LINKEDIN: May I suggest that you have your own domain?

Saturday, November 17, 2007

May I suggest that you have your own domain?

The common wisdom, or is that common whizdumb, is to own your own name as a domain name. I own “reinke.cc”. (I like saying “sea sea me at reinke.cc”!) I gives one quite a bit of control. And, it’s very cheap. I know three solutions at 15$/year using wordpressdotcom with gmail, 25$/year email only with 1and1, and 60$/year for domain + email + webspace also at 1and1. My point is not that you should use 1and1. I could care less. It’s that getting on to your own email is cheap and easy.

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GUNS: Have an armed body guard? Feel secure!

Friday, November 16, 2007

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig8/morales1.html

>If politicians were capable of actually caring for the welfare of the general population, then they would not pass such reckless restrictions.

You left out that the politicians, and the other vocal liberal, usually have an armed body guard, I laugh at the libel icon NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg who takes the subway. The pics and video carefully photograph around his armed security detail of four cops. Sigh. Of course, he’s for “victim disarmament”; he’s at no risk!

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MONEY: the Dollar is no longer the World’s reserve currency

Friday, November 16, 2007

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,517060,00.html

November 13, 2007
WEST WING
A Pearl Harbor without War
By Gabor Steingart in Washington, D.C.
Translated from the German by Christopher Sultan

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The dollar crisis has politicians alarmed worldwide. The US currency has lost 24 percent of its value since the introduction of the euro, and now there is even a chance that China could abandon its policy of pegging its currency to the dollar — a problem the United States should take very seriously.

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So far Beijing has behaved like the benevolent shopkeeper who willingly extends credit to his customers. The Americans receive shipments of Chinese-made television sets, toys and underwear, but the Chinese do not import a comparable volume of US goods. The gap between buying and selling amounts to about $5 billion every week.

The Chinese are satisfied with buying US treasury bonds, partly to keep their most important customer afloat. The central bank in Beijing already holds currency reserves of $1.4 trillion.

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Within a single generation, the world’s biggest lender has become its biggest borrower, a circumstance the United States has made no serious attempts to change. And what has been Washington’s standard take on the shift? The dollar is our currency, but it’s your problem.

Thus, the tone of the US government’s callous and thick-skinned reaction to China’s announcement last week came as no surprise. There was a reason the dollar became the world’s reserve currency, US Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson said in a slightly offended tone.

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Well, the other shoe is about to drop. And, it would be nice if it didn’t drop on us! I have no illusions about just how important this upcoming Presidential election is to everyone’s pocketbook. Personally, I’m prepping fro President Hillary and adjusting my thinking along those lines. It will make the 1929 Great Depression look like a walk in the park. We have a Notre Dame style Hail Mary if Ron Paul can get the Republican nomination and then win the election. At least, he understands the problems and a way for us to escape the executioner’s guillotine. A return to commodity money! Sure, it’s painful. But not as bad as a Great Depression Cubed with Hillary (i.e., the Dollar is no longer the World’s reserve currency, Social Security – Medicare – Medicaid – Drug Benefit time bomb explodes, and a global depression that makes the Japanese Stagflation look like a boom). Add to that President Hillary’s version of a “Great Society” with Guns + Butter + Socialism. And, it’s pretty bleak.

I’m advising getting your financial house in order for a plague of Biblical proportions. Seven years of lean might well be seventy. Look at the aftermath for the Roman Empire and you might get a feel for the next set of Dark Ages.

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INTERESTING: the dancer turning

Friday, November 16, 2007

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,22535838-5012895,00.html

The Right Brain vs Left Brain
Article from: AAP
October 05, 2007 12:00am

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The Right Brain vs Left Brain test … do you see the dancer turning clockwise or anti-clockwise?

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I found it entertaining. Interesting!

But the best discovery was that by closing one eye I could make the dancer reverse. With both eyes open, there was nothing I could do to see the reverse.

Can you guess which way I default to?

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RANT: Hey Governor Corzine — still wanna hear about state cars? … (continued) …

Friday, November 16, 2007

You don’t? TOO BAD!

This morning 16 November at 0700 est on 295 South Exit 59 … …

… a white suv td 11 161 … …

… at a between zero and leisurely 70 (Your serf speed limit is 65)

… in lots of traffic

… tailgating the poor peon in his way

… never left the left lane (Do you teach them to do that, or is that a qualification for working for the state of nujerzee!?)

Any way I am sure that he was hurrying to get away from I assume trenton to protect and serve me and not escape the scene of the crime.

Arghhh!

P.S.: Dear reader, I don’t write these every day. Just when I ARRIVE early for work, particularly agitated aggravated and have to wait for my employer workstation to get online.

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RANT: BA doesn’t want to “lose” their slots at the airport.

Friday, November 16, 2007

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=493357&in_page_id=1770

‘Green’ BA flying empty ‘ghost planes’ across the Atlantic
By EMILY ANDREWS – More by this author » Last updated at 09:22am on 14th November 2007

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British Airways is flying dozens of empty planes across the Atlantic because it has no cabin crew to staff them.

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See something stupid? Look for the gooferment. BA doesn’t want to “lose” their slots at the airport.

I OTOH just shake my head.

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LINKEDIN: May I suggest that you not use your employer’s email on LinkedIn?

Friday, November 16, 2007

May I suggest that you not use your employer’s email on LinkedIn?

LinkedIn is a great way to find people and be found. Unfortunately, in today’s economic climate, changing jobs is a fact of life. When I was on Wall Street, one would be walked out of the building and one’s email unceremoniously forwarded to one’s boss or “Human Resources”. That taught me NEVER to depend or use the boss’ email. So to, I’ve seen a lot of people — one of my very best contacts — lose access to their LinkedIn account. She’s forgotten her password and her corporate email is gone. Hence always I advise people to use a personal email on LinkedIn. I have some pretty specific opinions about what email to use, but suffice to say it’s NEVER the corporate email.

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Update: And, I saw that happen yesterday! :-(

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JOBSEARCH: economic downturn is imminent

Thursday, November 15, 2007

FROM ELECTRONIC RECRUITING NEWS

Recruiting In The Trough I

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(November 13, 2007) Everyone agrees that the economic downturn is imminent. Maybe it’s already begun, maybe it will wait until the beginning of the next American administration. It’s coming to theatre near you.

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As inflation eats a hole in the pocketbooks of pensioners, there will be an interesting dampening effect. The effective retirement age has to rise by a year for every 10% of inflation. Since more senior employees are less vulnerable to inflation (and career transitions are harder to manage), attrition will be skewed towards a younger demographic.

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It would appear that there is a “sub prime bust” coming to the employment marketplace in the next year.

That tells me to advise my turkeys:

(1) Adjust your job replacement formula:

{For those, who aren’t aficionados of the Big Turkey’s methodology for calculating “job replacement interval”. Using my patented and copyrighted methodology, you can easily determine how many months YOU will need to find a new job. That is a function of: Annual Salary; the likelihood of a layoff in your company, industry, or skill set; the ease of finding another job in their skill set; their age; and the economy.}

Without going into great depth, I am advising all my Turkeys to adjust “the economy” value to THREE from ONE! This is one notch below it’s all time high of FOUR during the dotcom bust. This unprecedented jump is justified on the signals for Wall Street that rough times are ahead.

(2) Batten down your financial hatches.

Begin immediately to reduce your financial burn rate and increase your savings rate. Beware taking on any indebtedness for any reason.

(3) Solidify your current employment situation

Do whatever is necessary to make yourself valuable, popular, and worth keeping on the payroll. Now is not the time to “get thrown” off the bucking horse.

(4) Increase networking activity

You need to aggressively network to ensure your continued employ ability. Turkeys are advised to review their days outstanding in their various networking panels with an eye towards lowering them if feasible.

(5) Increase internet work on your “brand”

Since the internet works for you 24/7, it’s important to have sites, social networking presences, blogs, wikis, and forums that represent your brand. Spruce up and freshen up all online assets.

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GUNS: Guns don’t kill people–Governments do

Thursday, November 15, 2007

http://burnedbygovt.com/blog/2007/nov/musings_nature_government_1

Burned By Government
Musings on the Nature of Government #1
Mon, 11/12/2007 – 20:16

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Compare that to reality, in which there was a government for Pol Pot (and the other mass-murderers I mentioned above) the grab control of, and use to lend an aura of legitimacy to their killing.

Guns don’t kill people–Governments do.

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Gooferment is truly the meme that can kill us. And, it’s an illusion. A gang wrapped in an aura of legitimacy that pretends we are important. The Dead Old White Guys had that pegged. When you think about it, that gang puts “to protect and serve” on their “police” cars. But just who are they “protect and serve”-ing? Sure not us. As a matter of fact, another of their illusions, the gooferment courts have held there is no such duty. In “Warren v. District of Columbia”, the court stated it is a “fundamental principle of American law that a government and its agents are under no general duty to provide public services, such as police protection, to any individual citizen.”

OK, so now, are you at least unbrainwashed about the “government” meme?

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TECHNOLOGY: BLOGDESK and WORDPRESSDOTCOM

Thursday, November 15, 2007

This morning, BLOGDESK started to time out when it was attempting to update the free, and unequaled, wordpressdotcom. Now there are a lot reasons: netowrk, software on each end of the wire, or the rain. :-) I can’t point the finger yet. But, you can be sure when I can, I will!

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Update: As of 1400 est, it’s all working. I don’t know who to blame. But since it’s still raining, I’ll have to allow the Intelligent Designer off the hook. All others, I have my eye on you! Argh!

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