Mephistos

I think I mentioned a similar tool to Weekly Browsing about six to eight weeks ago. I was so excited at the time with a tool called Browse Periodically and had not tested it to my purposes. While the later worked just fine in most instances, it was not exactly what I wanted. I will say that Weekly Browsing is a much better option in both functionality and suitability to my purposes. And just so everyone is on the same page I am talking about plugins for the Firefox browser.

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Some of you may have heard about the secret negotiations between Google and Verizon last week where Google basically took the stand that net neutrality is no longer something they are necessarily concerned about.  It is the kind of thing that I have long been expecting one of the big players to move toward and my lack of previous faith in Google has proved to be a bit valid.  Suppose though, before I get into it to far I need to probably define what is meant by net neutrality.

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Never have been one for actually taking notes during a lecture or meeting, as key concept just stick with me.  However, little reminder notes about things I want to do or look into are helpful if it not part of such a major concept at the point of making the note.  I tend to make them all over the place, including the calender (physical and virtual), note cards, several smaller notebooks, two different notepads in executive folders, the occasional napkin, side of the palm of my hand, any odd scrap of paper, and even my white boards on occasion.  This leads to more time in general spent trying to make sense of the notes and keeping them organized that actual action the notes (which is not for those wondering, one of the seven habits of highly effectual people).

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I know… I came back from vacation with a good ten or fifteen ideas to blog about from that wonderful trip.  Not to mention I need to get over on eligius.org and write a few blogs there as well – though to be honest most of those readers are on vacation in Pennsylvania this week, so I will hold off on that one.  The short of it though, is that I am easily distracted when I find new things or even remember something I meant to pursue a few weeks ago and forgot about.  So, a couple of things that I have started here and on my other blogs both before and after vacation deserve a little mention and some explanation.

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Several things that I have figured out while on the recent vacation trip and I plan to blog about most of them going forward.  Thought I would start out with the camera and a few things I have observed and plans going forward on that front.  Between my wife and myself we have two older Kodak EasyShare digital cameras, mine being slightly better then hers.  Neither has a high mega pixel ability compared to the typical range of cameras sold today, but mine edge hers slightly so that is the one we took.  It should be noted, I had one that was much better but the LCD screen got cracked at some point so this was the fall back position.

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