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I finally found a solution for Google Calendar Sync crashing Outlook. Two simple steps [they’re always simple, aren’t they?]:

1. Delete all the files in folder c:\documents and settings\{username}\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Google Calendar Sync\data_files
2. Perform a one-way sync from Outlook to Google

Note I run it on XP/SP3; if you are using a newer version of Windows then change ‘Documents and settings’ to the equivalent Users location.

Yesterday upon the phone
I met a man who wasn’t home.
His avatar is not avail;
I wish like hell he had voice mail!

I wonder if those who want English to be the official American language know that English is the official language of a country called England (a monarchy). The English invented this language and brought it with them when they emmigrated to America.

Native American languages include salishan, chinookan, iroquois, navaho, cayuse and timucua to name a few.

Re Florida’s reluctance to arrest the killer — if George Zimmerman was black and Trayvon Martin was white, do you think Zimmerman would still be a free man? And do you think this episode motivates more black Floridians to purchase handguns to protect themselves against Zimmermans?

The default window style in Fedora 16 lost the standard minimize and maximize buttons, for some strange reason. Here’s how to bring them back, paraphrased from ‘my own blog’:

1: Download gconf-editor

2: Run gconf-editor

3: Go to / -> desktop -> gnome -> shell -> windows

4: Click on the value of button_layout and change it to:
“:minimize,maximize,close”

5: Logout and log back in again … done!

Thanks, internet!
: )

US President Obama is in “high-level talks” with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu [or is it the other way around?] about attacking third party country Iran. Israel is trumpeting their concern over Iran’s nuclear program combined with Iran’s harsh criticism of Israel. The fact that both Israel and the US have more nuclear weapons than Iran is not the point. The point is, Iran should not get them because they hate Israel.

What, you thought the US and Israel would talk about something else? The Palestinians for instance? What a curious idea, that.

Enemies can be convenient, especially for super-militarized superpowers. If the Palestinians were to be compensated for their land, and given equal rights in Israel, and treated like, you know, civilized people, there’s a good chance Iran would ratchet down their criticism of Israel. That would make them less of an enemy. Who knows how long it would take for the US to find another one?

Eh, probably not too long. Is there another reason we might benefit by invading Iran? Hmm, do they have oil there?

Regardless of how it pans out in Virginia, several US states — South Dakota and Missouri for example — recently passed laws defining the beginning of human life as occurring at conception. Being ratified as a state law makes it so [at least within state boundaries].

Since corporations are legally human beings in all 50 of these United States, I hereby propose that one of the states currently deficient in beginning of human life [aka ‘personhood’] statutes enact legislation defining human life as beginning at incorporation.

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The iPad does not support common programming keys on its virtual keyboard. For instance, there is no way to type the backtick character above. This is a problem when you need to use this character.

A simple but annoying way to deal with this is to do a web search for that character, find it on some website and use good old copy/paste. For our convenience I posted this character on a separate line at the top of this post. This cheap trick only works for printable characters, alas.

Note that some iPad apps add additional keys on another bar at the top of the keyboard. I have yet to find an app which provides the entire comprehensive keyboard known and loved by coders and sysadmins… opportunity!

What do I want? An app which performs peer-to-peer file transfers between android devices and iPads. When do I want it? Now!

Shamelessly stolen from Jennifer Daniel via NYT of Jan 22.

32 seats full –
Oooh, see the pretty ponies!
Ruh-roh, no wifi.