“If you’re bored with life — you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things — you don’t have enough goals.”
You have to admire someone who can strike to the core with an idea. I love it.
TECH: JOESGOALS take a simple idea and make it elegant. Highly recommended.
Thursday, October 12, 2006
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JOBSEARCH: What a seeker should try for?
Thursday, October 12, 2006Employment Contract
Guaranteed Severance
Stock Options/Equity
Performance Bonus
Sign-On Bonus
Guaranteed First-Year Bonus
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FUN: Now it’s in poor taste but … …
Thursday, October 12, 2006… … never let it be said that people can’t make humor out of a sad situation.
http://reuters.myway.com/article/20061012/2006-10-12T015903Z_01_N11421400
_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-CRASH-NEWYORK-DC.html
I am sadden that the young fellow and his instructor were killed. The loss of anyone is a loss for all of us.
http://isu.indstate.edu/ilnprof/ENG451/ISLAND/
***Begin Quote***
John Donne
Meditation XVII: No man is an island…
“All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated…As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all: but how much more me, who am brought so near the door by this sickness….No man is an island, entire of itself…any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.”
***End Quote***
… … but some wag, who’s a yankee fan, just emailed me that …
the rumor is out that The Boss (George Steinbrenner), after the Yankee’s big choke again this year, is planning to give A-Rod, Torre, Cashman, the Big Unit, and everyone but Jeter and Mariano, a special gift of their own plane.
(Oh come on now, don’t tell me that you didn’t chuckle.)
It’s a human failing that in the midst of tragedy, we can make a joke out of anything serious.
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TECH: JIBBERJOBBER is living up to their promise!
Thursday, October 12, 2006I heard from a usually reliable source that JIBBERJOBBER is backing their assertion to give free service to vets with action.
(Honesty is such a rare commodity these days! We hear all the case where people don’t live up to their promises. They can’t in all modesty toot their own horn. But I can. Toot, toot, TOOT!)
I’m told that JibberJobber has extended their offer to to some disabled vets even thought they are not from Iraqi#2. Kudos to them for their stepping up to the plate.
Now if we could just get the politicians to do more than “lip service”.
Any way, applause in the direction of JIBBERJOBBER, please. They deserve it imho.
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JOBSEARCH: TECHNOLOGY: JIBBERJOBBER … a “job searcher’s pim” … NOT FREE!
Thursday, October 12, 2006DISCLAIMER ON
I don’t pretend to be a pro writer, tester, or reviewer. Nor do I play one on tv. I’m just a Big Turkey that has been in quite a few moccasins both in, out, and on the slippery slope into and out of transition. I have a real job (currently) and this just represents a fast roll thru the features.
DISCLAIMER OFF
Jibber Jobber (http://www.jibberjobber.com) notes:
(01) It’s not free. So already I don’t like it. I’m an Open Source kinda guy where you pay for support or extra services. As a general rule, because seekers are easily taken advantage of, I tell my baby turkeys NEVER to pay for anything. At least, until they are very sure of the value.
(02) It uses paypal which I don’t like, don’t trust, and am leery of.
(03) It’s bait and switch in that it gives you the full service and then downgrades you.
I don’t mean “bait n switch” like a used car dealer. I mean baitnswitch like when stuff reverts after a free trial. I really don’t like that type of marketing. Unless the time frame is long enough to get an accurate feel for the service. 14 days is probably too short. Services are like old shoes. They have to get broken in before one can decide they are if they are right for you. GOTOMYPC is my example of a good timeframes; XDRIVE is one of my bad ones. Putting in all your data represents a substantive effort in time and attention. I’d want to be REAL sure it wasn’t wasted.
And that’s in the first five minutes.
(04) Import contact not as robust as Outlook. No integration with Outlook.
(05) Didn’t pick up email on first try. Got it on the second.
(06) No integration to email like ACT or GoldMine.
(07) Isolation from other users. Unlike LinkedIn. Doesn’t link you automagically with people you know. If I join and you have my email, it should suggest a “vulcan mind meld”.
(08) Both Articles and Links is thin. Probably too soon to yell about that.
(09) No FAQ
(10) No ez feed back, like wordpress
(11) “Rat out friends to get free weeks” but no link to invite.
(12) No search to find JibberJobber-ees who are already registered. Link LinkedIn search.
(13) It’s web based, but does seem to allow you to extract your data. And, import it. I didn’t push it my 10k of alumni file to see if it gorked. (I’m a sport.)
(14) I like software that has thin and fat attributes. My favorite example of the model is WORDPRESS blog and BLOGDESK. (I have some picky points) But as an example of fat – thin or thin – fat client server software where you can work off line or on line or from a browser, it’s my favorite example of how I like my interoperability — yes! (Wonder if MSFT is listening?)
(15) No RSS type features a la what FACEBOOK was excoriated for doing. (I though it was good idea.)
(16) No recognition / integration of Social Networking sites (i.e., LinkedIn, MySpace).
(17) No recognition / integration of VOIP (i.e., Skype, Gizmo, YIMwVoice).
(18) No recognition / integration of IMs (i.e., YIM, MSM, ICQ, AOLIM).
(19) It implements a non-customizable sales funnel. Which is better than no funnel, like Outlook. But, not as good as the equivalent Act and others of that ilk.
(99) I did like the free offer to vets. My nephew-in-law works for the VA and probably will introduce a bunch of “freeloaders” to them. He was in Iraq#1 and I am VietNam era vet. We both have a very parochial feelings for the grunts coming back. (Why can’t we send politicians instead? We seem to have an oversupply of them.)
All in all I’m positively hopeful for the first entry in a new genre of software … the job pim.
P.S.: I still want a resume XML engine that can do “input” for me.
TECH: Use FEEDBLITZ to create a backup of your blog and GOOGLEDESKTOP to search it
Thursday, October 12, 2006The recent closure of a free bloging service made me feel sorry for those that have content there. Losing your stuff is horrendous and often irretrievable.
Given how stuff happens on the inet, one can’t even be sure that a paid service won’t stop working. Things break; strategies change; sites make decisions. All these things make you a hostage to who holds your data. Now, when I evaluate any new idea, my first concern is if I put effort “in”, can I get my stuff “out”. I’ve been suckered too many times.
So here’s a way to protect blog content that is important to you. (Some blogs I read, it obvious that it’s an afterthought and losing it would be no big deal. I even have one of those for my fellow alums where I post Jasper Sports stories. My fellow alums felt that it cluttered up my ezine. And, so, I created a free blog for that genre. If I lose it, no big deal.
BUT what about content I care about? For example, I want to self publish this blog at the end of the year, and give my Mom a book. I think she always wanted me to be “somebody”, make “something” of myself, or fulfill my “potential”. I figure a nice bound book would fool her into thinking I was an author. That’s pretty somebody-ish. She can say “my son the author”. Not as good as my son the Donald, the doctor, the lawyer, the indian chief. But it’ll have to do.
So, to prevent losing anything and to have the input to self publish, I use FEEDBLITZ to collect my blog postings each day and send me an email. I use a gmail account for that purpose. This creates TWO backups of my blog. As a side benefit, I can use GOOGLEDESKTOP to search the local copy or GMAIL to search the mail archive of it.
That’s me Mister Belt and Suspenders!
You might want to consider it.
Now about becoming an Indian Chief, is it painful?
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