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While looking into why my laptop was taking so long to startup windows, I noticed a program, GoogleUpdate.exe, running. I wasn’t too concerned because I use GoogleDesktop, but since I had disabled that at startup I started wondering why it was still there.

Checking the usual places, I fired up msconfig to see if it was listed anywhere and nothing. Looked in services.msc, nothing there either.

So after a quick search, I ran across this page which shows that GoogleUpdate.exe gets run as a scheduled task which runs at user login. This is also how Apple installs their product updater. This means that this is another way that software can be set to run at startup, even though it isn’t in any of the normal startup locations.

Fall is wrapping up and the leaves are turning colors. It’s time to start getting the house wrapped up and ready for winter.

From DianaLoomans

If I had my child to raise over again,
I’d finger paint more, and point the finger less.
I’d do less correcting, and more connecting.
I’d take my eyes off my watch, and watch with my eyes.
I would care to know less, and know to care more.
I’d take more hikes and fly more kites.
I’d stop playing serious, and seriously play.
I’d run through more fields, and gaze at more stars.
I’d do more hugging, and less tugging.
I would be firm less often, and affirm much more.
I’d build self-esteem first, and the house later.
I’d teach less about the love of power,
And more about the power of love.

Your result for What Your Taste in Art Says About You Test…

Simple, Progressive, and Sensual

13 Ukiyo-e, 5 Islamic, 1 Impressionist, -2 Cubist, -14 Abstract and -7 Renaissance!

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I can’t take credit for this equation, but when I woke up this morning (with 3 hours of sleep) I realized that I needed to share
this.

[W + (D-d)] x TQ
M x NA

The model is broken down using 6 immediately identifiable factors; weather, debt, time since Christmas, time since failing our new
year.s resolutions, low motivational level and feeling of a need to take action.

W . Weather

This takes account of the depression in weather systems which affects the UK around January, bringing with it low dark cloud (making the days feel shorter), cold wet and sleet conditions and
very little sunlight.  After the Christmas break we are forced to go outside particularly in the mornings, increasingly exposing ourselves to the unpleasant weather conditions.

D . Debt

The amount of debt we.ve accumulated over the Christmas period and the ability to pay all or most of this debt at our next pay day. the greater the difference between the amount owed and the amount paid off the greater the depression.  Also we are stretched by the pressure of January sales and concerned that our next pay day won.t cover the deficit.

T . Time since Christmas

Recharging during the Christmas bank holidays gives us a positive feeling towards work and new plans but this feeling begins to wear off by the third week of January.  It could be a good
time to make concrete plans to look forward to, like a holiday.

Q . Time since failed quit attempt

Having joined the millions of people who have made New Year’s resolutions to curb their unwanted behavior, within an average of 6-7 days the majority of people will return to their habits. 
This will result in a sense of failure which knocks confidence, but this could be reversed if they begin to make changes again.

M . General motivational levels

Following party season, it dawns on us that the fun is over and all that we have postponed for the festivities returns to haunt us.  Ritual and domestic duties see the exciting plans and enthusiasm of early January go out the window.

NA . The need to take action

This refers to the human need to look forward to positive things.  The realization that the party is over makes now an ideal time to organize something to look forward to provide a motivating focus, for example saving for a holiday.

I’m a little confused. Let me see if I have this straight:

• If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you’re “exotic, different.”
• If you grow up in Alaska eating moose burgers, you’re a quintessential American story.

• If your name is Barack, you’re a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.
• If you name your kids Willow, Trig and Track, you’re a maverick.

• If you graduate from Harvard Law School, you are unstable.
• If you attend 5 different colleges before graduating, you’re well grounded.

• If you spend 3 years as a community organizer, become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor, spend 8 years as a State Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people, become chairman of the state Senate’s Health and Human Services committee, spend 4 years in the United States Senate representing a state of 13 million people while sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran’s Affairs committees, you don’t have any real leadership experience.
• If your total resume is: local weather girl, 4 years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people, 20 months as the governor of a state with only 650,000 people, then you’re qualified to become the country’s second highest ranking executive.

• If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising 2 beautiful daughters, all within Protestant churches, you’re not a real Christian.
• If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and left your disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you’re a Christian.

• If you teach responsible, age appropriate sex education, including the proper use of birth control, you are eroding the fiber of society.
• If, while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only, with no other option in sex education in your state’s school system, while your unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant, you’re very responsible.

• If your wife is a Harvard graduate lawyer who gave up a position in a prestigious law firm to work for the betterment of her inner city community, then gave that up to raise a family, your family’s values don’t represent America’s.
• If you’re husband is nicknamed “First Dude”, with at least one DWI conviction and no college education, who didn’t register to vote until age 25 and once was a member of a group that advocated the secession of Alaska from the USA, your family is extremely admirable.

Your result for The Steampunk Style Test…

The Gadgeteer

14% Elegant, 69% Technological, 13% Historical, 56% Adventurous and 40% Playful!

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In recent years there has been a lot of hub-bub about Somali-Muslim cab drivers refusing to transport passengers from the MSP/STP airport that are carrying alcohol or are suspected on being inebriated, based on religious beliefs.

On September 10th, 9 of these cabbies appealed their licence revocation and the court agreed with the MAC and upheld the rule of suspension if the cabbies refused to serve people based on their beliefs.

I find it ironic that when it comes to pharmacists refusing to fill birth control and the morning after pill, they seem to get to exercise their religious beliefs (here and here).