Optimism

Somewhere is the past few months I heard a talk about the desperate state of affairs. It was porbablly climate change but maybe it was the meltdown or the mideast. In any case he was asked if he was optimistic. He said something like that optimism was the only attitude which leads to effective action so it is our obligation to be optimistic. Fake it 'til you make it.

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Watchman for Dummies

Reasons not to use Flash

http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=accnfh3pfb3_3628252qhd2

I can't get Java to work on Ubuntu Hardy LIve CD

This is one of the error messages I got:

E: openjdk-6-jre-headless: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 127
E: openjdk-6-jre: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
E: icedtea-gcjwebplugin: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured

I can't get colophon to work in RenderX

I get this error message no matter where I put the colophon tag:

C:\Program Files\RenderX\XEP>xep myAnnotatedInterfaceCulture.fo

(document [system-id file:/C:/Program Files/RenderX/XEP/myAnnotatedInterfaceCult

ure.fo]

  (validate

    [error] Element 'fo:page-sequence' cannot be a child of 'fo:flow'. Only bloc

k-level elements are permitted in this context.

    [validation total: 1 error]

Parse error: Invalid XSL FO source 'file:/C:/Program Files/RenderX/XEP/myAnnotat

edInterfaceCulture.fo': 1 error found during validation

So I guess I'll make it a section with a title.

"Silly Little Numbers!"

If people are the

only ones who use

money, how important

can it really be?

Silly little numbers!

~5-year old Rosie Avila

(Original calligraphy by Lelania Avila)

I can't get two columns in the PDF

1/4/09 Update: So far I can get the whole article to be 1 column or two columns, but I can't get the title page to be one column and the body to be two columns. So it doesn't behave as suggested here.

Notes from the 11/7/08 Living with Cancer Conference

Joanne  Rawlings-Sekunda from the Maine Bureau of Insurance

• 800-300-5000
  
• http://www.maine.gov/pfr/insurance/
  
• They have a staff of 11.
  
• 8 of the 11 deal with consumer complaints
  
• In general with insurance, the fewer restrictions, the more expensive.
  

Steve Brakey(sp?) is a Technical Expert from the Bangor SSA office

• He acknowledged that it's hard to reach the Bangor office by phone. They have one line for all of Maine and Eastern Canada and Quebec.
  
• If you call the national 800 number, they're looking at the same computers that they look at in Bangor.
  
• If you must call, the best times are Wednesday and Thursday afternoons. 
• Since I worked in Canada I may be able to get benefits from Canada. I should contact the office in Fredericton NB

I'm not sure who said this:

• File complaints online - I guessing this is Maine Insurance complaints.
  

Other notes here

Test "Quote from a blog" bookmarklet

abc

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' + html + ' [' + title + ']' + '

' ); 

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4. Quote from a blog, which lifts text from a page and formats it for posting to a blog, along with attribution and a link. Because this version uses an advanced Mozilla-only technique described here, though, you might rather use the version that Phil Windley discussed here.

[Jon Udell: Bookmarklets 101]

ghi

RideMatch and Modeling

A project for Max and his students: model ridematch idea in NetLogo.