Written by John Lennon and Yoko Ono
Originally recorded by John & Yoko/The Plastic Ono Band with the Harlem Community Choir, 1971
This version by the great Stevie Riks, uploaded with permission
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Blondie is my personal favorite band ever! Their first five albums are creative, timeless, flavor-rich pop rock, with song writing as good as it gets and rock-solid musicianship. One of my great musical pleasures is a periodic listening of those first five albums straight through.
I just watched the BBC documentary Blondie One Way or Another (2006). It skips quickly through the meatiest part of their success, probably ’cause that’s the part we already know best, but puts detail to both the before and after. I knew the before pretty well, too, having read most books and articles on the band in years past, but this adds some more early color that was helpful. The most revealing part, tho, is in its coverage of what’s happened since The Hunter.
I use two PCs all day, and I’ve seen end users with more than two PCs on their desks. My brain moves between tasks on the different monitors, often without consideration for which machine they happen to be running on. Actual data input seems like a natural division between machines, so the two keyboards don’t bother me. But I would *love* to have a wireless mouse that would switch machines cleanly so my two machines feel more like one big (albeit compartmented) workspace, at least for minor (point-and-click) tasks.
Over the last few weeks, I’ve watched most of the Star Trek: Voyager series. I know it’s not hugely popular amongst Trek fans, but it’s the post-original series I enjoy the most.
Questioning what is (really) “real” has been a recurring Trek theme since the original pilot, and Voyager focused on that frequently, perhaps too frequently. I observed recently that the entire crew should have been certifiably insane by the end of the second season. Here’s my list of ways in which Voyager shook their grip on “reality” on multiple occasions:
Update (8/26/11): I’m back at work with Symantec, supporting Workspace Streaming and Workspace Virtualization onsite at a major customer, on the Jersey side of the Hudson. Excelsior!
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I’m actively seeking permanent employment, and my resume page has been updated, http://sjones.prblogs.org/my-resume/. I believe either of the following would be optimal fits for me:
Over the years, I’ve accomplished great things as both a business person and as a technologist. On the surface, these seem like different disciplines. In interviews, I’ve run into the quandary where hiring managers looking for a business guy think, “well, you’re more of a technologist;” and hiring managers looking for a tech guy think, “well, you’re more of a business and marketing person.” But the fact is I excel at both! Whether it’s people or computers, the recipe for success is the same: figure out what needs to be done, get the extended team on the same page, and care deeply about following through.
Sick of trying to access Web content in the UK that is “not available in your country”? Darn stingy Brits… ! 
Here’s your fix.
My first attempt at a “de-motivator”.
” …statistically, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous than gun owners… ” Read: http://wallysworld.org/doctors-vs-gun-owners
I composed this as Facebook comments to a friend re: the above query. I’m posting it here to increase the chance of people reading it. 
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First we have to agree on some definitions.
The first professional baseball teams (three of them!) were all in Brooklyn, NY, starting in 1859. They were called Brooklyn Bedford, Brooklyn Harmony and Brooklyn Olympic.
The first league of professional baseball teams was the “National Association of Professional Base Ball Players,” beginning in 1871. There were nine teams, including a “Boston Red Stockings,” but no Cincinnati team.
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So I’m pokin’ around in a pile of old hardware here at IFAS Information Technology at the University of Florida… and I find this rather ancient and generally unremarkable device, “new” in the box (it even says, “NEW!” right on there):
From my Facebook notes, at http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=386029077634&id=1468827369&ref=nf if you have a Facebook account…
Today at 11:48amSent via their online support request service:
It is very important that a *senior customer service rep* or *supervisor/manager* contact me as quickly as possible.
I changed my template recently, not because I think this one looks better — on the contrary, my previous two were both superior aesthetically — but because this one doesn’t mangle formatting like the others did. In fact, you’ll notice that the SVS Wallpapers page is back. I never did make any edits or fixes of any kind; it just works with this template and didn’t with the previous one…
I would like PRblogs/Edublogs to please consider opening up an “Edit HTML” option for our templates, similar to what Blogger has. Templates are great, but community-submitted templates all too often seem to need a little tweak here or fix there. For those of us who know how to do it — or at least are daring enough to try! — it’s frustrating that we don’t have that option here. Thanks, and… Excelsior!
After my answer a couple days ago about Web-based products, the same user came back with another question: “What is the Web?” This is my attempt at a complete and coherent response:
The World Wide Web (a.k.a. “WWW” or just “the Web”) is a set of standards for publishing and viewing content on the Internet. The Web is sometimes called an Internet-based “application”… and it is, in a way. But for the purposes of this discussion, it’s better to think of it as a platform.
The Web was invented in 1990 by a man named Tim Berners-Lee, as a means to publish information internally at CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research).
The two main standards that make up the Web are HTTP and HTML.
