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Electronic Documents – more to come…

I'm overwhelmed at the response that I've gotten to the article that I wrote on using Adobe Acrobat to handle electronic documents.  I barely scratched the surface in that article.  There is so much more to be discussed, and so now I've got to map out a second article.  One thing I'll cover is how to use Acrobat to fill in forms, which seems to be something that people have no idea is an available option. 

Exhibit A: my wife (who's a lawyer) needed to fill out a grant application for the bar association group that she is involved with.  She asked her firm's computer people if it was possible to scan the document and then somehow fill it out.  They told her that was not possible.  Of course, they are totally wrong.  I scanned the 9 pages in about 5 minutes with my little Canon 690U ($79) USB scanner, and then created form fields for the document with Acrobat.  The next time someone wants to fill out that grant application form they can do it with their computer instead of a typewriter.   Why use typewriters for stuff like this? 

[Ernie the Attorney] [dws.]

The gang that couldn't loot straight. The fall of the '90s bubble's icons shows just why Americans would be crazy to trust their retirement money to the stock market. [Salon.com] [dws.]

The rare male bachelor (degree). The Washington Post is running a story on the decline in numbers of males receiving Bachelor's Degrees. As their graphic shows, of those receiving bachelor's degrees in 2000, only 43% were male. Although not a huge disproportion, it should be noted that this trend is projected to continue, and become worse. [kuro5hin.org]

I've been out of town and haven't kept up with my reading, but is this true? I'll stay off my soapbox for the time being, but I can hardly believe that people go so far with this stuff. Maybe I belong in a nice, cozy little mid-west town where God and family are still sacred. Maybe it's because I'm from such a town that I believe they are. Is it possible to take freedom too far? When the first Americans came here, they left a place that didn't agree with their beliefs. Can we ask anyone who doesn't agree with the original American beliefs to just go away? OK, I'm done now.

– andy

US Pledge of Allegiance Ruled Unconstitutional. Millions of American schoolchildren — including almost all adults who grew up in the US — have for two generations recited a daily pledge of allegiance in schools. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals today ruled that pledge to be a violation of the US Constitution. Social conservatives are outraged, liberals are smirking, and many of us are just stunned. [kuro5hin.org]

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I kinda like this one. – andy

Sam Rayburn. “Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.” [Motivational Quotes of the Day] [dws.]

Michael J. Fox. “I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.” [Motivational Quotes of the Day] [dws.]

Wi-Fi users take cue from hobos. In London, techies are “warchalking,” drawing a chalk symbol on a wall or pavement to indicate the presence of a wireless networking node–much like people once signaled each other about a good meal spot. [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog]

From Mac to Windows and back. Back to Mac. Like so many folks who had to leave their Macs behind as they moved into the business world, Alan Graham found himself with three desktop PCs and a Toshiba laptop. They have since passed through eBay, and now Alan is a columnist for the Mac DevCenter. Here's how a Mac user got trapped in Windows, and escaped. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] [Mac Net Journal] [dws.]

Semant-O-Matic may be just the thing. Its author, Maciej Ceglowski, calls it a Blog semantic search engine. [Scripting News]