Too much to do, all urgent, all expensive.

I'm overwhelmed.

I have several major tasks to do. Diving into any would impede my progress on the others. They're all important and most are blocked by lack of money, though I may be able to overcome that by asking the right people.

Even without the resource limits this feels like a case of paradox ( Read more... )

It doesn't seem to matter the size of the computer. My browsing style makes them slow. Cleaning up again (and yes, bookmarking too.)

( housing resources, oil/water separator, kitkat alarm self-silences, obscene repair quote, Google kills Reader and Code and yanks another feature from Voice, trouble answering Voice, trouble reading Forum, Parallels subscription, slim airbeds, learning from clients (video gear, cat box, plant care), missing the peak earning window, cleaning cat stink, bioelectric impedence of living tissue )

Some time ago I did some research on ReadyBoost, Microsoft's attempt to pep up responsiveness by using random access flash storage as disk cache for frequently accessed files or parts of files.
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WTF, Google?

I wanted Alex to be able to receive her Google Voicemail on her new iPhone so I installed Google Voice after noting that most of the reviews for the current version were one-star and complained about recent hangouts-related changes.

On refreshing the Google Voice web page she's now shown a message reading:
Opted in receiving SMS and ( Read more... )

Okay this new image sort captcha thing has to go. It doesn't always work and it's hard to see. Should a blurry closeup of what looks like vomit in tupperware be grouped with houses and pizzas? Do I click again to release or just mouse-up? Is that dark sploge part of a dog or part of a fish ( Read more... )

Input text (source not vetted) posted here [ https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/aspartame/conversations/messages/25107 ]
says:
Methanol (wood alcohol), blood half-life 3 hours, is made in humans only into uncontrolled formaldehyde right inside cells by ADH1 enzyme in 20 specific tissues, the WC Monte paradigm ( Read more... )

There's a company somewhere north of here that offers all sorts of phone and VoIP magic. Google Voice uses them. Ring.to uses them. I want to learn how to use them. Not today but within a year.


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looking for obsolete tools ( Read more... )

While browsing porn videos recently I followed a link mentioned there and wound up with a new account on AdultHookup.com. It's been mildly entertaining.

Most of the activity seems to come from fictitious profiles, whose job is to drive traffic to the site's payment page, and from sex workers, mostly webcam hosts, whose goal is also to get paid.( blah blah fake fake spammity spam baked beans and spam )

Frog in a frying pan ( Read more... )