Heavy rain due to all the moisture in the air, and a bunch of cloud to ground lightning. Stopped in Nassau on my way home to get some bread and was taking a few shots of all the clouds piled on clouds
when I noticed this at the edge of the clouds moving to the east ahead of me.
While an argument could be made that passwords should be changed routinely, the fact that some passwords have never HAD to be changed for whatever reason gives me some reassurance that, at least on some levels, I have clue as to what I’m doing…
On a day like today, where I’m flashing back to Little Brother by Cory Doctorow, I’m a little worried about our computer-based society… and what happens to people without literacy.
Page 10 of The Casual Vacancy and… had to look up a word.
vetiver |?vet?v?r|(also vetivert |-v?rt|)
noun
a fragrant extract or essential oil obtained from the root of an Indian grass, used in perfumery and aromatherapy.
This is already looking good and I’m enjoying the small-town-small-minded-inner-mind-workings of everyone I’ve met so far.
Stole this from my pal Sandy, who is also posting a great bunch of rules from Henry Miller about the creative process and doing the work. She scours the web for the best of the best quotes and videos and stuff about making stuff and squirrel pictures so we don’t have to. We have only to enjoy and share them with our friends.
The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem. – Theodore Rubin
This should be emblazened in large letters in many places. It’s up there with that thing about insanity being doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result, LOL. Cuz honey, you and I both know people that that quote was written about. (sympathetic nodding ensues)
I love email. I loved Eudora, a great software for email, no longer available for Macs and barely available for WIN. I have to use one web-based mail which isn’t great. Most of my mail these days goes into Apple’s own Mail program. Cleverly named, right?
The thing I like about email clients is that you can read and delete (and many people do this obsessively) or you can use the power of the software to do all kinds of things for you.
For example, I have a couple filters or rules which looks for any email from any email list I’m on that has the word “virus” in the subject line or body and sends it to trash. It includes some variations of the word, like “v*rus” and throws “hacke” into the mix as well. These emails go right to trash. It’s easy enough to get the attachments to go away and I don’t worry particularly about the viruses themselves but the endless reports and yammering about them is ridiculous. All that goes right to trash.
There’s one in my rules re iPads. Sometimes email lists are more like iPad self-help forums than anything else. Off to trash it goes.
Rules move mail from the inbox to their final resting place so I don’t have to. I have a smart or dynamic mailbox that is full of mail which “arrived today and is unread.” That way things don’t get lost, regardless of their final mailbox assignment. At midnight that smart mailbox gets emptied and as I read the mail, it goes away too.
I can see a new category of filtering on the horizon – to screen out repetitive and unwanted youtube videos. You know the ones – all the cat and kitten videos and fountains of soda.
I have been all things unholy; if God can work through me, He can work through anyone.
