Link Mania
May. 7th, 2008 04:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
amanda_loddenLately, I have been passing around links to various and sundry people, and as I find myself saying "Oh, I'll send that to you, too", it occurred to me that it might be easier to just put them here.
For Julianna, from the comments in![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cyranocyrano's post:
Women, know your limits!
and a long but interesting article by Gloria Steinem called Sex, Lies & Advertising
As multiple computers have required therapeutic reloads recently, I've been experimenting with software to replace the normal bloated pieces of crap. I got help from Superior Alternatives For Crappy Windows Software (which lead me to play with Songbird, the mp3 player from the Mozilla folks. I mostly like it, though I'm still getting used to the way they handle "click-to-play"-- I'd rather it queued the file up, instead of replacing the song playing.) and also 30 Essential Pieces of Free Software
Also, a fabulous article on standards which don't really exist on the Internet, and why they don't exist, and why they probably won't ever really exist.
What with my Mom's stroke a year ago and her subsequent downward spiral, I've been thinking a bit more about what sort of things I (and everyone) should be doing to ensure that if something happened, everything could still be taken care of. Sometimes this means that my Christmas gifts to people are things like fire safes (which is not new; I gave one to friends as a wedding gift many years ago, and another to Brian & Julianna when I bought a savings bond for their son and realized they had nowhere to store it). Sometimes it means that I look at my own fire safe and realize that I would put more into it if only it weren't already full, and then I go off and open a safe deposit box (which has yet to have anything put into it; I really must get around to that). There's also the fairly simple matter of creating a Master Information document to clue in whoever has to deal with it all. This has the added benefit of making me want to clean up and then close some accounts, just to not have to keep track of them anymore. While I'm at it, I probably ought to make a Household Inventory as well. So should you.
From the same site, and sparked in part by conversations with Tif and Julianna about debt reduction, is a pretty good set of Rules To Grow Rich By. It's a series of articles, with one rule per article, most of which are slightly different takes on rules you've probably already heard before. There's also 40 Ways To Reduce Your Monthly Spending, though not all 40 will apply to everyone. Frankly, the entire site is worth spending some time poking around in, but there's a lot of blah to wade through to find the gems.
Something I've been saying for years is that unauthorized copying of files such as mp3s is not hurting the industries those files come from (and is not piracy, which is a wholly different concept). Publishing company O'Reilly agrees.
Also, I love silly t-shirts. I have some basic rules about what sort of shirts I will wear (Rule #1 is that the shirt cannot insult the person reading the shirt). Some of the shirts I lust after are Hello, My Name Is..., I Never, and Prefectionist. You know, in case you felt like buying something for me.
For Julianna, from the comments in
cyranocyrano's post:Women, know your limits!
and a long but interesting article by Gloria Steinem called Sex, Lies & Advertising
As multiple computers have required therapeutic reloads recently, I've been experimenting with software to replace the normal bloated pieces of crap. I got help from Superior Alternatives For Crappy Windows Software (which lead me to play with Songbird, the mp3 player from the Mozilla folks. I mostly like it, though I'm still getting used to the way they handle "click-to-play"-- I'd rather it queued the file up, instead of replacing the song playing.) and also 30 Essential Pieces of Free Software
Also, a fabulous article on standards which don't really exist on the Internet, and why they don't exist, and why they probably won't ever really exist.
What with my Mom's stroke a year ago and her subsequent downward spiral, I've been thinking a bit more about what sort of things I (and everyone) should be doing to ensure that if something happened, everything could still be taken care of. Sometimes this means that my Christmas gifts to people are things like fire safes (which is not new; I gave one to friends as a wedding gift many years ago, and another to Brian & Julianna when I bought a savings bond for their son and realized they had nowhere to store it). Sometimes it means that I look at my own fire safe and realize that I would put more into it if only it weren't already full, and then I go off and open a safe deposit box (which has yet to have anything put into it; I really must get around to that). There's also the fairly simple matter of creating a Master Information document to clue in whoever has to deal with it all. This has the added benefit of making me want to clean up and then close some accounts, just to not have to keep track of them anymore. While I'm at it, I probably ought to make a Household Inventory as well. So should you.
From the same site, and sparked in part by conversations with Tif and Julianna about debt reduction, is a pretty good set of Rules To Grow Rich By. It's a series of articles, with one rule per article, most of which are slightly different takes on rules you've probably already heard before. There's also 40 Ways To Reduce Your Monthly Spending, though not all 40 will apply to everyone. Frankly, the entire site is worth spending some time poking around in, but there's a lot of blah to wade through to find the gems.
Something I've been saying for years is that unauthorized copying of files such as mp3s is not hurting the industries those files come from (and is not piracy, which is a wholly different concept). Publishing company O'Reilly agrees.
Also, I love silly t-shirts. I have some basic rules about what sort of shirts I will wear (Rule #1 is that the shirt cannot insult the person reading the shirt). Some of the shirts I lust after are Hello, My Name Is..., I Never, and Prefectionist. You know, in case you felt like buying something for me.
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Date: 2008-05-08 01:55 pm (UTC)A note about Tshirt lust; without sizes, you're likely to get GC's. Just sayin'. ;) Any way to set up a wishlist at ThinkGeek? ;)
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Date: 2008-05-08 01:59 pm (UTC)2Xs are comfortable roomy and preferred, but XLs work for places that don't go larger than that.
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Date: 2008-05-08 02:04 pm (UTC)Thanks. I like good links that have been previously vetted by others. I have a half-finished database of links for various things, and none of yours are on my list, so I'll add them right away.
Btw, the firesafe was a great gift, not only is everything safe, but it's also in one place. :P
AJ