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Today I’m mooching power and connectivity from my sister’s house since we still have no electricity following Irene’s visit this past weekend. I’m thankful our parents taught us to share!
As I set myself up here, I turned on a light. After a few days of absent-mindedly flipping switches and having nothing happen, I realized that like many of us I took that immediate glow for granted. Of course, this promoted a thought I’d like to share. Continue reading
Filed under Helpful Hints
OK, so maybe it’s not red carpets every night and maybe I don’t put on a tux or white dinner jacket each evening to dine. However, like most of you, I have a life. I have friends with whom I stay in touch beyond Facebook. I have business associates with whom I correspond beyond email. I sometimes need to express myself in more than 140 characters and sometimes people want to take what I have to say, give it some thought, and answer me back in a few sentences. I have a family and occasionally we speak. The funny thing is, it turns out I’m not the only person like this and the folks like me are of all ages.
What’s promoting the rant? Continue reading
Filed under Reality checks, Thinking Aloud
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Over the weekend, S&P downgraded the credit rating of the United States, something that was unthinkable not such a short time ago. This morning, markets worldwide are tumbling. As you know, we don’t talk about politics here unless those political activities bring us enlightenment from a business perspective and I can’t think of a more perfect example than this.
To reduce this to its simplest form, the credit downgrade was caused (and I’m NOT placing blame on either side here) by our “leaders'” inability to govern. The effects of this are mostly unfelt yet, but the ones we’re already feeling are pretty bad. But let’s keep it to business, shall we? Continue reading
Filed under Helpful Hints, Reality checks
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