Vernor Vinge's novel A Deepness in the Sky - UNIX epoch

I had forgotten that, "Vernor Vinge's novel A Deepness in the Sky describes a space-faring trading civilization tens of thousands of years (hundreds of gigaseconds) in the future that apparently still uses the Unix epoch" (Wikipedia)

Cool.

KeepVid.com "Keep It!" - bookmarklet to keep/save/download a video

Another bookmaklet...
Save video using this bookmarklet from KeepVid.com...

KeepVid.com "Keep It!" bookmarklet

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Stop neglecting reading multiple email accounts - Use Gmail to send from your other email addresses - Adding a custom 'From' address

Q: Do you have multiple email addresses? Do you ever neglect reading any of your email addresses?

A: If you answered yes to either question, you can benefit from using Gmail to combine* all of your email addresses to a single Gmail account *AND* be able to send "as" any of your email addresses.  After you've set up your email accounts within Gmail, you can then send as any of your email addresses, from the Compose window, use the "From" pop-up field to select the desired account**.

*Google (Gmail Help) explains how to do this with "Adding a custom 'From' address", for example, start by going to Settings–>Accounts - under "Send mail as," click " Add another email address you own"

Gmail - Add another email address you own - example

** for example:

Gmail - Send as or from any of your email addresses

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My new home page in Flock is Fast Dial

My new home page in Flock is Fast Dial.
Fast Dial is a Mozilla extension/add-on that adds Opera Speed Dial functionality to Firefox or Flock...

Flock - Customized

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Demise of Google Notebook; Rise of Zoho Notebook?

With the demise of Google Notebook development (is.gd/fWe0), time to switch to Zoho Notebook [Helper add-on is.gd/fWnR] http://www.flickr.com/photos/53343854@N00/3198487306/

Or another web clip tool.

Zoho Notebook Helper - Firefox Add-on - Add to Zoho Notebook

Wow, every job search site is a pain and unique

As I have been looking for a new job, I have been signing up for various job search sites.

Wow, are they a pain *and* each one is unique!!! The User Experience is not pleasant.

Here is a small sample:

• job.com
• jobsonline.net
  
• The Ladders - http://technology.theladders.com
• Yahoo Hotjobs: http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/jobs/
• CareerBuilder http://www.careerbuilder.com
  
• indeed.com
  
• monster.com
  
• simplyhired.com
• www.juju.com

Broadband outage - 2Wire 3800HGV-B Gateway router

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Recently we had a Broadband outage at home. It lasted for more than 24 hours. The cause, as it turns out, was that the 30 second electrical outage, due to the replacement of the power meter by PG&E, broke something within the 2Wire router (for our AT&T U-verse), model 3800HGV-B Gateway . Over the phone, the tech support agent had asked me to power cycle the router, and then to 'reset' the router. These did not resolve the issue, so someone was dispatched.

After reviewing all of the connections, over the course of more than 3 hours, the onsite technician reset the router. This time, that the router was reset, the reset button was held down for 30 seconds, as opposed to the 15 seconds which was recommended by the tech support agent.

Hopefully, the onsite representative will tell his teammates *and* the tech support center, that 30 seconds works better than 15 seconds. But, he may not tell, as he may be embarrassed that he had not tried that at the beginning of his visit, before spending the 3+ hours troubleshooting it as a connectivity issue.