TECH SERVICE:Testing WORDPRESSDOTCOM — test #1
April 30th, 2007
Try to get data for the WordPress support staff. (They’re the best.)
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TECH SERVICE:Testing WORDPRESSDOTCOM — test #1
Monday, April 30, 2007Try to get data for the WordPress support staff. (They’re the best.)
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RANT: Serfs! Clear the road for his highness the Guv!!
Monday, April 30, 2007DRUDGE: CORZINE MOTORCADE CAUGHT SPEEDING — ON ROAD TO RECOVERY!
Corzine Leaves Hospital After Accident
The governor of New Jersey acknowledged today that he was negligent in not wearing a seatbelt.
By DAVID KOCIENIEWSKI
Published: April 30, 2007
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No one in the motorcade used emergency lights, as his driver had been doing at the time of the accident. They kept to a pace of about 70 miles per hour, even though the posted limit is 55 on the stretch of Interstate 295 that leads to Drumthwacket, the governor’s official mansion in Princeton, where Mr. Corzine will spend the next stage of his recovery.
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What a joke! Hope everyone remembers this when they get their next fund-raising invitation labeled seatbelt or speeding (aka a ticket)!
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LINKEDIN: Why some people conceal their connections
Monday, April 30, 2007>the underlying theory behind the concealment of connections to invitees.
Here’s a swag:
I believe I have seen (can’t prove it) a recruiter create “strawmen”. A fake online identity in LinkedIn. The profile was relatively complete. But, when you ping the person, you get no response. Since this particular “strawmen” and I were relative tight when we worked together. And, I’m kind of distinctive (gobble gobble big fat old turkey are easily identified), I’d have expected a response. There was no other introduction path to him other than thru this recruiter, the recruiter had contacts cloaked (so I couldn’t confirm others), and nobody responded to an inmail. Eventually the profile was deleted. So there’s one reason, “fraud”.
My lawyer has a LinkedIn persona, but cloaks his clients for fear of violating privilege.
A VC I know cloaks lest he give away anything accidentally
>It seems that the purpose of networking is to get and give contacts.
I don’t agree with the premise.
My purpose in networking is to “learn stuff”. That maybe to give and receive contacts, but not necessarily.
I believe that the PRIME DIRECTIVE of networking is to first seek to understand “stuff” (i.e., what can I do that others value; wisdom in using it to achieve my goals; how to establish the “weak ties” that are so valuable), then to be understood (i.e., let me tell you what I think I need).
The law of weak ties says something like “people are generally good; if they can help you, then they will; sometimes you need a spider’s web of “listening posts” around the globe that when trigger get you the needed information; that gets you a new job”. So, if I know what you want, say via a networking profile, (mine is at http://home.comcast.net/~v2y2r0n27rhj6y/DATA/Reinke_2005_networking_profile.htm), and I hear something that “fits”, then I’ll contact you.
So for example, when I am networking with a newly axed turkey, I get his networking profile and put it on my wall by the phone at work and my home office. (I use it as a reminder that I too will soon be out of a job and to pay attention to what is important!) We may never talk again, but as long as that profile is on my wall, that turkey has a chance of hearing from me.
That’s what I think networking is about.
Now some people will do nothing, but most will try to help. (In all the time I have been doing this, I have only had 4 people tell me to “buzz off”. Of course, I have put them on my “S” list. … … “S” is for “Special”!)
As long as you’re “easy to do business with”.
In terms of LinkedIn, even the Zero Help people, by the fact that they connect, even if those connects are hidden, they have made their contacts findable by you in search. You can connect to them with an InMail for a few bucks. So, unlike the old days, where Zero Help could frustrate you from looking their rolodex. With LinkedIn, that can’t happen. So Zero Help IS valuable, in that, his network is in LinkedIn!!!
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TECHNOLOGY: My “ftl” idea
Monday, April 30, 2007It’s no secret that http://www.freetalklive.com is may favorite podcast. It’s the number one podcast on podcastalley. At least it was last month.
And, we don’t get their radio broadcast here in Central Jersey. It would be a good libertarian outreach and may we could change some minds about big Gooferment.
As a EE, I know that the FCC allows low power local radio. So I had a vision of FTL everywhere on low power boxes.
When FTL was live, the inet feed would be passed to the transmitter. Other times, it would play a loop of the weeks shows.
6 nights a week times 3 hours = 18 hours of live content.
7 days per week times 24 hours equals 168 hours. Minus the 18 live hours. Equals 150 hours of rebroadcast. So about 8 rebroadcasts in a week.
You’d have to figure the schedule so that each time block played a different section:
So, now I need an appliance that will, given a stream, transmit it at a low power. I’m assuming that a pc properly setup could either pass along the live feed or create a stream from the downloaded mp3 files.
Maybe FTL could put some “special commercials” in the feed. Like, “You are listening to a (live / recorded) broadcast of FTL over low power community radio from your neighbor who thought this was entertaining.”
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MONEY: Retirement risks
Monday, April 30, 2007http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2007/04/26/
ten-years-left-for-social-security/
Ten years left for Social Security
By Michael Hampton
Posted: April 26, 2007 3:01 am
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By 2017 Social Security will begin paying out more in benefits than it collects in taxes and will have to begin redeeming bonds from the Social Security Trust Fund. Worse, Medicare is expected to cross the same line later this year, resulting in a massive fiscal crisis.
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Well, this certainly has to be added to the list of risk that the retiring baby boomers face.
Inflation is always the number one risk. You have to worry about a “wealth tax” that simultaneously devalues your savings, reduces the buying power, raises prices, and (usually) decreases your Social Security Insurance (a Ponzi fraud on a mammoth scale) earnings (i.e., the Gooferment calculates the inflation rate that it has to pay you based on?). Now you have to throw on the concern that you’ll get nothing for your SSI “contributions”! Look for lower benefits, increased taxation of benefits, means testing, making it more into a welfare program, and — when the Ponzi scheme breaks — the Gooferment walks away from the obligation.
That might be the thing that brings out the pitchforks and torches. Like during the French Revolution, that might not be a good time to be an aristocrat.
“Let them eat cake” might be superceded by “the Social Security trust Fund is broke”!
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TECH SERVICE: WORDPRESS DOT COM comments off
Monday, April 30, 2007It’s come to my attention that for some reason “comments are off”. I don’t think I did anything to close off communication. This has turned into a real “monologue” I just thought no one had anything to say back. The last comment was entered 21 April 07. I have feedback into the operators. It’s free so one cna’t complain. Argh!
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TECH SOFTWARE: Joomla is content management that covers a lot of ground
Monday, April 30, 2007http://www.joomla.org/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,1/
Cutting Edge Content Management
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Joomla! is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems on the planet. It is used all over the world for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Joomla! is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable.
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I think the blogging metaphor was a good first step.
But when one thinks of the web as a personal tool, you need more. Sometimes you need a simple blog, sometimes forums, maybe a wiki, and of course there are always websites and webpages.
What attracts me to “content management” is that it is sort of the web version of the “unified field theory”. You can pull all you ever create into it, never lose a bit or a byte, and reuse it as you see fit. You can’t be held hostage to an ISP by free space (space is now so cheap), a WSP (that induces you to use its free tool that locks your data, or any number of lesser lockins by client-side software (i.e., Publisher, FrontPage).
It’s more work than a free blog at WordPress. But, as I am learning, free can be very very expensive.
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PRODUCTIVITY: free is very very expensive
Monday, April 30, 2007http://www.carolynnduncan.com/2007/04/27/
wow-weeblycom-is-a-sexy-business/
Wow! Weebly.com Is a “Sexy Business”
Writing by olynnduncan on Friday, 27 of April , 2007 at 1:55 pm
the carolynn blog
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What options does a small business have to get an easy, cheap, non-blog web presence? Sans web skills? Good luck.
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May I call your attention to “Google Apps”?
http://www.google.com/a/smallbiz/
I used it to “throw up a business idea” quickly and cheaply. My expense was registering a few domain names.
(My hero is the fellow who made grazillions selling 5 biz ideas a day. He got it going and sold out. The inet model: get a spark, throw up something, hockey stick the popularity, and sell it off.)
You asked for alternatives. Google Apps is still free. But I have reservations in NOT paying the piper for an idea. Don’t think you want to be beholden to a free service? A cheap equivalent at reputable hosting service is chump change (under a hundred a year).
Just a thought.
ALSO: I looked a Weebly a while ago. I’m not sure you want to take the Weebly route, or for that matter the Google App one either.
Your time is valuable. You’ll spend a lot of it developing your “content”. Then it, and all the effort getting it right, is locked up on a free sites.
No, I have already paid tuition at that school. In my case, I developed a “good enough” site for my consulting business using a WSP’s free web site building tool. When I merged all my stuff on various WSPs to get control and save a lot of money (Some WSP prey on the novices and really stick it to them!), I paid special attention to my sites that were in some one’s proprietary format. (It was NOT HTML.) And, this one site built with their tool did have HTML that look moveable. And, it was. I moved it and everything was hunkey dory at the new site. Until I pulled the plug at the old site, and my modest effort was gone. Apparently, stuff pointed to the old WSP. Argh! Now, I don’t use the WSP tools. The WSP is paid for raw service. I build in NVU and such.
So, I’m not sure that “free” isn’t very very expensive.
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JOBSEARCH: Think like an owner of your own services business
Sunday, April 29, 2007FROM YAHOO ANSWERS
Home > Business & Finance > Careers & Employment > Question
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I am lookin for a job. What jobs do you think are good for a 16 year old?
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McDonalds — if for no other reason than you’ll learn some skills (i.e., on time; satisfying a supervisor; dealing with Colleagues; interacting with the public) — you get appreciation for money and how hard it is to earn — and, why you need an education that leads to a career! There’s a bundle of “foreigners” who want to eat your lunch. Breakfast and dinner too if you let them.
At 16, depending upon the local diktats, you’re choices may be limited, or you may have to seek government permission. I hustled odd jobs starting about when I was twelve. Went to a “real job” when I was sixteen; had to get “working papers” — what a farce. Started working full time as a sophomore in college.
Make a list of everyone you know. A real paper list. Name, address, phone number. Then, talk to each one about (1) what they did at your age; (2) any opportunities that they know; (3) ask their advice. Take detailed notes. Write a real USMAIL thank you note. (No joke; get in the habit early.)
See your first real job is figuring out how the whole “job” process. You’re the CEO, CFO, and janitor for “You Incorporated — the Me, myself, and I division”. Now how are you going to make your payroll? Think like an owner of your own services business. That’s what we all really are.
Let us know how you make out.
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TECHNOLOGY: What do you do without power?
Sunday, April 29, 2007http://south-brunswick.blogspot.com/2007/04/power-glitch-in-kendall-park-again.html
Power glitch in Kendall Park again
We had some off and on power this morning.
Lessons learned:
(1) Inet router and stuff needs ups.
(2) Other upses didn’t work.
(3) No news coverage.
(4) Need account and phone numbers.
(5) Cordless phones won’t work.
(6) Need a plan.
(7) Mark local radio stations on the handheld radio.
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LIBERTY: the Alliance for the Separation of School & State
Sunday, April 29, 2007http://www.schoolandstate.org/home.htm
The Alliance for the Separation of School & State
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We believe parents, and not the state, should be in charge of their children’s education. That control may take many forms and levels of involvement, but the state will never be part of the picture.
If this seems like an impossible idea, consider that 8 million children already learn free of state control. We’re not starting from scratch here. The snowball of educational independence is already rolling.
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Sounds like a good idea to me.
It’s not going to happen over night. I took decades to get into this mess. It’ll take decades to get out.
I think that the idea that I wrote up back in the Hands Across New Jersey tax revolt days is still the way to go. That was split the problem into: (1) Separate who does the educating. (2) How much money is stolen to pay for this. People need time to adapt.
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INTERESTING: Study claims women paid 20% less than men
Sunday, April 29, 2007Study claims women paid 20% less than men – I say HOGWASH!
April 25th, 2007 by Chief Executive Restaurant Recruiter
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You see, Larry was discussing a new study that had just come out (and he compared it with an older study) about the disparity in pay between men and women. Of course the study was backed by scientific method and statistical analysis. I’ve always believed the old saying that there are lies, damned lies, then statistics. This report reminded me of that fact.
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Like most “studies”, they are often pushing “an agenda”. And, they get us focusing on the “wrong end” of the proverbial stick.
Specifically, I don’t know if women are discriminated against because of their sex. I have seen lost of situations where that might be true. But for me to deliberate and render a verdict that this is so presumes lots of facts not in evidence. The old Johari window has a lot of quad 4 area.
I like Larry’s argument from economic theory that says if women worked cheaper, why wouldn’t a business hire all women. That nicely disposes of that study.
But, again, that’s presupposes facts I don’t have.
I think the real key is to become a society of small businesses. If you’re your own CEO, it’s hard to claim discrimination held you from the top. You’re the top and the bottom at the same time.
That’s what we need to encourage. We’ll have to change the Gooferment to get it out of the way. Then we will have fulfilled the Jeffersonian ideal of everyman a king.
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MONEY: Lose your cell phone; go to bankruptcy?
Saturday, April 28, 2007http://finance.yahoo.com/expert/article/millionaire/30108
Ten Steps to Cell Phone Security
by David Bach
Posted on Monday, April 23, 2007, 12:00AM
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Americans love their cell phones — most of us can’t live without them. Yet the Better Business Bureau reports that cell phone providers are the No. 1 cause of complaints among consumers. This is mostly due to incorrect billing, confusing fees, unexpected charges, and deceptive contracts. These can certainly add up, but I was shocked to learn that the most significant — even devastating — monetary damage can occur when your cell phone is lost or stolen.
A $26,000 Cell Phone Bill
A recent CBS 5 ConsumerWatch report by Jeanette Pavini profiles the plights of three consumers in California — all of whom had their cell phones stolen and were left stuck with a huge bill for unauthorized charges.
The report told the story of San Francisco resident Wendy Nguyen, who was shocked to receive a bill for $26,000 after her cell phone was unknowingly stolen before she left for an overseas vacation. Cingular held her responsible for charges incurred after the phone was taken, up until the time Wendy discovered the theft and called the carrier.
She was able to prove via airline and passport documents that she was out of the country and couldn’t possibly have made the unauthorized calls from San Francisco during that time, but Cingular still held Wendy accountable for all charges.
Not only that, they advised Wendy that if she couldn’t pay the bill she should consider filing for bankruptcy!
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What a disaster!
If you have a cell phone, then you should read this.
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TECH SOFTWARE: DRUPAL a true content management system
Saturday, April 28, 2007About Drupal
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Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website. Tens of thousands of people and organizations have used Drupal to power scores of different web sites, including
* Community web portals
* Discussion sites
* Corporate web sites
* Intranet applications
* Personal web sites or blogs
* Aficionado sites
* E-commerce applications
* Resource directories
* Social Networking sites
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Maybe I’ve outgrown blogging. It doesn’t wow me like it once did. It hasn’t engendered or created the cooperative conversation I was hoping it would.
I know I am disillusioned with websites. They are static snapshots of the past. They don’t integrate of play nice with other uses.
Wikis are a content system of sorts but hmmm they don’t seem to jump up and create conversations.
Perhaps, I need more?
PRODUCTIVITY: Where do you spend your minutes and what do you have to show for it?
Saturday, April 28, 2007From The Electronic Recruiting News In Email_070427
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It’s like being thirsty in the middle of the ocean for most people. The explosion of sources of information leaves a bewildering set of problems for disciplined professionals. They boil down to “what is the best way to spend my time?” Certainly, reading 500 blogs is not going to make you a successful recruiter. The right five, however, might.
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Where do you spend your time productively?
That’s a tough question. IMHO, we humans don’t even know where we spend our time. Unless you’re a lawyer with a sophisticated time tracking for billing purposes system, no one has accurate data to work from. Most systems I’ve seen and worked with are “time charging” mechanisms. They are really about charging your time to some project or other. The accuracy of that is suspect at best and a joke at worst.
So how do you measure your time spent?
I have a rut of things that I do on a daily basis so I know those. The rest is in the hands of the Universe.
But, it would be nice to know where one is “spending” their minutes (like a cell phone bill) and it would be nice to know the ROI on those minutes.
Periodically, when I feel I have “lost my way”, I reassess what I am doing. I dump some habits and try to start new ones. I use that aforementioned rut as my friend. Getting in a good rut is productive; a bad one disaster.
It’s a terrible paradigm. But I have no other. Maybe that’s what twitter could be?
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MONEY: authentically gold-colored zinc ‘n’ copper clad tokens
Friday, April 27, 2007http://www.bullnotbull.com/archive/mandrake.html
American Federal Reserve Token
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AFARTs are brilliant 100% pure, authentically gold-colored zinc & copper clad tokens, engineered by the New American Empire and backed by the full faith and taxing power of inflation. Helicopter drops of the new FARTs are scheduled for neighborhoods soon.
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I think this is a stitch. Remember “helicopter ben” said in his conformation hearing that in a faltering economy he’d drop money by helicopter to keep the economy moving. That’s all the politicians had to hear. That told them that he make sure that they’d have all the money they could possibly spend.
Now where do you think all that “value” is going to come from? Yup, you guessed it. From us. The people. The schmoes. Anyone who has anything dollar denominated. Cash, savings, and such! They get to pay a special “inflation tax”.
Maybe that’s why they are so touchy about NORFED.
The Austrian economists teach us that fiat currency is the originator of the boom bust cycle. Eroding the value of the franc was factor in tumbling the French Kings.
Looking at — the Baby Boomer (losing productivity and putting them on the dole), Social Security Ponzi (decreasing workers will pay higher and higher taxes), unfunded pension plans in federal, state, local, and business (the promised benefits won’t be there), and the expanding Medicare and Drug benefits (that won’t be possible given the financial constriction) — you wonder where it ends.
Toyota displaces GM. College graduates can’t find work. College debt hangs on them.
Where does it end?
N.B. When we laugh at the “sovereigns”, they shrink in stature to be just men. That’s what they are. Fallible men!
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MONEY: Profits rose; guess where that come from … … your pocket?
Friday, April 27, 2007http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070427/D8OP24H80.html
Pricing Software Could Reshape Retail
Apr 27, 12:16 PM (ET)
By BRIAN BERGSTEIN
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A large retail chain had a problem. It sold three similar power drills: one for about $90, a purportedly better one at $120 and a top-tier one at $130. The higher the price, the more the store profited.
But while drill know-it-alls flocked to the $130 model and price-fretters grabbed its $90 cousin, shoppers often ignored the middle one.
So the store sought advice from a new breed of “price-optimization” software from DemandTec Inc. What followed offers us a clue about important shifts that technology is bringing to retail shopping.
After analyzing an array of variables, including sales history and competitors’ prices, the software suggested cutting the middle drill to $110.
That might have made the top drill seem more expensive. But drill aficionados still were fine shelling out $130. Sales of that drill didn’t change. However, now that the $90 version seemed less of a bargain, the store sold 4 percent fewer low-end drills – and 11 percent more of the mid-range model. Profits rose.
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So how do you know when you’re getting hosed? Or, drilled?
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RANT:Tax money being well-spent
Friday, April 27, 2007http://wcbstv.com/local/local_story_117163117.html
Apr 27, 2007 5:07 pm US/Eastern
Porn Star Jameson Shows Up On N.J. School TV
Parents Furious; Private Firm Hired To Find Culprit
Andrew Kirtzman
Reporting
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(CBS) UNION CITY, N.J. Some eyebrows were raised at the Union City Board of Education recently. Officials discovered one or more employees have been watching pornography on school televisions.
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Tax money being well-spent.
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JOBSEARCH: Interviewing, no college degree
Friday, April 27, 2007Interviewing, no college degree
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May I suggest that you have good reasons for not having a degree? You just can’t express them.
To get past that hurdle, you need to be ready for the question. Some acceptable answers MIGHT be: money (“my family was dirt poor and they need my help”); unnecessary (“sales doesn’t require a degree because there’s no Bachelor of Sales; should be; so I learned on my own”); or even temperament (“sitting listening to lectures and taking tests is not how to learn; I’ve done this on my own. See here.”)
Just as now there are “extension schools” that give test with credit for life experience, you need to have EVIDENCE that you have the equivalent. Use your references. Have you written a book? Articles? Love letters … … err, no that won’t work unless you Liz barret browning.
In getting a job, you have to engage in a series of conversations that fully explore what is really required, and what is someone’s nice to have. When I interviewed people, I used to take a College Degree as evidence of an ability to stick with a four year project, self-motivate, and convince a variety of people that the candidate knew something. Try the same tactic. Identify what the buyer thinks that a college degree means, and give EVIDENCE that you have that quality.
You do have a BRAG BOOK don’t you? For every claim on your resume, you should have evidence in your “brag book” to support it.
Note that “evidence” does not mean you saying “X” it’s something tangible that proves you have it. Think what do I show Judge Judy. “Dumb is forever”. So, if I put on my resume (heaven forbid! this is an example) that I am a Sudoku player, then I should have a blue ribbon prize for winning my town’s contest. The entry on the resume is a claim. The certificate is EVIDENCE. Me saying it in the interview is merely repeating my claim. How does the interviewer know you are telling the truth?
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UPDATE: On 30 April 07, my answer was designated “best”!
Hey, reinkefj, look what you got!
Congratulations, you’ve got a best answer and 10 extra points!
Your answer to the following question really hit the spot and has been chosen as the best answer:
Interviewing, no college degree…?
Go ahead, do your victory dance. Celebrate a little. Brag a little. Then come back and answer a few more questions!
Thanks for sharing what you know and making someone’s day.
The Yahoo! Answers Team
Note: This is me doing my “best” dance!
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TECH SERVICE: YAHOO is responding very poorly today now
Friday, April 27, 2007FWIW, it usually is snappy. Today it feels like it is timing out. Sigh!
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RANT: employers who refused to cover medical costs
Friday, April 27, 2007http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/arti
cles/2007/04/26/standing_up_for_fairness_on_business_tax_ref
orm/?rss_id=Boston+Globe+–+Op-ed+columns
Standing up for fairness on business tax reform
By Joan Vennochi, Globe Columnist | April 26, 2007
HOUSE SPEAKER Salvatore DiMasi is at his best when he stands up for fairness.
title
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When Beacon Hill took up healthcare reform, DiMasi insisted business must share the cost of expanding coverage to the uninsured. He did it, he said, because it wasn’t fair to force taxpayers to cover for employers who refused to cover medical costs for their employees.
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Argh!
Doesn’t the author realize who is using force here? It’s the gooferment. Maybe it’s the writer’s gooferment education kicking in, but first the gooferment causes a problem and then they rush in to “fix” it. And, in the process cause more problems.
:-)
“Benefits” came about as a result of the WW2 Wage and Price controls.
Business don’t “give” benefits, they pay for them. Pay dearly.
Business never “pay for” anything. They are really artificial constructs to pass stuff along. The business passes a cost along to a buyer, a supplier, or an employee. EITHER they earn a profit based on doing this or they go out of business.
So let’s examine “benefits”.
Having had my own business, and probably will again in the future, (after all no one hire OLD people anymore), what an employee earns is only a part of their total compensation. If a business “gives” the employee “benefits”, they could pay them less in salary. Don’t forget the “employer’s share of social security”! That comes out of the employees total comp too. If I’m an employer with something that needs doing, I include the cost of the labor. That cost is loaded with what it costs me; not what they employee’s check says.
Also, since the Taxachusetts mandatory health benefit will be a tax on business, who will pay it? Not who writes the check, but who going to get less? Think of it like a balloon. Hold it tight and push on one side. It expands on the other side. Like conservation of momentum! The business just passes stuff along. So, if the business has to pay more, who is going to pay more or get less? It’s truly a zero sum game.
When business have no way to pass along a cost (i.e., the market won’t pay more for their product, suppliers won’t charge less, or employees won’t work for less), they close up shop. No margin; no mission.
I wonder how the politicians will NEXT fix the “economy” or the “unemployment problem”?
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RANT: Gambling is ok as long as the Gooferment gets its cut
Thursday, April 26, 2007Today I was listening to the radio and I heard a NYC radio station advertising OTB. It was touting its bet by phone service with “internet betting coming soon”!
Then I see this!
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Subject: A bill to repeal the online gambling ban
Pressure on Congress works. People all over the Internet, including DC Downsizers, have been pressuring Congress to repeal the ban on transferring money to online gambling sites.
We’re starting to see a response.
Representative Barney Frank, the new chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, has pledged to introduce legislation in the next couple of weeks to repeal the ban.
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Argh!
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JOBSEARCH: Develop your IM Network
Thursday, April 26, 2007http://www.dailyblogtips.com/develop-your-im-network/
Develop your IM Network
By Daniel on Web Tools
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Having a network of contacts and friends over Instant Messaging software is essential. Sometimes you might need someone to check a feature on your website, other times you might need a tip to solve a technical problem. In those situations it is always a good idea to have someone that you can chat in real time.
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While he’s referring to techies to look for tech tips, it would seem to me that your virtual search team, psuedo Board of Directors, and key networking contacts might be useful to have racked up ready to go.
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TECH HARDWARE: My USR wireless access point settings
Thursday, April 26, 2007LUGGABLE’s Windows Networking errors out on permissions. I plugged in the @HOME in the simple network setup. Doesn’t show anything.
Could the problem be that the router has a blank for a domain name?
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RANT: Laws for you, not them
Thursday, April 26, 2007http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55383
Laws for you, not them
Posted: April 26, 2007
Joseph Farah is founder, editor and CEO of WND
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They pass laws with no intention of obeying them themselves. It happens every day in America – in city council chambers, in state legislatures and in the nation’s Capitol.
It’s too bad Corzine got hurt.
But it’s a good illustration of the way arrogant elected officials put themselves above the law.
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I think that the seat belt law should be repealed immediately. As well as speed limit, cell phone, and all the other “laws” (I object to calling what men do a “law”. Gravity, now there’s a law!) that are aimed at “us” and not “them”.
I’d allow in my court as an absolute defense that a diktat from some capitol or another was null and void if (1) the “leaders” didn’t have to obey it; (2) if it wasn’t uniformly enforced and universally enforced; and (3) there has to be a “victim” (i.e., a real flesh and blood person that gets hurt).
Now you know why I won’t be a judge!
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