Amazing. Now here's an idea for entrepreneurs: cafepress.com. Basically it's an outfit that produces custom products (caps, mugs, frisbees, t-shirts, etc.) and does everything except market them for you: you upload your logo, and the handle the orders & fulfillment, all at nominal cost. The interesting thing for me is books: 3 cents a page plus binding, makes a 500 page book sell for $22 plus markup.
Makes me think about the college textbook I've been considering writing.
--Steve
Friday, November 26, 2004
Tuesday, October 19, 2004
Authoxy
With the help of Heath at HRSoftworks(.net), he got Authoxy working for me. We Mac users are now nearly 100% full citizens on our MS network. I can do everything including software update, access network drives, iTunes music store, iTunes radio, Live365, MS Office Update (and other software updates), etc. etc.
Can't do MaxiBidder (colourfull.com) for some reason. It doesn't work. Some other things don't work, like Skype, but that's not surprising because I think some of those special ports are not open to anyone here.
I am a happy camper. I've used Authoxy for about 4 weeks now hard, and it just works. There is an issue with startAuthoxy (startup items) that doesn't seem to be working right but I bet we get it working.
Can't do MaxiBidder (colourfull.com) for some reason. It doesn't work. Some other things don't work, like Skype, but that's not surprising because I think some of those special ports are not open to anyone here.
I am a happy camper. I've used Authoxy for about 4 weeks now hard, and it just works. There is an issue with startAuthoxy (startup items) that doesn't seem to be working right but I bet we get it working.
Wow time flies
It's been over a month, sorry (to all my multitudes of readers, yeah right).
I have a theory about time. When you're a kid, say, 5 years old, one day constitutes a large percent of your total existence (1/(365*5)). But when you're 47, one day constitutes much less than that when compared to your total (1/(365*47)). Consequently, the days seem shorter than they did when you were a kid.
It's just a theory. :)
Ciao.
I have a theory about time. When you're a kid, say, 5 years old, one day constitutes a large percent of your total existence (1/(365*5)). But when you're 47, one day constitutes much less than that when compared to your total (1/(365*47)). Consequently, the days seem shorter than they did when you were a kid.
It's just a theory. :)
Ciao.
Wednesday, September 15, 2004
Visuals
A week ago, several of the deacons in our church came to my house to talk over a change we want to propose at our church. It involves property, mortgages, real estate, etc. We talked through three or four scenarios, came to a couple of decisions.
There I am sitting in prayer meeting tonight and it comes to me in my mind, a beautiful graph showing how one figure will change over time, and how other figures will change in relation to it, all working together to confirm what we decided. I jot down a quick sketch and show it to our pastor and one of the deacons who couldn't be there for the meeting. They see the concept immediately!
It will serve as a superb visual to help the people in our church understand what we're proposing.
Ah the spendor of just the right visual! Worth many thousands of words.
There I am sitting in prayer meeting tonight and it comes to me in my mind, a beautiful graph showing how one figure will change over time, and how other figures will change in relation to it, all working together to confirm what we decided. I jot down a quick sketch and show it to our pastor and one of the deacons who couldn't be there for the meeting. They see the concept immediately!
It will serve as a superb visual to help the people in our church understand what we're proposing.
Ah the spendor of just the right visual! Worth many thousands of words.
Tuesday, September 14, 2004
The Internet: Source of All Knowledge?!?!?
Not so.
We have an optical scanner at school, and it runs software that is no longer commercially supported. The other day scanner decided to forget it's settings, and in order to get it back up and running, we need a "Host Port Communications Configuration" sheet to reprogram it. Could we find the sheet? No. Can we get a blank sheet? Yes. Can we find the settings for the sheet? No (qualified no--some of the settings, but not all, are in the manual). The settings are NOT anywhere on the Internet. So there.
If I find them, I will post them HERE: ___________________.
We have an optical scanner at school, and it runs software that is no longer commercially supported. The other day scanner decided to forget it's settings, and in order to get it back up and running, we need a "Host Port Communications Configuration" sheet to reprogram it. Could we find the sheet? No. Can we get a blank sheet? Yes. Can we find the settings for the sheet? No (qualified no--some of the settings, but not all, are in the manual). The settings are NOT anywhere on the Internet. So there.
If I find them, I will post them HERE: ___________________.
Sunday, September 12, 2004
Looking at Blogs
Spent some time hitting "Next Blog."
Over and over. Next Blog. Back. Next Blog. Back.
Weird people. The poetry ones are fascinating, rather creative, a few good ones. There's nothing for me in the foreign language ones (sorry) or the weird English ones (not sorry). A few interesting reads. What I don't like are the ones filled with foul language or other in-your-face stuff. Why should I have to read or look at it? I don't. Next Blog.
Probably people say the same thing about mine. Next Blog. Back. Next Blog. Back.
I'll reach my limit after I feel like I understand what blogging is all about.
Over and over. Next Blog. Back. Next Blog. Back.
Weird people. The poetry ones are fascinating, rather creative, a few good ones. There's nothing for me in the foreign language ones (sorry) or the weird English ones (not sorry). A few interesting reads. What I don't like are the ones filled with foul language or other in-your-face stuff. Why should I have to read or look at it? I don't. Next Blog.
Probably people say the same thing about mine. Next Blog. Back. Next Blog. Back.
I'll reach my limit after I feel like I understand what blogging is all about.
Saturday, September 11, 2004
September 11ths
My wife said to me this afternoon, "Patches died 8 years ago today." Patch was our first dog, a lovable shepherd mix who strayed into our lives as the smallest of puppies. "Pooch of the millennium" is what I called her. She up and died one day unexpectedly at 8 years of age. Cindy came home at lunchtime and found her dead on the couch. Sad day in our household.
Obviously 9/11/01 was another sad day in our household. I still remember where I was when I saw the first tower fall--in the student center watching the big screen TV. Incredible. My jaw still drops when I see replays of those towers falling Straight Down.
Apparently something as hideous as killing all those innocents in the twin towers is not enough to swing the tide of Muslim opinion against the extremists of their faith. Apparently the recent disaster in the Russian school is not enough. Wonder what it will take?
Obviously 9/11/01 was another sad day in our household. I still remember where I was when I saw the first tower fall--in the student center watching the big screen TV. Incredible. My jaw still drops when I see replays of those towers falling Straight Down.
Apparently something as hideous as killing all those innocents in the twin towers is not enough to swing the tide of Muslim opinion against the extremists of their faith. Apparently the recent disaster in the Russian school is not enough. Wonder what it will take?
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