| Wednesday, June
19, 2002
Men and women really do see things differently. Roberta has been
hobbling about with a sprained ankle, and noticed that the kitchen floor
was dirty. It was, noticeably even to me. So I got out the electric broom
to do something about it.
Thought I had it taken care of. I didn't see any more dirt. So she
points out lots of it, stuff I had missed, and I am not talking
about small and obscure stuff. A whole crouton in one case. So I did it
again, and once more, and finally had it to her satisfaction (and I have
to say to mine). I am not quarreling that the job needed doing over a
couple of times. It's that I did not see that it needed doing again. I
just did not SEE it. [There
is more on this in MAIL]
Meanwhile my office is chaos again, and I need to work on throwing
stuff away, but first a bunch of errands have to be run. My days are
devoured by locusts now that she can't drive.
And I want to change over systems. Modernize the main work stations.
That ought to be fun. And we're looking into new ways to host this place.
And other stuff.
I see that Israel is doing what I thought they would have to do: if
"Land for peace" won't work, and it hasn't, then :"Take the
land and expel the inhabitants" is the historical formula. It has
after all been used by everyone and everywhere, although lately the
invasions tend to be by "peaceful immigration." This is the way
history works and always has.
One of my friends says the US public ought to worry about Israel about
as much as we worry about Uruguay. The problem is that we do have
interests in the Near and Middle East. My view is that we ought to be
devoting ourselves to becoming independent of that part of the world
rather than trying to straighten things out over there. There is mail
today on that.
And I should be doing an essay on this, but first errands. And then
cleaning off my desk which has vanished.
One thing I can use some help with. [DONE. THANKS!] COSTCO seems to
have some industrial level shelving in several sizes that look a lot like
what I need. Unfortunately I'm not in COSTCO and haven't been since I let
my Price Club membership lapse years ago. We don't seen sides of beef and
21 frozen steaks any more...
I need a source of shelving, not ugly, with either casters or some kind
of footing broad enough to put those Teflon things under so it can be
slid. I need several widths, but particularly 24" or so which will
allow two PC's side by side, in two layers (that is four PC's on two
shelves, the whole mess 2 feet wide). That will clean up one corner. Then
I need 36" and 48" units. I can get all these darned computers
up off the floor and in a way I can move them around. Before I go stark
racing mad...
Sears? Do they sell such things? Most internet sites have too many
files to look at them with the satellite and too large files to look with
dialup. That is, I can find any page, but going from page to page
will drive me mad, and I usually give up.
I don't need speculations here: what I really want is a good reliable
source of shelving that will hold PC's, be movable, not look too bad, and
comes in 24" and wider sections. Sigh.
THANKS: I now have a pile of suggestions. I'll
run some of them down, then see what develops. THANKS for the prompt
information and I'll look into it.
And from Roland, yet more Office vulnerabilities:
Note that StarOffice/OpenOffice users, even on
Windows, don't have to worry about these particular issues:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp
?url=/technet/security/bulletin/MS02-031.asp
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------------------------------------------------------------ Roland
Dobbins
I've seen Star Office on both Windows and Linux. It's getting there. I
need to work with the document comparison features before I have a strong
opinion.
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