I learned the truth at seventeen
That love was meant for beauty queens
And high school girls with clear skinned smiles
Who married young and then retired
The valentines I never knew
The Friday night charades of youth
Were spent on one more beautiful
At seventeen I learned the truth…
And those of us with ravaged faces
Lacking in the social graces
Desperately remained at home
Inventing lovers on the phone
Who called to say “come dance with me”
And murmured vague obscenities
It isn’t all it seems at seventeen…
A brown eyed girl in hand me downs
Whose name I never could pronounce
Said: “Pity please the ones who serve
They only get what they deserve”
The rich relationed hometown queen
Marries into what she needs
With a guarantee of company
And haven for the elderly…
So remember those who win the game
Lose the love they sought to gain
In debitures of quality and dubious integrity
Their small-town eyes will gape at you
In dull surprise when payment due
Exceeds accounts received at seventeen…
To those of us who knew the pain
Of valentines that never came
And those whose names were never called
When choosing sides for basketball
It was long ago and far away
the world was younger than today
when dreams were all they gave for free
to ugly duckling girls like me…
We all play the game, and when we dare
We cheat ourselves at solitaire
Inventing lovers on the phone
Repenting other lives unknown
That call and say: “Come on, dance with me”
And murmur vague obscenities
At ugly girls like me, at seventeen…
I use Ubuntu Linux and I liked Aptana but they dropped PHP support so I am switching to Eclipse (sorry, Netbeans looks ugly).
After installing Eclipse I need to install PDT but was having problem with the instruction on http://wiki.eclipse.org/PDT/Installation (Eclipse 3.5 / Galileo / PDT 2.2.) … I didn’t want to download the zip file so I was doing it from the update site. I had to start Eclipse and:
go to Windows–> Preference–> Install Updates–> Available Software Sites to add DLTK and PDT sites. Then
go to Help –> Install New Software and pull down from the Work with menu as (not clearly) instructed to install PDT 2.2.
Oddly, it didn’t work for me. I then observed that on the Available Software Site instruction (http://wiki.eclipse.org/PDT/Installation#From_Update_Site) there is this Galileo site and The Eclipse Project something site, whereas mine had nothing but the DLTK and PDT sites I added. No wonder it didn’t work with the PDT installation flow. So I found and added this Galileo link (http://download.eclipse.org/releases/galileo) from a nice blog by a nice galileo guy and add it to the Available Software Sites and Kaboom! I got it!! This should be installed automatically, but, hey!
Well, I work hard, so you don’t have to.
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…and later on I didn’t want to work so hard, so I switch back to Aptana, which looks more like a real piece of software…don’t mind me, I am a kindergarten student in programming.
Zotero is charging for online file storage if you are using their online file synchronization after 100MB. Hmm…I’ll have to say, this is not necessarily a bad thing. If users like me don’t donate enough funds, then we’ll have to pray that they could find some deep pocket donators. Looks like they didn’t find enough, so it’s a good thing to be self-sustaining, then.
I like Zotero, but am not ready to pay that kind of money yet (the price is reasonable, though). I do need to work on multiple computers, though. Since Zotero separates bibliographical data from file attachments, and the bibliography metadata is free (still) to sync, so I use Zotero to sync my bibliography and use DropBox to synchronize the attached files (I store PDF’s). To do that, I uncheck the File Syncing options and configure the Zotero folder under my DropBox under Preferences –> Advanced –> Data Directory Location and use Custom location under DropBox instead of Firefox profile directory.
This has worked perfectly so far. A student once asked me how many I could sync with this configuration. Here is my math: let’s say one PDF file takes 500 K bites of space, with DropBox’s 2 GB free service you can store up to 2,000 files. I believe this should be enough to produce a Ph.D.
One thing the good Zotero people could do, though, is to ask for partners to donate their storage. At a time when storage is so cheap, universities won’t have problem providing this service. With universities participating in this type of services, the user population will increase dramatically. I believe this will create a better revenue later than the current business model. Google, for example, charge for NPO’s larger than 3,000 users. There’s always something we can learn from those “don’t be evil” people.
Okay I am a little left behind here, but I ran into some old pages about Google Lively and I was like: huh? There’s something about Google I don’t know?
Ya, admit it, there are things that happen so fast and, “before you know it”, it’s gone. From July 2008 to end of 2008? and the best you could do with it is to leave a website there? (www.lively.com)
Not lively anymore, obviously.
*well, let me confess. I had a Google Lively account. I just wasn’t sober enough to recall it. I don’t even feel reminiscent when I saw “Google Lively” this time. Call me old but that’s how Google Lively died.
If my friends in Google ever does anything stupid, the Gmail Contacts is one of them. The reason? if you have more than 20 contacts, try organize them into groups and you’ll see what I mean.
And the reason? Well, tell you what, I think Gmail engineers are not email users. They probably receive 5 emails everyday or having their secretive G-SOMETHING gadgets for their communication instead of emails.
Is this going to get better? I doubt. I mean, why bother, right? It took Gmail only 2 years to implement a Delete button and they still don’t let you do sorting on the messages.
Hmm…I smell an opportunity here…I should start Stupidoo and to offer competitive services against Google. So when Google become Microsoft, I’ll be the new Google.
I used hyperspin.com to monitor my sites and it was great with good features (except not so great that I would pay out of my pocket to them to use it). So what happened is that after the trial period they test my one site one time every hour. This is interesting. I think I have better luck knowing if my sites are down with my iPhone. Of course I feel a little uneasy without knowing if my sites are down. But, hey, there must be something free out there, right?
Well, if you are like me, then our prayers have been answered. I ran into this http://wasitup.com. It is cool and all. Very simplistic and neat. They (he, it seems to be, looks like a geek’s nice work as his past time) test you sites every 5 minutes. I just started using it so I am around the first couple of thousand users there.
It’s cool for several reasons:
It’s free.
It (as in contrary to my iPhone) gives what I wanted.
It’s free.
The website interface is totally kewl!!!
The management is … how can I say, he not only not giving you a management portal, you don’t even get an account. What he does is: you send in emails when you need to know how many sites you are monitoring. Geez, I’d call that guy a smarty….!!! (Seriously, what a brilliant idea, right?)
(Again, don’t forget to use it to feel the coolness of this guy’s management procedure and interface design ideas.)
