“Counterfeiting” written for http://freetalklive.com/wiki/index.php?title=Counterfeiting

Sunday, February 12, 2006

 

In the realm of Big Govenment, this means replicating the Federal Reserve Note by other than the Bureau of Prinint and Engraving. Did you everwish as a child that all monompoly money was real and that you could take it and spend it for your whims and wishes. That’s the power of the Big GOvernment priniting press.

Unfortunately, as child you soon realized that no one would exchange your monopoly money for the candy, comic books, and trinkets that your heart desired. When Roosevelt took gold as money out of circulation and Nixon completed the crime by clsong the gold window, these United States of America and its citizens embark on another experiment. Could a currency float without backing.

Foe many factors, not the least of which is the dumbing down of that citizenry by Big Government education, the citizen never realized the fraud being perpetrated on them. Big Government runs a deficit? Ah hah, just print some more paper money. Big Government wants to fund a war in coutry X, Y, or Z? Ah hah, just print more paper. Big Government wants to buy soem more voters with a big social program? Ah hah, just print more paper. You’re childhood monopoly money dream is ebign lived by Big Government.

Now Austrian Economics, and even Keynsian economics, recognizes that paper money only has value by having people willing toexchange goods and services for it. Austrian economics would assert that the boom and bust business cycle is due to the mistakes people make based on unreliable information. This paper machine is one reason for those bad decision.

College students, a terrible misnomer since they rarely study anything, “learn”, if they bother to take Econ101, that money is first and foremost supposed to be a store of value. The US Federal Reserve Note is some store of vlaue; it lost 97% of its value in 30 years.

Oh yes, the piper must be paid. Someone is the victim in this scheme. That someone is anyone who holds a dollar when the new ones are issued.

Read http://www.lewrockwell.com/french/french8.html for more info!

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Why am I interested in wikis?

Saturday, February 11, 2006

A wiki is the essence of collaboration. If I put all my thinking in a wiki and I give others access to it, then together we can build on it. You would enter your comments or unique pages. Over time, it becomes the logical addition of all our collaborations.

The idea of a wiki has many implementations. Some free; some pay. Most on Linux; a few on Windoze; one on Mac; a couple that are platform agonistic. My goal is to have a free wiki running here at home to allow collaboration on
my projects. If I can do it, it becomes one of my marketable skills!

Thanks for the help. It really did work from my desk at work; the same setup as we tried! And, of course, it works from home here, but that’s not a real test because it was on the same subnet. It’s only usefull if it can be hosted to the internet globally.

 

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Testing my wiki in NJ from NC — failure

Saturday, February 11, 2006

Test results
1) For whatever reason, I couldn’t have a GTalk conversation riding on the Verizon Wireless BroadBand. Not to convict VWBB, but is the new thing in the equation.

2) You couldn’t “see” http://reinkefj.shancknet.nu but then neither could I from where it should have resolved to. Interesting? Since I did it at work one day, I suspect the DynDns Dynamic DNS service shacknet.nu. It’s free so I can complain too much.

3) Frustrating when you can not see what is happening. 

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Do you ever have different people address different Unique Value Propositions?

Friday, February 10, 2006

I personally have identified SEVEN different UVPs that I “offer”.

I have seven different resumes (actually 14 – 7 pairs of functional to hide my age and traditional chronological) to advance selling those UVPs.

Remember a search is about stages. You don’t go from “needing a new job” to “having a new job”. You start by “recognition”.

You have to progress to “this is what I can offer” or “this is what I want to do”. Here’s where the feedback loop begins.

You may be offering X and worst case there is no market for X. Or, the market for X doesn’t pay you what you want, want you where you want to be, or has other facets that you haven’t considered.

So, you HAVE to (imho and this is my pov and your mileage may vary) define what peanuts you want to peddle. You should ALSO define your geographic comfort zone and your financial comfort zone.

In my case, I said that my Geographic Comfort Zone was NYC/NJ because I have to be there for my mom. That was my number one constraint. And, because my my wife has the first dollar she ever earned and many of the ones after that, my money demands were secondary. So, I said my Financial Comfort Zone was: X$ for a 30 minute NJ drive, 150%ofX$ for more than 30 minutes, 200% for NYC (It’s basically a three hour round trip commute and you have no life but weekends), and would consider for the right Big Bucks oppty an intra area relo say to South Jersey, North Jersey, parts of upstate NY, CT,  or into NYC.

AND, then you have to look at every opportunity using that filter.

At times, I have been what I call an “interview slut”. I shamelessly was chasing opptys for the practice or desperation. As I got older and smarter, I just flat out didn’t want to waste my valuable time doing that.

Note well, my current job was geographically correct and the original job $ was below my target. I went on the interviews and they were impressed enough to up the ante to very close to my number. I felt good enough about the perks that I closed on it. It was about 6k off from my target.

So don’t be afraid to pursue something that appears not to fit. BUT don’t invest a lot into the obvious misfits.

Again free advice is worth what you pay for it. Your mileage may vary. 

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When some one asked me “Can you endorse me on LinkedIn?”, I replied … …

Friday, February 10, 2006

Sure. When I solicit endorsements, I usually prompt people with my “unique value proposition” and some thoughts about what I think they might think. Has to be done gently, but it helps people. And it gets what I am trying to accomplish across.

So for example, if you are trying to sell the value proposition “managing tech info into effective and efficient projects” then I’d talk about a technical project. If on the other hand, you are trying to sell the “ensuring that projects are achievable as well as effective and efficient”, I’d talk about “doing something hard for the business with the added global complications”.

So what are you trying to sell and what should we use as the example? It’s only 400 characters so we have to get it crisp as well as right.

 

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Using LinedIn for networking

Thursday, February 9, 2006

OK, it is time to see if LinkedIn can be used for anything other than a giant resume resource for headhunters. BTW it appear that Linkedin is going to try to monetize all the people that they have on it. A million people time $50/year is $50 mil. That will pay off a lot of VCs. Fourteen groups, with a standard email, and track the sucess. Sucess is measured by some a positive response. The first batch is 31 minus 5 excludes is 25. So far three positive.

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TECHNOLOGY: The wiki phenom

Thursday, February 9, 2006

Amazing how many useful ones there are out there.

WIKIs on the Internet

The Clearinghouse http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

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Putting the “PERSPECTIVE” wiki on my work notebook

Wednesday, February 8, 2006

Now you’d think since I got it on my personal notebook, this would be trivial. Wrong. Several bumps. Right now I’m stuck trying to add antoehr user. Sigh. Nothing’s every easy.

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Getting turkeys to recognize the value imperative.

Wednesday, February 8, 2006

We don’t work!

We generate value, retaining some small portion for ourselves. Anything that threatens our retention is a critical concern.

To a lesser extent when the relationship between value liberated and value retained changes, OR is PERCEIVED to change, the entire generation process is at risk. All we can count on is that retained value which is cleared in our bank. Bonuses, 401k contributions, options, perks, defered salary, and or anything else can be not given, called back, or changed.

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Used barnes & Noble gift card

Wednesday, February 8, 2006

What’s the big deal about that? Well, I wanted to get rid of these gift cards before I lose them. Argh. But what can people give a giant turkey nerd but a gift card for books. Hardware! But that’s a different rant. Anyway, I was writing my great American novel this moring on my handy dandy wiki when I used a phrase. I searched that phrase but could onl find it in Google’s Book search. It was very handy.

“the long sobs of the violins of autumn …”

http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0595006809&id=2xaKJiCVzN8C&pg=PA34&lpg=PA34&dq=%22the+long+sobs+of+the+violins+of+autumn+…%22&prev=http://books.google.com/books%3Fq%3D%2522the%2Blong%2Bsobs%2Bof%2Bthe%2Bviolins%2Bof%2Bautumn%2B…%2522%2B&sig=xIJjJQ6qMngBuzRvdOfSF9WhGic

So it gave me confirmation of the quote I wanted. (You wonder how I even remember that? I tell every one that I am a font of useless knowledge. Watch me play Jeopardy!)

So Google Books did make a sale for the publisher. They wouldn’t have gotten that sale without it.

Interesting?

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