-like control and before you can blink, the book is on your Kindle.  Uber-browsing.

Though the title of this page on RWW touts only Ten Sites for Finding Wonderful Things if you scroll down into the comments, you will find more that twenty other links of interest.    One entry has a list of openculture.com sites of interest including this one on open source audio-books.

The MIT presence on tube can be found at the amazingly uncomplicated http://youtube.com/mit 

The other YouTube link for the evening is run by Guardian TV.  This is a good place to visit the Cheese Diaries: http://uk.youtube.com/user/GuardianUnlimitedTV 

Back to Lifehacker for a link to the Eight Worst Foods in America.  Of course I ate the first thing on the list at a highway rest stop on the Massachusetts Turnpike.  It looked healthy???

I lust after this item.

This is what we're going to play with after posting this graze.  It's called Brief and touts itself as a streamlined feed reader extension for Firefox.  We didn't have much luck with the mail reader last night.  Wish us luck.

 

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Memes?

I was just reading Leo Laporte's comments on Leoville regarding Twit 134.; I haven't had a chance to listen to it, and won't before I come back from work.

What I wanted to remark about was the word memes.

The Merriam-Webster OnLine site has it listed as a noun to mean "an idea, behavior, style, or usage that spreads from person to person within a culture." It is now being used all over the place in geekspeak.

It Didn't Work. I Was Surprised.

eM Client just didn't work. All of the settings were correct but I could not get it to interact with gmail IMAP. I stayed up way too late trying. There is just too much to test for something not to work with the correct settings.

But, only went through half of the playlist on Finetune Desktop. It was playing a long piece from the Broadway cast of West Side Story.


I did also stay up late to see the latest chapter in the commandN saga. New studio, what we see of it, and Jeff is feeling better.

Spring Evening Graze.

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You wouldn't know it is Spring out there, mostly because it is so dark, but the wind was doing its March roaring a little late in the month.  It does feel odd to have your car blown sideways while you are going so fast forward.  Not thrilling so much as disconcerting.

The first link is first because I love the title.  It is from MakeUseOf and is called 8 Adobe AIR Apps that DON'T Suck.  I already use Thwirl. I activated a spare monitor to keep Thwirl up while working on the laptop screen.  The one application on this page that I just had to install right away is Finetune Desktop. 

Click on Finetune first to sign up for the free service and then click on Desktop.  It takes a little less than no time to set the app up.  It takes a little longer to create the playlist on line.  I got as far as six songs before hitting the button.  That added 38 songs to the playlist.  So far, so good.

The next link is to Book Lamp.  They say clearly once you register that this is a beta, will probably always be, but what the hey, by the time they bring it down you should have a book list long enough for several summers.  Being a Kindle owner, perhaps several lives. (Added memory chip!!!)

Though  devoted as much as possible to Thunderbird, I have downloaded eM Client to see if all of the hype is true.  Who knows..  Whoa!! 

Reading the blog it says to wait until the version being issued after Eastertime.  That's the day after tomorrow, or tomorrow in five minutes.  I can wait... maybe.

Here's a YouTube on how to quickly start up a Blogger Blog.

And here is Twitter in Plain English on the Common Craft Show

Bed time.  There would be more links, but I kept installing each of the links above.  That takes time.  Oh bother!!!

Just Some Thinking on Information Tidal Wave.

There was a time, not that long ago, when I received all of my information on the world by reading the Times in the morning and listening to the radio on the way home. Two or three times a week I would watch the evening news. Later on I became more sophisticated, (I thought), by subscribing to the IHT and the Manchester Guardian.

Then came CNN.

There was "all news all the time" radio, but that handled traffic, sports, weather and late-night commentary. These were the things about which we felt the value in the immediacy of the information. But CNN, even with its early Atlantan accent, was a new, visual window on the world. It's raw feeds of breaking news was a new feeling.

The information junkie got his first taste...

Now, I am writing on ScribeFire, listening to ZZTop on WinAmp, monitoring my BB while writing a blog entry on a Firefox extension. I am also monitoring Tweeter on Thwirl displayed on the second computer screen. This isn't mult-tasking. This is shooting up information.

Is the sun shining???

Qiking from car.. Wait for the law

When Kevin Rose said he was streaming live from his car it did cause a moment's pause, but it was from the roof of the parking garage at SFO. (Whew!)

MediaShift Explained

The picture shown below is from a old but still informative article on the PBS MedaShift page that explains blogging.

It is very clearly written and intended not for the complete novice to computing, but for one who wants to learn the basics and the reasoning behind this phenomena

Don't limit yourself to this one article, Mark Glaser's style on other topics of interest are worth reading as well.

Image Found at MEDIASHIFT

Mediashift on PBS - Twitter

Just a quick link to an article on PBS Mediashift on Twitter.

If you're just getting into it, or wonder why you should, this is a good place to start.

There are links in this article that will help even the experienced user find unknown uses and aspects of this simple 140 character graffiti.

Ton of Stuff in my Read-It-Later

Over the past few days I haven't been posting too many links.  This doesn't mean I haven't been saving them.  They are sitting in my Read-It-Later link on the Firefox tool bar.  Now is the time to scan through them and see if any are worthy of sharing.

It goes without saying that commandN is worth a look.  Brother Jeff has a wicked cold.  In the comments section @Amber also states one of the other members of the crew is stricken as well.

Google Calendar Sync at Google Agenda (beta) worked quite well for me.  Now when I put an entry into my Blackberry, it automatically appears in the Google Calendar.  I have the calendar set to send me my daily agenda at 0545.  Now that it is synced into my Blackberry, these agendas are more meaningful to me.

If you use Calgoo, it carries over into that, through Google Calendar.  Cool.

Make Use Of has a handy-dandy list of sites and programs to make use of the IM format.  According to Leo LaPorte, his children no longer use IM in favor of SKS.

The IHT has a review, and short biography.  It is about Lush Life and its author, Richard Price.  If you have never read any of his work, or seen it in movies, and you have an interest in things New York, (gritty) you may want to read this article and then go ahead and get the book.

The next RIL, (short for Read-It-Later) was an article on Laughing Squid about the visit to the Colbert Report by Mark Frauenfelder. (See SXSW twitters).  That link is of much less interest than this one of photos taken at the set of the CR, while waiting from Mark.

Hulu has come out of beta.  I have been using it for the past few weeks. The public interface is a lot more on the WOW side than the one with which the beta testers were presented.  I suppose they were of the opinion that beta testers require no sales pitch.  If you haven't visited yet, and love TV, it's is certainly worth the effort. 

The old Barney Millers ware a blast from the past.

I have no idea why I saved this Stumbleupon link.  Feel free to comment and tell me why.

Lindsay Lohan made a bit of a wave emulating Marilyn Monroe's final sitting.  This link takes you to a gallery online selling the actual of photos of MM for that sitting.  It is sad to see these photos for those of us who remember the day she died.

On My Newton's Blog is this recommendation of the Nikon Camera I have been using since our trip to the Inside Passage.

Lifehacker has this article on FriendFeed.  If you read the Twitter's displayed on the right column of Belltowernews.com you will see that we just revised our FaceBook and MyPlace pages and added a FriendFeed page this morning.

I am not sure why Lexisum is useful, but for those who like summaries, instead of the full boat, this interface to Wikipedia may be of some small use.  Personally I am an information  junkie who would not want to leave the summarizing to this page's discretion.

There was a link at Firefox Mastery regarding a list of configuration changes you can make to Firefox.  In one of the comments to the list a user asks why this list was copied over from gHacks.  You can find the tips in their pristine status at the gHacks Firefox Tips page.

Prophylactic is how the word is spelled.  This "social media aggregator/lifestreaming service" spells it Profilactic.  I wonder if that was on purpose or for URL availability.  As usual, when we find places like this, we try it.

Arthur C. Clark's NYT Obit.  RIP

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Night Watch Graze

Listening to Twit 37.

The first link mentioned was to Mahalo.com. I took a quick look at the site, signed in and browsed about. Dvorak's zipper antics were slightly funny. Dvorak is claiming the C.I.A. is running Facebook. To be correct, he's saying that the inteviews at SXSW regarding Facebook should have asked if it was being run by that agency. It is amazing how rumors start.

Interesting image of a battleship with a blimp and biplane as part of the infrastructure.
Just installed Silverlight. As with most things I am not sure what to do with it. The same thing for the latest Adobe .NET background

This was one of the better TWiT's. Dvorak was relatively low key, answers about Twitter questions, Facebook, Friendfeed and Silverlight.

Time to go play with that with which we were exposed this night.

We're back

Back on Terra Firma. It's just that we overslept by forty minutes. The sleep was probably theraputic, but now the ensuing panic probably is not.
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Boarding Jet Plane

We are all about to leave for the airport. I just wanted to note we linked Belltower News to Twitterfeed.
We got the idea from seeing the TWiT podcasts post announcement. When you look at a tweet, as they are called, to the lower right of the box containing the message you may see a link.
Many of our links have Twhirl next to them.

Off we go into the wild blue yonder.

Short Graze.

Early next morning I have to attend a sad event. We won't be back until Tuesday. I will Twitter while there, but don't expect any grazings.

The first page we plan to delete soon is the Ten Tips for Picasa There wasn't really any thing on there I didn't know already.

Nothing new on the Stephen Fry Podcast. I was hoping for something by him to hear during the long trip.

During all of this we're listen to Net at Night. Amber just told why she ran a marathon four years ago. It was the most intimate thing I have heard from her. Leo is trying to lure her to Petaluma. Sounds a little like a dirty old man. I wonder if he knows that. Probably not.

The free download today was hot notes. It looks like more of the same, but you may have some use for it.

If you use Pidgin, here are some extensions to broaden your use of it.

Leo is now talking to the abbreviated guest tell about his book How to How to Make Webcomics. You can get it at ImageComics

One more READ-IT-LATER link and then it's off to bed... Hmmmm...

I might have mentioned it before, but this is timely, while away, I will be using m.twitter.com to make the entries via Blackberry. Good site to use.

Not having a Stephen Fry to lull me to LaLa, here is a link to a windy article in the NYT by Laura M. Holson regarding text messaging and how it is "shaping" teenagers.

What a dork!!

Night Time Graze, finally

While putting together this nightly, somewhat, grade, I am listening on lone to Stephen Fry's Podcast.  The point he is trying to make is a verification of the River Phoenix line regarding classical music. "You can't dance to Beethoven."

Mentioned in one of the Twitter messages from SxSW is this link to 20 Websites That Made Me a Better Web Developer at Six Revisions.  There are many comments that go along with this list.

Another, entirely scientific, by British standards is this list of the 50 most influential blogs.  Be aware this list was compiled by the British website  for the Guardian Newspaper.  I used to get the Manchester Guardian delivered to my door when Malcolm Muggeridge wrote for them.

Wanting a desktop feature to cover Twitter, now that I am addicted to it, I found Thwirl.  It says it simultaneously put your Tweets into Pownce and Jaiku.  I set up the information into it, but haven't seen the reproduction into each of these other miniblog online.

Not being fond of Outlook or its mother ship, I was pleased to find this link that syncs the Google Calendar to the Blackberry.  It took no brain energy to set it up.  It now works very well.  Less work for mother.

Now for one more cute link before toddling off to bed. 

This is a Boing-Boing link displaying a Corning Glass Museum piece about the Prince Rupert Drop.  I don't know why I found this so fascinating, but I did. 

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This was taken at Baker Beach in the Early 80's
Joe is sitting to the right of Jen with Guinn sitting
to her left.

This just needed to get published on the web.

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Wrapped in Configuration Land

We have a graze list from last night but, due to Leo's recommendation re: Audible.com, we spent the time we would have used to load the graze loading books onto the Kindle. Now the sun is rising and it's off to see the Man.
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Can't wait for tonight's Graze - Try Twhirl!!

I have very recently installed the AIR Twitter/Pownce/Jaiku application THWIRL. If you Twitter, or Pownce or Jaiku, or all three, this is your application. Requires Adobe AIR.

23 Hour Graze.

Why do they have to steal the hour from the Weekend!!??  The law should be changed to take the hour off of Wednesday and, with the next change, add one hour to the weekend. Think of how happy that would make everyone, except those who work the graveyard shift...then...there is always the overtime.

The first Graze of the evening is for my novel-writing friend.  This is a list of the 50 Tools to help you write. The obvious question to me: while you are reading all of these lists, you're not writing, are you?  Therapy?  Works for me!

We have another time warning.  The Urban Dictionary, where we went to look up Intertubes.  

It is one of those sites where, if you start clicking on links, you will fall down into the rabbit hole and not be seen again for days.  Consider yourself warned.  Being wide open to words on the Internet, there are also some silly naughty bits here.  Second warning.

We tried to sign up for Plaxo using our OpenID. 

All looked well, filled in the forms, got the confirming ID, but, after hitting the link, it said we didn't provide the proper information...no, wait!  On refresh it loaded!!!  Be back in a few moments...

Whoo!  In the last hour I installed Plaxo and Pownce AIR. It was the hour of the I'M tools beginning with P. 

Twitter still seems simpler.

Back to Grazing... Torchwood Spoiler: Dead Man Walking

There is a lot of chatter, twitter entries and blog photos of interactive beer parties all over the Internet today.  This graphic by Sunni Brown seems to sum it all up.

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In Bellingham, WA, try Instant Replays!!

Instant Replays under new ownership

A local consignment shop now has new owners.

Heather Saulsbury bought Instant Replays of Bellingham, located at 2701 Northwest Ave., in January.

“I thought it would be fun,” she said. “I’ve been a consignment shopper my entire life.”

The consignment shop has been in Bellingham for nine years and has more than 800 regular consigners.

The store accepts every type of clothing, from infant to adult sizes. When she’s not running the shop, Saulsbury also runs a Web site, www.gwynnsgifts.com, where she sells handmade earrings and greeting cards. For more information, call 360 647-8327.

First a Comment, then the Graze of the Night Missing One Hour...

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Two comments to be truthful. The first is never to give up on TechSupport. After speaking to five other buck passers, I finally got Kevin at Sprint Tech support. He said, after I described the problem once again, "I see what is wrong." You cannot imagine how relieved I was hear this. Bless Kevin's little heart!!!

The second comment, which really is a Graze, surrounds the comment made by Chris, The Book Swede, about reading so many books he forgets most of the characters.

Here is where we differ radically. I read three to four books a week, (KINDLE!!!).

I would say I remember the characters, their names and life stories, better than that of the people I meet on a daily basis. The people who we meet don't grace us with their thoughts or have backgrounds built by The Author to support their actions. So, it is the live people I am more likely to forget.

The tribute to Gary Gygax doesn't mention his name, but if you don't get it, you either are not the parent of a pre-teen, or haven't been one in the second half of the twentieth century.

Unexpected Blackberry email glitch took up the rest of the evening.

commandN # 125 is up.

This is just a quick note to say that commandN # 125 is posted.

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Twitter Firefox plugin "Post to Twitter"

You have to read the comments on the Post to Twitter page down to comment number 22 to get a clear idea as to how to install it. They confuse things by using the word "download." I searched that page for a link. No link.
Then I settled down and read the comments.
While you have that page open in your firefox, and scripts allowed, go up to the search bar, click the down arrow. All the way at the bottom, above "Manage Search Engines" you will see Add "Post to Twitter"
Click on that and the choice will be added to your list of search engines.
Here is a copy of the illustration in comment number 22:

Also, make sure you are signed in to your twitter page in one of your tabs.

Sundown Graze

If you are a fan of Cali Lewis, her Flickr page may be of some interest.  If you aren't a fan, on what planet do you reside??

I just went through 55 Boing-Boing  RSS feeds and found nothing worth linking to this evening.
This applies, oddly enough to Lifehacker as well. 

There was a piece saying the product Airborne Cold prevent-er was really crap. I knew that already, but wasn't sure on the veracity of the reports source, so, no link.

Twitter in Plain English somewhat explains the way Twitter works.  I just haven't figured out how to add URL's to it yet.  Give me time, I will.  I know I can post a URL naked, but I want to make it as a link, the way we do on this blog.  I looked into the hash mark (#) linking, but that's not what I want right now.

Windows Fanatics has a message about the Top 5 Music Web Sites. I have been to each of the sites listed.  My favorite is AccuRadio . LastFM starts when I start MediaMonkey.  Pandora puts you on a Junk Mail List and is very annoying for that reason alone.

There is a lot of traffic about the Google Calendar synch with Outlook.  But the Robert Scoble is asking why aren't you using Plaxo?

Switched from AccuRadio to Net@Night. 

Here's a surprise: Ziff Davis applies for bankruptcy. (New York Times)

If you use Picasa here are 10 tips to improve your photos.

The conversation on Net@Nite is covering a site called DropIO.  I just set up an account there.  I think this will be of great us to us.

Goodbye Chef Irvine.

LiveJournal Tags: RSS Grazing,Laporte

Not tonight, Josephine!

Too tired to browse and therefor too tired to do just about anything...=30=

March Night Graze

I thought I would listen to the latest net and night with Amber MacArthur and Leo Laporte.  I expected geek talk. 

Amber mentioned a YouTube video with Jimmy Kimmel and Ben Afflect declaring their love for each other. It is genuinely funny.  The Sara Silverman video that lead to the creation of this video is not as funny, more vulgar.

Though we're not sure we'll use it much, we installed Pidgin after reading this Lifehacker page.

It is very hard to go read my RSS pages while listening to Leo and Amber because they are going over and over about this and that link.  I need to pause the show to get his page finished.  DISTRACTION!!!

This Lifehacker page listing 157 of PC Magazines favorite something or other is not worth going to for the link to PC Magazine, but to read the ranting of the commentary trashing PC Magazine.  Whoa!  I thought most of this sort of ranting was preserved for Microsoft and the Royal Family.

If you haven't read Neil Gaiman's American Gods, this is the last time I am putting up this link because the free on-line version will not be up that much longer.  I love this book and have three copies of it.  One to keep and two to lend out to friends.

I thought I would post the page on Speedwords, but found it boring.  Google it if your are interested.

If this article was available to me months ago it would have been easier for me to settle down to the two blog writers I use most, Scribefire and Windows Live Writer.

Again, as with most pages like this, read the comments. w::bloggar is mentioned.  I think that was my first blog writer.

Quick Links before bed.

Ashampoo Clipfinder

Those Inexplicable Traffic Jams

Free Starter Kit Give Away from Seventh Generation

Say Goodnight Gracie!

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This is bighugelabs.com writer. They say this can go straight to the blog. Let's see if it does.

Short Evening Graze

As I sit here listening to the Tech Guy from 2-24-08 cover on-line addiction, I have added Twitter Remarks to the sidebar of Belltowernews.com. I still don't quite get Twitter, but I feel I will use it more now that it is on Belltowernews. The same additions are made with the Google Reader link right above the Twitter Remarks.

Matt Richtel spoke to Leo About his book Hooked. I went to Kindle on Amazon.com and downloaded the sample. I have feeling I might buy the entire book. This is the good feature of the Kindle. You can download the introduction and first chapter and then decide if you want to buy the entire book. I consider it virtual browsing.

The first item on the graze list is the Lifehacker article on synching the workflow twixt Picasa and Flickr.

Lifehack.org, not to be confused with Lifehacker.com had an article on how to find anyone on-line. It isn't about searching for a particular person but about finding someone of the type with whom you may want to communicate.

A second link to Lifehack.org has to tips about the most effective way to use email. You may think you are savvy about email, but reading this short article may surprise you.

Here is a good one. A person who had may job two holders ago saved a lot of files in the wps format. To open them I went to an older compute with MS Works installed. Here is a link to the eHow site on the easy way to convert the .wps file to .doc files.

Another recommendation from the Tech Guy podcast is the program Audacity for recording single microphone podcasts.

An add aside: I am not sure what combination of keys I just hit, but for some reason Dreamweaver just started up and loaded downloading.php. How Odd!

The last link for the evening is to this photo of Babe Ruth in a Boston Red Sox Uniform taken in 1919, before the curse of the Bambino.

Good Night!

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Evening Graze

The first link listed by a newly added feed, Laughing Squid in San Francisco is about San Francisco Liberation Radio.  I thought it might be insightful, interesting or at the very least funny. It was self important, attention getting and raided by a government agency.  What fun. -S-

Laughing Squid has been sited by several of the more sophisticated on-line commentators. We won't give it the hook just yet.  Tick-tick

The DownloadSquad displayed a systems utility to transform the PrntScrn button to actually print the screen rather than copying the screen to the clipboard.

In the comments section of the program's page, there is a comment touting another program called Gadwin System.  I have never heard of it but its home page is open and will look deeper into it later.

I saved a few news pieces to read about the coming war in South America. It would appear we have a few macho men just itching for a fight.  Sound familiar? I won't bother posting links because this is an ongoing situation and the content will be ever changing.

Freeware Files displayed a 1.3 version of Able RAWer.  This is a graphic handler for RAW files to be downloaded directly from the camera.  I currently use Picasa for this.  The interesting thing is there was an ad for Picasa running on this page.

I am not sure why I saved the link to WordPress, but it was on my list, so, go start yourself a blog.  Enjoy!

If you're interested in the show on BBC called Torchwood, this article from TV Squad will tell you more than you want to know prior to seeing the show.  If you have seen it, reading this article may give you insight into the motivation for this episode's creation.  This does rate a SPOILER ALERT!!

IMAP pros and cons from downloadsquad.

Daily Blog Tips is an interesting page if you blog.

The last link was to a song called Cake.  Unfortunately my script blocker on Firefox displayed a half dozen blocked scripts that would have to be activated to hear the song.  One, maybe as many as three scripts I can understand.  When the number gets higher than that, the page writer is up to something.

That's the evening graze.  If we stay up late, which we rarely do on a Sunday night, we may post one more today. 

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Morning Graze From Google Reader

From MakeUseOf.com is this link to an entry on Windows screen Docks.   It is a very thorough listing.  I am not a fan of screen docks because I make most use of the Quick Launch tool bar in Windows XP.  But for those who like bells and whistles, docks are good.

If you're looking for some interesting feeds to add to the feed-reader you use, the downloadsquad site as a huge number of RSS tags on a broad set of platforms and on-line applications.

I picked three of the hundreds of available feeds.  I know this will bite me if  we abandon the reader for a day or two. 

We've been mystified by Twitter for quite a while.  Perhaps this link to Webware's article Newbie's Guide to Twitter will help.

This Shorpy.com  photograph of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh taken in 1929, four months after they were married, is a marvel in the detail of their features as well as the airplane in front of which they are standing.  The blurb below is worth reading as well.

The Ultimate Guide to GMail Collection of over 80 Tips.

The next link was to intense debate.com.  This site has been mentioned in other blogs and podcasts.  We tool the comments add-on and installed it on Belltowernews.com. 

Just another added feature.

And finally, just for fun, if you live and work in Cambridge, The Periodic Table on steroids...

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