Is Andrew Cuomo Politically Impotent or Just a Hypocrite?

"Young Turks" want to know!  Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks sent me an email, explaining his group took an in depth look at New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's proposal to back the public financing bill.  Is Cuomo going to follow through with his word?  What are the different factors?

The Young Turks, hosted by Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian, claims to be the largest online news show in the world, covering politics, economics, pop culture, social trends and lifestyle.  The program is approaching 1 million YouTube subscribers.

The Young Turks Network is a Multi-Channel Network of online video talk shows, consisting mostly of TYT owned-and-operated shows and a select group of outside partners.  The group says the network generates over 50 million views per month and has over a billion lifetime views.  

Here's a link to the Turks' Cuomo YouTube clip:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBcrySE5gek. 

drifting mouse pointer dell latitude c600 mouse driver fix

If you own a Dell laptop and your pointer is drifting all over the place, this post is for you!

I am the happy owner of a Dell Latitude C600 laptop computer purchased at a garage sale for $1. It was beat, and the owners said the harddrive was unrecoverable. I experimented. I tinkered. I brought the beast back to life. Now, it rolls on Windows XP; the Latitude battery kicks ass - I get 4.5 hours uptime at full charge. But then, a random issue popped up, after I was forced to install one of those ugly Windows Service Packs I had been trying to avoid: the mouse pointer began drifting, slowly at first, at random times, for no apparent reason. Then it got faster. And faster.

Checking Google I ran across several boards, forums and "ask" sites dating back to the early 2000's where other Latitude users were baffled by the same wandering / drifting mouse pointer problems. There were many solutions, some over-the-top technical, including cracking the case open, cutting wires, placing an anti-static hardware bag over a metal clip... you get the idea.

Many times the most logical solution is right under one's nose. The mouse DRIVER! I thought of that because just the other day I was cleaning out crap for a garage sale of my own and tossed out a bunch of old diskettes, including an old DOS IBM Mouse Driver.

Others had opted to go with updating the mouse driver, and reported the fix worked. But I soon found that those generous enough to provide links did so in 2004, 5 and 6... and today those links are dead links. Back to Google, where

I downloaded and installed a newer touch pad driver. (Tp2aa11i) Following a mandated reboot, a new icon appeared in the SysTray, for the Synaptics Touch pad. I opened the new Mouse/Touch-Pad Pointer Properties and went through all of the new options. One option is to disable the Joystick pointer that looks like a pencil eraser, in the middle of the keyboard, or to change it's sensitivity. I disabled this little monkey and immediatley my drifting mouse pointer dilemma was solved!

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most recent picture of trayvon martin

Media manipulation. "We control the horizontal. We control the vertical." Whatever the truth is regarding the NSA story, we may never know it. What we can discern, based upon what we have been told, is that IF what we have been told were actually true, the Government could have used the "Person of Interest" tool PRISM to stop the Boston marathon bombers. They didn't. So either they knew about it and chose to do nothing, or they didn't know about it. I would tend to believe the latter.

As for Trayvon Martin, remember that photos don't tell us who was the good guy or who was the bad guy, but in my opinion, a media-photoshopped image counterbalances a thousand words.

Pictures and text from Trayvon Martin's mobile phone can be viewed here. Above all, we must remember that prejudicial opinions passed off as facts will never pass muster.

Mysteries of the Blog

I love to tinker and experiment - You may have noticed that  I have been using my blog*spot blog here as a "guinea pig" of sorts for all sorts of tinkering and testing. From Blog Cap to Cloud Computing, I've covered a lot of ground. I've also been watching and documenting traffic the search engines are sending my blog's way. Throw rhyme and reason out the window. And get offa that cloud!

Before I get to that, I still maintain there is some sort of "traffic cap" in place, one that has gotten all to predictable, one I believe is tied in with Google, Panda & Penguin. I'm not going to bore you with the data or line of reasoning.

Having typed that, I notice that many visits made to my blog via iPad and mobile phone are NOT recorded as if they never had happened! I know this because I enlisted friends with such devices to visit the site. Also, people who have me in their feed reader and view content via the RSS reader DO NOT show up on the stats!

Interested in gauging what (if any) local readership there might be (truthfully I have done ZERO to publicize my blog on a local basis) I injected a Mayoral poll. The results were less than spectacular. But then again, I never aimed to build a local audience. So that may be a good thing!

Infolinks Are Marvelous!

Make Money w/Infolinks! I've been blogging for a long time, longer than I can tell. A lot of bloggers discovered early on we could make a little extra money to help pay for some of all this by offering ads, just like the "big websites" of newspapers and magazines do. There have been a lot of services that have come and gone. Some have become "big dogs" over the years: I'm thinking of nuffnang, adhits and AdSense.

There's another player that has done very well in text-link type advertising: Infolinks! Unless your browser has been programmed to tune them out, you should see on this page many double-underlined words--- infolinks ads. Mouseover them and a small window appears offering additional information to click. A lot of weburfing netizens suffer from "banner blindness." They are so accustomed to seeing adverts on websites their eyes don't notice them anymore! But that double-Infolink-underline is always there to entice readers to click! Users seem to like Infolinks!

It's fairly easy to sign up for an Infolinks membership: registration is free!

Head on over to Infolinks now, while it's fresh in your mind! You'll be glad you did! (By all means let me know what you think - leave a comment!)

Remember Che!

It's his birthday! Post from the past.

Albany Mayoral Race 2013

A Simple Mayoral Poll - (Albany NY - June 2013)

Who will be the next Mayor of Albany NY?
	Kathy Sheehan
	Corey Ellis
	Marlon Anderson
	Alex Portelli
	Joe Sullivan
	Jesse Calhoun
	Somebody Else
pollcode.com free polls

And here are a few optional, additional questions. Please leave your answer(s) in either the Google or Facebook comment areas below! Thank-you!

Which candidate would be best for the City of Albany's economy?

Which candidate would be best for the City of Albany's cultural growth?

What is the most important issue in the Mayor's race?

What does Albany need most and which candidate is best-prepared to address that need?