Just read this on The Onion:
New College Graduates To Be Cryogenically Frozen Until Job Market Improves
Reminds me of some pundits talking back during the big “Y2K” crisis that we all should consider taking the few remaining COBOL programmers and cryogenically preserving them for the time of the “Y10K” crisis so that there would be someone on tap to fix COBOL applications when that problem comes up…. 
That’s the title of the email I just received. Here is a copy of the content:
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We all need to do our own part by abiding in God and living according to His standards – not the corrupt standards of this world or the eroded standards of our once-great country! Then we need to register our important votes in the November elections for candidates that are like-minded and committed to the kind of change that will get our nation back on track.
Please join us in prayer for our country and seek God’s face and His wisdom and guidance in these difficult days.
Gotta love it!
OK, I’ve finally gone and done it. I’ve made the switch permanently (as much as anything is “permanent” 
) from Internet Explorer 8 to the Google Chrome web browser.
The one thing holding me back was the lack of support (either built-in or provided by a third-party add-in) for sending the contents of a web page to Microsoft OneNote. I pretty much live in two applications: Outlook and OneNote. Anything I think I’m going to refer to in the future gets stuck in a OneNote page. OneNote indexes everything, enabling me to do a keyword search on the entire OneNote database for anything I’ve stored there. Technical information, personal projects – heck, even stuff for my ham radio, shortwave and stamp collecting hobbies! – can be easily searched for and retrieved on a moment’s notice.
One thing I do frequently is send information from a web page to OneNote, but I couldn’t do that in Google Chrome until a gentleman by the name of Eugene Rosenfeld came up with a two-step process that gets the job done. In an article here, Mr. Rosenfeld shows that by using the “IE Tab” add-on to read the current page using Internet Explorer’s rendering engine, right-clicking within the page can send the contents of that page to OneNote. It’s a hack, but it’s a very, very good hack!
Since Google Chrome operates – in my personal experience – about 10 times faster than Internet Explorer 8, this saves a lot of time!
See the following locations on the Web for more information about the products mentioned in this article:
Disclaimer: As I’ve emphasized in many a blog posting in the past, I am not an employee of either Microsoft or Google. (I wouldn’t mind working for either, but that’s another story. ) I have no financial or any other connection with either company, nor do I receive any compensation – financial or otherwise – from either for praising their products online.
This past Sunday something came up in conversation that I hadn’t thought about for some time. A friend at church recently had to change her email address because she changed Internet providers at home. I’ve taken my GMail and other accounts for granted over the years, but this reminded me of why I have those other accounts, and not just the one from my Internet Service Provider (ISP).
Here’s the thing: if you only have the email account from your ISP, and you change ISPs, you have to do all sorts of extra work…
…and so on. And you have to do this every single time you change ISPs. In my friend’s case, it was because she switched from Time-Warner Cable to Verizon’s FiOS fiber-optic service. But it could be for whatever reason: moving to a new location that isn’t served by your previous ISP, for example.
Now, if you have an email account that’s independent of your ISP – Google GMail, for example – then you’re spared the inconvenience of having to go through all that hassle. No matter who your ISP is, your GMail account remains the same. Have all of your online subscriptions, emails from your friends, online utilities, all of that stuff sent to your GMail account, and if or when you need to change ISPs you don’t have to do a thing.
It sounds completely obvious, but I’m betting there are a lot of people out there who go through this whole process, completely unaware of the advantage of using an ISP-independent email address, hence this post. Heck, I may even put the URL for this blog item on my business card…! 
//Steve//
OK, this weather officially sucks:
(As taken from the weather gadget on my Win7 desktop.) 106 degrees high today, still 99 degrees at 5:14pm! Definitely not comfortable!
//Steve//
Remember it takes a college degree to fly a plane, but only a high school diploma to fix one; a reassurance to those of us who fly routinely in our jobs. After every flight, UPS pilots fill out a form, called a 'gripe sheet,' which tells mechanics about problems with the aircraft. The mechanics correct the problems, document their repairs on the form, and then pilots review the gripe sheets before the next flight.
Never let it be said that ground crews lack a sense of humor. Here are some actual maintenance complaints submitted by UPS pilots (marked with a P) and the solutions recorded (marked with an S) by maintenance engineers.
By the way, UPS is the only major airline that has never, ever, had an accident.
P: Noise coming from under instrument panel. Sounds like a midget pounding on something with a hammer.
S: Took hammer away from midget.
A Doctor was addressing a large audience in Tampa. "The material we put into our stomachs is enough to have killed most of us sitting here, years ago. Red meat is awful. Soft drinks corrode your stomach lining. Chinese food is loaded with MSG. High fat diets can be disastrous, and none of us realizes the long-term harm caused by the germs in our drinking water. But there is one thing that is the most dangerous of all and we all have, or will, eat it. Can anyone here tell me what food it is that causes the most grief and suffering for years after eating it?" After several seconds of quiet, a 75-year-old man in the front row raised his hand, and softly said, "Wedding Cake."
Enjoy!
//Steve//
