True Patriots Hang Jack-Booted Census Worker

Idiocy...sheer idiocy:

When Bill Sparkman told retired trooper Gilbert Acciardo that he was going door-to-door collecting census data in rural Kentucky, the former cop drawing on years of experience warned: "Be careful."

The 51-year-old Sparkman was found hanged from a tree near a Kentucky cemetery and had the word "fed" scrawled on his chest, a law enforcement official said Wednesday, and the FBI is investigating whether he was a victim of anti-government sentiment.

Next up in Kentucky: lynching people because they file tax returns.

Microsoft OneNote: Handy, But Annoying

I've taken to using Microsoft OneNote to take notes...especially during the multiple training courses I've been taking during my ramp-up at work. It's very useful and pretty well put-together, but I've had some major annoyances that are impeding my productivity:

Screen Clips
Screen clips are essential in software. OneNote gives you a handy button to clip something from the last window you were in. You just press this button:

This leads to a screen where you can select the section of the page to clip...you select that section, and it magically inserts the clip into OneNote. Unfortunately, it includes extra whitespace and text on when the screen clipping was taken:


As far as I can tell, there's no way to get rid of this. It's frustrating. I've been Googling for the answer, but no dice so far.

Migrating and Organizing Notes
I've had reason to switch computers a few times lately. OneNote notebooks are kept in your user profile (My Documents >> OneNote Notebooks) by default, but migrating them with their structure isn't as simple as moving the files from one machine to another. OneNote seems to treat all migrated notebooks as new notebooks, instead of placing them within the Personal Notebook or the Work Notebook hierarchies. And short of buying Sharepoint, forget about storing them in a centralized repository like a SAN or NAS...

Make It a Hierarchy, Damnit
OneNote tries hard to give you tabs and buttons to organize your notebooks. Why not give people the familiar folder-based hierarchy?

I'll keep using OneNote, but damn...I'd like to find a way around these.

Ayn Rand Loves You

The BBC Reports...

People of Wal-Mart...

My new favoritest site:
http://peopleofwalmart.com/

A few of my favorites:



Um, this here's my date...for the prom...or for after.



Wal-Mart pimp...

Fundie Pastor Prays for Obama to Die...Parissioner Takes Gun to Obama Town Hall

They're showing their true colors. After the vitriolic bullshit and lies about death panels, government-funded abortions, and other right wing make-believe, the troglodytes are frothing at the mouth almost enough to destroy themselves. After an astroturf teabagger shill brought an AR-15 to an Obama town hall meeting, it was revealed that his pastor prayed for Obama to die and go to hell, making it a cetral theme of his sermon:

The sermon, which was titled "Why I Hate Barack Obama" and also contained virulent anti-gay themes...

Once again, these people have nothing meaningful or insightful to say, so they revert to idiocy, hate, and outright lies to prevent reform. They're the real America-haters.

Carter Leaves Southern Baptists

Former President Jimmy Carter has left the Southern Baptist Convention because of growing frustration over the denomination's "unbending sexism towards women and girls..."

About time, Jimmy.