SERVICE: KRUNCHD! Possibilities; but not a TINYURL competitor

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

You have successfully Krunchd a URL and here it is for your convenience and sharing:

Title of Krunch: The collective sites of FJohn Reinke

URL: http://krunchd.com/reinkefj

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JOBSEARCH: “Quick networking building” is “jumbo shrimp”

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

http://www.goarticles.com/cgi-bin/showa.cgi?C=1331895  

8 Simple Ways for Building a Network Quickly! by George Hayes

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IMHO, there is no way to build one quickly.

“Networking” is the creation of a web of interested people, that you have bonded with in someway, who will alert you to things you should know. It’s using the law of weak links to create a vast army of job search agents. They know what you want and are standing by to “call it in to you” when they see it.

By definition, you can’t do that quickly.

As readers here know, I “subscribe” to the Lucht school of networking. A formal process of gettikng in front of someone and asking for help.

Effective, but time consuming.

IMHO, networking is “first seek to help, then be helped”.

By definition, you can’t do that quickly.

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PRODUCTIVITY: Free ebook on “less”

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

http://thepowerofless.com/2008/12/free-ebook-thriving-on-less-simplifying-in-a-tough-economy/

Free Ebook: Thriving on Less – Simplifying in a Tough Economy

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“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” – Albert Einstein

A FREE download is available now: Leo Babauta has written a companion to The Power of Less — a free ebook called “THRIVING ON LESS: Simplifying in a Tough Economy“.

Thriving on Less: Simplifying in a Tough Economy (pdf format)

Feel free to share it on your blog, via email, on forums, in social media, or however you like! (Click on the “Tell-a-friend” button below to easily share with friends.)

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Always appreciate free wisdom.
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SERVICE: Tabloid makes an rss feed into a pdf

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

http://www.tabbloid.com/

Take one or more RSS feeds, add them, select a schedule! You get emailed a PDF.

Interesting alpha. Needs a way to limit the amount of RSS feed it takes. Like a daily take, should limit it to a day.

Maybe?

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POLITICAL: How can the people get an honest shake

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/01/leveraging_election_fraud_with.html

January 06, 2009
Leveraging election fraud with census fraud (updated)
Tom H. Sleeter

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Vote fraud can thereby live on, not only through phony votes cast on Election Day, but through phony people being created for the census. It would be wise to be vigilant on this as 2010 approaches.

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As evidenced by the MN Franken election, keep counting until you get ehr result you want and then urge everyone to stop.

Clearly, the census and vote are gooferment process subject to honest effort and deliberate fraud.

Argh!

It would seem that we have to get the “electing” done once at a very local level and then use representatives all the way from there. Once you vote for your alderman, then they vote for mayor. Then, the mayors select a county executive. The county execs vote for guv. Guvs vote for president.

Truly representative republic!

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TECHNOLOGY: “Online Profits” attempt to teach inet money making

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

http://www.onlineprofits.com/

Online Profits

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Many people wrote emails to congratulate me for the launch of the Online Profits training program, saying that they think it is a excellent course, and that they would love to join, but they don’t have the funds to be able to.

Thinking about that I decided to run a contest giving away 10 free memberships (each one worth $288). Those free memberships will give you full access to the training program for 6 months.

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Join the Most Complete Internet Marketing and Online Business Training Program, and Make 2009 Your Best Year Ever!

   * Learn all the facets of Internet marketing

   * Create your own online business

   * Take your existing projects and websites to the next level

   * Discover the tools and strategies that you need to succeed

   * Get access to a vibrant community of Internet marketers and entrepreneurs

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No secret: I’m cheap. If I won six months free I’d explore it.
Paying 300$, I’m not so sure.
Maybe if I was a young risk taker, I’d jump on it.
Now, I’m always concerned about a “Mad Dog” (i.e., a faud). In this case, I’ve been reading some of these folks for more than a year and I think they are serious and believable. I AM concerned that (1) I’m untrainable; (2) I can’t do it; and 93) I might not WANT to do it.
Argh!
YMMV!
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NJ: Budget “cuts” are too late, too little, and don’t “solve” the problem

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

http://lonegan.com/Where_Steve_Stands.aspx

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CORZINE’S BUDGET “CUTS” — A SCALPEL WHEN AN AX IS NEEDED

Governor Corzine yesterday issued a budget proposal that tinkers around the edges when real solid cuts are needed. While the Corzine proposal requiring unions give up a scheduled pay raise is a good one, the Governor refuses to eliminate any of the thousands of state government bureaucratic fiefdoms that helped (along with the Governor’s own mismanagement and ineptitude) created this budget crisis.

Unfortunately, Corzine refuses to end the mandates on local communities through the Council on Affordable Housing (COAH) — the group currently pushing 100,000 Low Income Housing units on every New Jersey town. And Corzine continues to support the Abbott court decision that has led to exploding per pupil costs in (Democrat-run) urban areas as high as $25,000 per student.

Meanwhile, suburban towns have had their state aid nearly eliminated — even though the sales tax and the income tax was sold on Garden State residents as a way to reduce “high property taxes.”

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The State Gooferment politicians should be in jail.

Corzine, the financial genius from Goldman Sachs, earlier said “no problem”. Some genius. Anyone with an IQ higher than a rock knew that the state was out of control.

If a private business didn’t make it’s pension contribution for decades, then the corporate officers would be Bubba’s girlfriend.

But the State can just ignore it. And the State Workers’ Union is in the bag going along with it. Bubba should have them as well.

And, state pensions shouldn’t be for anyone who makes more than 75k. Or, any political appointee.

Argh!

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FUN: Monkey Bailout Parable

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

FROM LUDDITE, FORWARDING SOMETHING ON:

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Once upon a time a man appeared in a village and announced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for $10 each.

The villagers, seeing that there were many monkeys around, went out to the forest and started catching them.

The man bought thousands at $10 and, as supply started to diminish, the villagers stopped their effort. He next announced that he would now buy monkeys at $20 each. This renewed the efforts of the villagers and they started catching monkeys again.

Soon the supply diminished even further and people started going back to their farms. The offer increased to $25 each and the supply of monkeys became so scarce it was an effort to even find a monkey, let alone catch it!

The man now announced that he would buy monkeys at $50 each! However, since he had to go to the city on some business, his assistant would buy on his behalf. In the absence of the man, the assistant told the villagers: “Look at all these monkeys in the big cage that the man has already collected. I will sell them to you at $35 and when the man returns from the city, you can sell them to him for $50 each.”

The villagers rounded up all their savings and bought all the monkeys for 700 billion dollars.

They never saw the man or his assistant again, only lots and lots of monkeys!

Now you have a better understanding of how the WALL STREET BAILOUT PLAN WILL WORK !!!!

It doesn’t get much clearer than this…………….

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Funny. AND all to true!

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QUOTE: all politicians, of all parties, are fundamentally unqualified!

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

“Once again, we believe all politicians, of all parties, are fundamentally unqualified to decide how other people should live. We do not believe in top-down social engineering by Republicans, Democrats, or anyone else. We believe in critical thinking, limited, decentralized power structures, individual liberty, and personal responsibility.” — D o w n s i z e r – D i s p a t c h (DownSizeDC dot ORG)

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SERVICE: Found another limitation on Facebook!

Monday, January 12, 2009

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How many Friend Lists can I have?

You can have up to 100 Friend Lists.

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Argh!

Where’s the Facebook competitor? Like LinkedIn, hard coded limits … … just shaking my head!

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