Archive for August 15th, 2006
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I ran across a really cool tool today for bloggers. It is called Windows Live Writer. Yes, it is a beta and I know what I’ve posted recently about betas, but this is not something that takes over your whole PC. This is a blogging tool that integrates with your blog and gives you an extremely useful WYSIWYG editor. It also simplifies the process of adding links, photos and maps to your posts. For this post I am testing the map option. When I clicked on “insert map” I used the address of 25 Delaware for my test.
I was taken to the Windows Live Local site and converted my map to an aerial view, which I inserted to the left. When you insert a map or a picture it is very easy to resize and make position changes. You can also insert the map with text wrapping easily applied. Resizing is just a matter of clicking the map (or picture) and dragging the buttons to the desired size. This blogging tool detects your blog settings and style, allowing it to work with many different formats including wordpress.
Keyword tags are also easily added to increase your search engine hits. If you are a tech geek you will love playing with this software from Microsoft. It is very similar to composing a post in Microsoft Word combined with easy formatting options without the need to use html code.
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The number of alleged and substantiated violations by U.S. military recruiters increased by more than 50 percent in one year, a rise that may reflect growing pressure to meet wartime recruiting goals, according to a Government Accountability Office report released yesterday.
This is not surprising at all considering we are not fighting a Constitutionally declared war. It is a conflict that is increasingly losing support from the citizens of this country.
Citing internal Defense Department data, the GAO found that about 20 percent of active-duty recruiters believe that irregularities — such as coercion, concealing information that would disqualify a candidate and falsifying documents, among others — occur frequently. A majority of recruiters also reported dissatisfaction with their jobs.
I guess a new motto is in order - The Proud, the few and the rest of them.
Read it all here.
If you use Flickr you need to read the following article:
Phishers flick switch, dupe Yahoo users with Flickr
Criminals have taken to a new tactic to dupe Yahoo members into divulging their log-on credentials by sending out bogus emails branded with Flickr, the photo-sharing service Yahoo acquired last year.
In an alert posted Thursday, security company Websense said phishers were switching from using Yahoo Photos to Flickr as the backdrop to their thievery.
Email in a Flickr-style format poses as coming from a friend who wants to show off photos posted to the photo service, and includes a link to a site that captures the victim’s Yahoo username and password.
“This variant of attack has been on-going for over a year,” Websense noted in the alert, “but after the Yahoo acquisition of Flickr, these attacks have started to shift from targeting Yahoo Photos to targeting Flickr.”
“In a democratic society the sovereignty of the people gives power an innocent face, but the reality is there. Every government program generates power: favors to give, favors to withhold. Every government licensing procedure generates power in the capacity to grant, deny or delay. Every contracting office generates power. Our federal government is the biggest carrot-and-stick warehouse in the world.”
“At the time this nation was formed, our population stood at around 3 million. And we produced out of that 3 million people perhaps six leaders of world class — Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Franklin, Madison, and Hamilton. Today, our population stands at 245 million, so we might expect at least 80 times as many world-class leaders — 480 Jeffersons, Madisons, Adams’, Washingtons, Hamiltons, and Franklins. Where are they?”
