INTERESTING: Roadmap to Success?

Thursday, March 13, 2008

FROM A RECENT VENDOR EMAIL

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Roadmap to Success Series: Transitioning to Managed Services
? Register for Kaseya’s Roadmap to Success Series!

Managed Services is a hot topic within the reseller, systems integrator and service provider community. It is a lucrative business model that enhances customer satisfaction by improving IT infrastructure management while increasing service provider margins. It is a key step to retaining clients and building a predictable revenue stream. There are many challenges including; what services to offer, how to price them and how to migrate customers.

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Objection, your honor, assumes facts not yet in evidence!

This tacitly assumes that success is a destination. And, that it’s the same for everyone.

:-)

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INTERESTING: Life isn’t fair

Thursday, March 6, 2008

http://www.happiness-project.com/happiness_project/2008/03/life-isnt-fair.html

Life isn’t fair, or, why people who are irritable get more irritable, and people who are cheery get more cheery.

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I love finding a precise term for things I’ve observed in the word. It’s so satisfying to discover concepts like Schadenfreude, or “acting in reliance,” or wabi-sabi. One of my favorite parts of writing my book Power Money Fame Sex: A User’s Guide was making up new terms: platinum rule, eye stray, object lust, ubiniquity.

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‘pleasure taken from someone else’s misfortune’
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schadenfreude

an economic harm for acting in reliance on a party who failed to fulfill their obligation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliance_damages_(law)

beauty that is “imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabi-sabi

Platinum Rule as “Never ever, ever, ever ‘love’ thy neighbor.” His point was that one should never date someone seen on a regular basis, e.g. someone at the same workplace, a next door neighbor, etc. because such relationships never work out in the end and lead to never-ending suffering, as those involved would see each other constantly.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platinum_Rule

“eye stray”?
Girl watching while with your significant other?

“object lust”?

ubiniquity?

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INTERESTING: If IP Is Property, Where Is the Property Tax?

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/27/0018224&from=rss

If IP Is Property, Where Is the Property Tax?
Posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 26, @08:36PM
from the making-the-world-safe-for-mickey dept.
Government

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nweaver writes “In a response to the LA Times editorial on copyright which we discussed a week ago, the paper published a response arguing: ‘If Intellectual Property is actually property, why isn’t it covered by a property tax?’ If copyright maintenance involved paying a fee and registration, this would keep Mickey Mouse safely protected by copyright, while ensuring that works that are no longer economically relevant to the copyright holder pass into the public domain, where the residual social value can serve the real purpose of copyright: to enhance the progress of science and useful arts. Disclaimer: the author is my father.”

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Interesting question. Is there such a thing as “intellectual property”?

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INTERESTING: catnaps may improve performance

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7254555.stm

Six-minute nap ‘may boost memory’

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Even the shortest of catnaps may be enough to improve performance in memory tests, say German scientists.

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Maybe this reinforces the American student cramming in an “all nighter” for the test, which requires the recall of lots of irrelevant factoids. That’s what passes for eddykation in the gooferment skoolz.

So maybe the students “discovered” this independently and passed the meme along in folk lore?

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INTERESTING: Don’t worry FEMA will be here soon.

Saturday, February 9, 2008

Old Friends

Don’t worry FEMA will be here soon.

One of the best youtube videos I’ve seen. Not that I’ve watched a lot, but this has the Hollywood feel to it. Is this the deathknell for big budget Hollywood? Might take some time, but it could be. Like looking down the railroad tracks, you can see all the way to convergence. If avian flu, or something like it, doesn’t derail civilization.

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INTERESTING: A lesson to do not hesitate to act

Thursday, January 31, 2008

http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2008/tle453-20080127-03.html

South Wins!!
by Russell D. Longcore

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Over 150 million people are not killed by governments and wars during the 20th century. All because Jefferson Davis did not hesitate to act on a day in July of 1861.

One Man Can Make A Difference.

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Interesting observation.

But like shoulda, coulda, and woulda probably not overly useful.

However, I do like alternate history better than what we’ve got!

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INTERESTING: homicide of an unborn child

Sunday, January 27, 2008

http://www.covenantnews.com/abortion/archives/037719.html

January 26, 2008
Driver Charged in Crash That Killed Woman’s Unborn Child

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KITTANNING, Pa. — An Armstrong County woman has been charged after a car she was driving crashed into another vehicle, killing the other driver’s unborn child. Fifty-three-year-old Sheila Marlene Altman of Ford City has been arraigned on charges of vehicular homicide, drunken driving, homicide of an unborn child, involuntary manslaughter and aggravated assault.

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What I find interesting is that the gooferment picks and chooses when someone becomes a person deserving of its protection. The Constitution does cite the “right to life” as one of the principle reasons for the existence of any government. In this story, it’s an “unborn child”; if they were talking about abortion, it would have been a fetus. I’m confused.

Please don’t think I’m for driving carelessly, negligently, or stupidly. I am for a little consistency.

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INTERESTING: Another lesson that I didn’t get in school

Saturday, January 26, 2008

http://www.frugalsquirrels.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=forum;f=64;hardset=0;start_point=0;DaysPrune=0

Another lesson that I didn’t get in school.

(I’m learning even at my advanced age that there are many!)

I read some “patriot fiction” from the above link. Mostly TEOTWAWKI (The End Of The World As We Know It) stuff.

(Amazingly good, Some surprisingly long. Interesting twists. Some technical stuff obviously cut ‘n’ pasted.)

The interesting part of it is that one quickly realizes that humanity can’t survive without the cooperation of all the folks.

That’s clearly a lesson that the politicians have “forgotten”. As you listen to how they pander, pontificate, and prevaricate in their speeches and debates, one realizes how they miss the essence of society and how “short” the fall on the “leadership standard ruler”.

That’s clearly a lesson that the people have never learned.

That’s a lesson that “big business” has to relearn. Management gurus like Tom Peters and the quality guys have been stressing for ages to no avail. Having come thru layoffs many times, it’s clear that some organizations don’t value their “human resources”.

People first; you can’t succeed without them. Heck, you can’t survive without them. You need to find the ways to align interests.

Another lesson that I didn’t get in school.

Sigh!

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INTERESTING: Bobby Fischer, American chess master

Friday, January 18, 2008

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080118/D8U89N681.html

World Chess Champion Bobby Fischer Dies
Jan 18, 7:26 AM (ET)
By GUDJON HELGASON

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REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) – Bobby Fischer, the reclusive American chess master who became a Cold War icon when he dethroned the Soviet Union’s Boris Spassky as world champion in 1972, has died. He was 64.

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They say the line between genius and madness is very grey.

I played a lot of chess as a child. (I was a rated chess and bridge player. And, if I was born a couple of decades later, then I might have been a poker millionaire. I knew the math side; would have had to learn the people side.) I knew of Fischer before he was “popular”. I followed his games in the chess rags and chess clubs in the Greenwich Village. In fact, at chess, you can quickly see that you are out classed with no hope of ever getting better. His games were like that. I found many people, who while better than I, opined that he was the “Cassius Clay” of our “sport”. After that point, you’re either just kidding yourself or wasting time. So, I moved on to find my niche at something I was unique at. (I’m still looking!?!)

I hope he found peace.

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INTERESTING: Those with the least amount of talent use vulgarity

Tuesday, January 8, 2008

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/01/britney_anna_nicole_and_the_fu.html

January 06, 2008
Britney, Anna Nicole and the Future of America
By Bob Weir

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Rob and Laura Petrie walked into the bedroom, doffed their robes, revealing full-length cotton pajamas, gave each other a peck on the lips and retired for the night, in separate beds. That was the public state of our morals in the fifties and early sixties. The Dick Van Dyke Show was one of the top shows in the Nielson ratings during a time when America’s standards of decency were suitable entertainment for every age group.

Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz had a zany but loving relationship which was always humorous without ever being licentious. Parents could watch television with their children and have no fear that their innocence would be stolen with the turn of a knob. Forty years later, we have “advanced” to scantily clad women and men jumping into bed with (and on) each other and leaving little to the imagination about their lustful purposes.

Those with the least amount of talent use vulgarity to shock their way to fame and fortune. Partially nude bodies, undulating in paroxysms of feigned passion was once restricted to X-rated movies on the side streets of the big cities. Now, it’s available with a stroke of the remote or thrust into plain view with a click of the mouse.

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This really resonates!

When one thinks of the end of the Roman Empire, debauchery, debased currency, the absence of civic virtue, and the mob in the Colosseum come to mind.

But, it always starts much much earlier.

With the failure of virtue in the individual?

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