Archive for December, 2009
Thursday, December 17th, 2009
The War Against Education!
Just after a few short days of writing this post on governments cutting back on education, we now have cities with the audacity to tax poor students via tuition to server the interests of fat, old, pensioners. What in the hell is the world coming to? The mayor of Pittsburgh calls it the “Fair Share [...]
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Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
What About The WOMEN In The Tiger Woods Scandal?
I can’t keep up. Is it 15 or 18? How many women has Tiger Woods bagged since being married? Everyone is bashing Tiger and I judge not lest I be judged but if there is some judging to be going around why isn’t any of it being directed at the women? It seems the WOMEN [...]
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Tuesday, December 15th, 2009
The Secrets Women Executives Tell Me….
I must have a face that reads, “Come and deliver me from my ills” because over the past four companies I’ve worked for I’ve had interactions with women executives that frequently come in my office (or theirs when I’m there) and confide in me some of the problems they perceive themselves as having. I say [...]
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Monday, December 14th, 2009
To All Students: RateMyProfessors.com
As I stated a few days ago, my first MBA semester is over and I’m still contemplating what I will do next. This semester I had a mixed bag of professors: one really great one and one marginally deficient on so many levels. I do plan on taking two more classes next semester and was [...]
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Sunday, December 13th, 2009
Where Are The Infrastructure Jobs?
I recently watched History Channel’s The Crumbling of America and I was intrigued that most bridges are on the verge of collapse across America. The pipeworks in most cities are decaying horribly and that’s just the beginning of problems. So if ALL of these things need to be fixed why isn’t anyone doing anything about [...]
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Saturday, December 12th, 2009
Observations From Site Visit To Local Mall
I went to the mall today to pick up a few items. Here are some quick observations I made while there: 1. Parking Lot was jam packed, as usual I had to park at the far edge of the parking lot and walk 300 yards. 2. Mall density was high. Many people were walking about [...]
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Saturday, December 12th, 2009
From Topeka To New York To Carbondale; Governments Running Out of Cash!
It’s been an interesting week for news on the state of governments running out of cash. New York has just announced that they are running out of cash and cutting back on government services: Under a possible budget-saving measure, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority would charge students half-price fares next year – and full fares starting [...]
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Friday, December 11th, 2009
The First MBA Semester Is Over!
Good grief….I’m done with the first semester of my MBA program and it was relatively uneventful. I seriously underestimated the time commitment going back to school would be and I’m going to go one more semester before I make a final decision about finishing. The key problem is that I am wasting a great [...]
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Thursday, December 10th, 2009
Borders Closing Store Near My Home
Wow, just a few months after I wrote this post about how useless book stores have become, I got an email today that Borders is closing down the book store near my house. Good riddance! I wish I could say having Borders near my home was beneficial but every time I walked in there they [...]
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Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
When Will We Have Google Grocer?
Google recently released something called Google Goggles that effectively allow you to use your mobile phone (equipped with camera) to take a snapshot of something (like a bar code, business card, etc) and then have it reveal additional information about it. You can read a little bit about it here. While it is relatively new, [...]