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Price appreciation as of Sept. 30

Metro area: Jefferson City, MO
Rank: 92
Quarter: 2.45
1-year: 3.84
5-year: 24.22

5 years

Wow, I just noticed that it has been just a bit over 5 years since I started blogging. My how time slips away.

New Chief of Staff, New Acting Director

On Tuesday, the Governor of Missouri, Matt Blunt, named the Director of Revenue, Trish Vincent, as his new Chief of Staff, and on Wednesday a Division Director within the Department of Revenue, Julie A. Allen, was named as the Acting Director of Revenue.

A Couple of More Missouri Agriculture Blogs

On AgriMissouri Showcase you'll find recipes using Missouri products.

The other one is the Missouri Organic InternActive, which looks as though it is just getting started.

Winding Road #27.0

The December Issue of Winding Road is out.

New Jag

Do you like the new Jag?

I have yet to see one in person, but from the pictures I have seen I would take one. Looks to have some lines of the Mercedes Benz CLS class and the Infiniti M Sedan.

E-mail Retention

Our Governor put out a press release regarding e-mail retention.

GIS Day

Happy GIS Day!

Nissan Rouge

Have you checked out the Nissan Rouge. I had 50 reasons to take it for a test drive.

Blog Roll

Steve Lacey mentions in one of his posts that he worked on a Blog Roll for his second twenty percent project. I just played with it for a few minutes. I need to play with it some more to see if one can add more than one folder at a time rather than adding each one separately. I would also guess taht one could change individual items in the folder as public or private, but that is just a guess at this point.

Anyway, you can see the photo category one along the side for now. I will probably change the position, add some more or just remove and keep using my old Bloglines Blogroll. We'll see.

I really like Bloglines, but I like Google Reader as well. I also like the reader in Onfolio if you can deal with a reader that is not web based.

As Google Reader fits into the Google Suite of products, I find I use it more often, thus my list of sites I follow is a bit more up to date on the Google side. It might not be bad for Bloglines to look at partnering with someone to fit into more of a suite. They have a great product, but some may not make the effort to jump over to it if a site they frequent already has a similar feature. Maybe Bloglines should team with Zoho or Thinkfree or Facebook (there may already be a tie in there as there is for so many other things).

ThinkFree 1GB limit

I don't recall. Has ThinkFree always had the 1GB limit or are they just another one of the free sites that realized free comes at to much of a cost to them and implemented a limit for free accounts?

They may have started with the 1GB limit, but it does seem as though limiting free accounts by size, features, etc. has become more of a trend. Of course, that is understandable from a business standpoint.

CKD

No it is not the latest Calvin Klein scent, it is Chronic Kidney Disease.

I have been diagnosed with CKD, but it is one of those things that you may have as well.  There are 5 stages to CKD.  My doctor tells me that I am at Stage 2.  He said that is what the government would tell you.  I am not so sure that he agrees with the rating system.  Lots of people are running around with Stage 1 and Stage 2 without any symptoms.

I was not experiencing any symptoms, but per other blood tests, it was determined that I should have it checked out.

I have had several blood test and my creatinine levels have consistently be elevated, hence I have CKD.

I have also had an ultrasound and MRA, which has determined that the blood vessels in one of my kidneys is smaller than the other.

 

You might want to check out How Kidneys Work.

 

The National Kidney Foundation states that 1 in 9 adults have CKD.

Adobe Again

I called Adobe again yesterday afternoon.

I had asked to talk to Eric that had put the latest request back in, but they ended up passing me on to Michelle, a supervisor in Customer Service.  Michelle ended up transferring me to Rose in Licensing.  Rose ended up transferring me to Leo, the supervisor in Customer Support that told me back on 10/23/07 that it had been approved.  He stated that the problem was that since the approval was an exception and the license actually falls outside of the normal dates, that is what was causing the problem.  He said that he would talk to Eric and figure out a solution and call me back within 24-48 hours.  Well, at this point it is not within the 24.  We'll see if we hear anything within the 48.

Hiding info in screen shots

A handy feature in Paint.net is the blur effect. This is handy if wanting to add a screen shot for clarification on something, but you don't want some sensitive data to be shown. The example below uses the Unfocus blur. You can set the radius of the blur as well. One simply needs to use one of the selection tools to select the area you want blurred and then select Effects, followed by Blurs,and then select the blur you want.


Click for a larger version.

Adobe

You know, since my Adobe post I still have yet to receive any kind of contact from them. I guess I'll have to try calling again.

I imagine by the time I would get anywhere with this the next version will be announced, although that will probably take place the day after our maintenance expires.

To find out more about Adobe Contribute and the myriad of features it has, you might want to check out their "All things Contribute Change the wwworld...one page at a time" blog. (Don't be alarmed, there is no need to try to adjust your monitor or return it to the manufacturer, that is just an over abundence of sarcasm oozing from the corner of your screen, moving on to another post may clear it up.)

Someone might find some tidbits of information on the Adobe Developer Connection site, although I found it interesting that the Adobe Blogs link goes to a Macromedia address.

mZinga

I wonder if mZinga will be the official social networking site for the Bee Movie?

Org Chart Wiki

Just curious. I am sure Forbes would love for you to fill out your company/organization's Org Chart, but how would your company or organization feel about it? I imagine it could also depend on what information you share.

Lotus Connections and Portal 6.0

I had an invitation passed along to attend a Lunch-n-Learn at our local IBM office on IBM Lotus Connections and Portal 6.0, but it ended up being canceled.

It would have probably been interesting, but I doubt that management would spend money on it.