When I was a kid I attended a high school assembly in observation of the Holocaust.   The other kids and I met an elderly couple in the local library.  The older gentleman was a concentration camp survivor who showed us his tattoo.  He was a little difficult to understand but his wife did most of the talking.  The man told a story of how when he first entered the camp they gave him rotten potatoes to eat.  He refused to eat them and instead gave them away to other prisoners.  After a couple of days he said he was so hungry that he went back to the prisoners to whom he had given the potatoes and told them that they each owed him a potato.  He cried and I remember thinking how many times he had told this story and still he was moved to tears.

We were made to read Anne Frank Diaries after.

I think that that was the first time ever that I was projected out of myself and started thinking about the things that other people go through.  I was made bigger by that assembly and smaller at the same time.  That was many years ago and I still feel compelled to visit Amsterdam and the Anne Frank House.

I haven’t made it so far but it’s still on my list of things to do.  Score one point for high school assemblies.

The above video is the only existing moving images of Anne Frank.

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John Harwood’s take on Obama’s stay in school speech.

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Really love the dictionary feature on NYtimes.com.  Highlight any text and a small icon appears over the word.  Click the icon and it brings up an Answers.com speaking dictionary .  Useful and saves time.  Cool.

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Well you can bet if both browsers aren’t working in the same way it’s some component that’s affecting both browsers.  I’m smart like that.  Turns out that I had installed Speed Download found it to be overkill and uninstalled it with  AppCleaner .  Although AppCleaner usually does a good job this time the install was incomplete and left Library/Internet Plugins/SpeedDownload Browser Plugin.plugin to cause problems.  Since it sat there until I  upgraded my browser it wasn’t easy connecting the problem to an app I deleted months ago.  Long story short.  Problem found.  Problem solved.

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First of all, don’t install Saft [aaargh!] to your Safari browser.  Classic piece of annoyance-ware that won’t leave you alone until you buy it and won’t uninstall without several hours of internet research.  Here are the relevant files to delete that don’t require you to gain root access to your computer which might end up causing you more grief than Saft.  (1) Delete Saft.app from your applications folder; (2) Delete ‘com.li.hao.saft.plist’ from your user preferences folder; ~/Library/Preferences/com.li.hao.saft.plist; (3) Delete Saft from your user applications support folder, ~library/Application Support/Saft; and (4) Delete Saft from your root (not user) folder, /Library/InputManagers/Saft.  None of these files should be hidden but in case you can’t find you can use this utility dotfiles or revealhiddenfiles to reveal and hide hidden mac .files without having to fool with the Terminal yourself.

update: Google lists Saft site as attack site.  Probably due to user complaints.

update: If you want to trick out safari then try glims.  It’s free.

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Peter Stark’s article for Outside Magazine, The Cold Hard Facts of Freezing to Death, not only pushes this post to the maximum allowed number of puns in a post it is awfully good writing.  I’m going to give you the opportunity to encounter the story in the way that I did, with a paucity of introduction.  Visit Amazon for more books by this author.

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I’m told that these are pictures of the first all female all black flight crew.  They operated flight 5202 from Atlanta to Nashville and flight 5106 from Nashville back to Atlanta for Atlantic Southeast Airlines on Thursday, Ferbraury 12, 2009. The crew included CPT Rachelle Jones, FO Stephanie Grant, FA’s Robin Rogers and Diana Galloway.  Youtube interview here.

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