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Don’t you just love reading about governments making stupid assumptions about people? No? Me neither.

It seems many people may be terrorists by doing things that are

• perfectly legal
• required due to other stupid government laws
• necessary to ensure privacy

Here’s the news article to provide some background on the FBI and DoJ thoughts.

A few months ago, I purchased Quicken 2012 Home & Business with the intent of upgrading my Quicken 2008 version which runs pretty well under Linux in WINE. I finally got around to trying to get it working. I’m sad to report that after over 8 hours of attempts, I was unable to get Quicken 2012 to startup and stay running for more than 10 seconds before crashing under WINE. Sorry.

There are instructions over at the WineHQ to get Quicken 2012 running. These did not work for me.

For most readers, that is enough to move along.

The Question

If wiretaps and intercepting snail-mail both require a court order in the USA, then why doesn’t listening in on internet communications also require a court order?

If you trust Google maps, I think you’re crazy. Over the years, it has sent me to the wrong place numerous times.

Recently, deliveries to my home have been screwed. The only explanation that I have is because Google invented a new street name and points the correct address to the wrong houses.

Almost every week, I see the same question asked on different technology websites. That question, "How should I learn to program X?" Below I'll attempt to provide a considered answer that question. Other people will have different answers.

Every year I receive a text message on my cell phone reminding me that my minutes are about to expire. For the last 5+ years, I’ve added $10 worth of minutes every October to keep the plan alive.

Just $10/year for cell phone use?

Life is too short to deal with filing (paper or electronic) very much. We all have better things to do with our time than waste it on excess organization. The goal is to locate a receipt or statement fast enough. Nobody is watching your filing – there is no test later. I can’t speak for anyone else, but I usually need to find a single document every year, no more. Minimal effort for maximum return is the goal.

At my day job, I’ve been doing some Android development. Due to the nature of the application, we’d like to connect the device to larger screens both directly using HDMI and by streaming through a DLNA client/server connection.

Anyway, I ordered a 10 foot HDMI cable off Amazon last week and it arrived today. After connecting the Android tablet to the TV and pressing “play”, I was happy to see the same thing displayed on the tablet show up on the 37 inch HDTV here. Pretty sweet …. until ….

This article is just for me to recall how to print envelopes.

Using LibreOffice, use the Insert —> Envelope menu.

• Addressee is the TO field.
• Set the paper to landscape.
• look at the print preview – move the location box as needed.
• Use the front feed for the Samsung printer.
• Insert the envelope with the print-side up with the normal fold opening from the center and down to the left of the printer. You will read the envelope from the right-hand side of the printer looking left.

If this helps someone else, I’d be shocked. OTOH, I don’t use paper envelopes very often, so having this written down somewhere means fewer throw way envelopes due to failed printing attempts.

This morning I saw an email from a business associate. It contained a link to an article on LinkedIn. That article was actually hosted on mashup. The article was about Social Media Overload; he called it The Sharepocalypse. After reading a fairly long article pointing out all the issues with the different human interactions with the main social media providers, I wanted to add a comment. Oddly, I couldn’t unless I used either a twitter or facebook account to login.