I just discovered a another great source of good in-depth news articles. The Center for Public Integrity’ website
iwatchnews.org
You should really read the article “Failure to Communicate” on the US Army’s 6 billion dollar investment in new radios that didn’t work so they scrapped the program. Just what I want to see my government doing with my tax dollars. That is close to $20 each for every man woman and child in the United States.
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All Hard Drives will fail
It is a fact. All hard drives will fail. It’s just a matter of when.
Computers have become such in intrisic part of our lives and yet they can be so very fragile. I often wonder if there is really a net gain in having computers as a part of our lives. Is the increased productivity worth the trade off in time spent stairing at the screen instead of acturlly doing something. that will have to wait for another story.
In all of the things that we do with our computers, what truly matters is your data. Your data is your pictures, your Quicken file, your email, your word documents, reports, letters, websites you created, Powerpoint presentations etc. Depending upon what you use your computer for, will depend on how much critical data you have and hense fourth how much you have to lose when your hard drive fails. Continue reading
Merry Christmas to all. We hope you have a wonderful holiday.
We will be spending the Christmas Eve with good friends and family. Jes and Dustin will be coming home from Port Orchard and Reid II will be here as well as Christy’s mom Ann who is now living here with us. Tammy and Tristan and Jo Ann and Steve will be here for my annual burning of the Rib Roast.
Ho Ho Ho.
Creating a website that looks just the way you want is not as easy as it should be. I have been designing websites for 14 years. I have used everything from plain old school html to several html markup editors to various version of Adobe’s Dreamweaver.
I currently use the popular and extremely configurable blogging software Word Press installed on my server as well as the CMS (Content Management Software) Joomla for most of my more involved websites. However it is not always easy to make any of these tools to give me the look and feel I am searching for. I can get there but I am always looking for a easier way to get to my ultimate goal. I have come up with two options. Bot of these involve our sourcing the project.
Elance – Here you submit the specifications that you want for your site and freelancers bid on the project.
PSD2HTML.com – This site lets you do your design using all of the tools available in Adobe Photoshop and they will convert it to html, or WordPress, Druple, Joomla, Magento, javascript or an email template.
This is a great site to find deals mostly on technology stuff.
Hot Deals
Take a look at Publicsurplus. I watch this site tegulay for deals. They have government surplus auctions, everything from kitchen equipment to buses.
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So you want to get an ebook reader. Well your options are many and the decisions not so easy. The good news is that enrtry price is getting cheaper by the day. Amazon the guerilla of the ebook market has just lowered the preice of their entry level ad supported Kindle to $79.00n due the the recent release of their new Knodle Fire Color Android Tablet. for only $199.00
Then there is of course the 10 ton guerilla the Apple iPad 2. Starting at $499 and weighing in at Get a kindle or any other neat gadget and put a dollar in Reids pocket. Just Amazon Kindle, Wi-Fi, 6″ E Ink Pearl Display
What do you like to do? Ok, playing video games just really doesn’t count. I don’t care what you heard on tv, you are not going to have a career playing video games, nor are you going to be a professional basketball player.
Choosing a career path is a tough choice. The smart individual will weigh many aspects of career choices in their decision making process.
What are you interested in doing?
It’s not as simple as that, you really need to find out what the various jobs entail. I offered a friend of mine a career opportunty 10 years ago. He was working at Kmart making minimum wage and I was offering a position that would involve working in construction in oil refineries. He wasn’t interested as he enjoyed working with people in retail. 7 years latter he took me up on the offer, only to discover that he still got to deal with customers, just in a different aspect and location. And the pay is allot better.
Does the career offer good pay and a path to make more?
Many jobs are pay a little go no where jobs. You need to learn to recognize these and avoid them. They may be a paying job that seams attractive, but once you get stuck in the job it is even harder to move not another career.
Does this career have a future?
You don’t want to waste your time getting started in a new career that is only going to be outsourced to people in India or replaced by automation.
One of my daughters took a position with a medical office in medical records. It was a job, and it got her foot in the door in the medical administration field. However she went in knowing that medical records are being computerized and eventually the job will go away.
Here is a pretty interesting list of careers that are growing in 2011:
Pretty slick site all Hand Made Stuff. Handmadenews.com