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Friday, July 16th, 2010
Some Caveats to Live By
Let me say at the outset that if you are reading this blog for financial or any other advice, don’t. I am hardly an expert on any of the topics I might choose to discuss here. My purpose is simply to share with the reader my personal experiences, observations and thoughts regarding the various [...]
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Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
Pay for Performance and Bailouts
One of the most interesting statements I’ve heard today was from Bank of America to the effect that Wall Street businesses aren’t allowed to pay people based on performance then those businesses will lose the best people to turn the company around.
Two things immediately come to mind. First, if they were paid for performance they [...]
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Friday, August 7th, 2009
Can’t We All Just Get Along?
In recent weeks I’ve been researching backup options for my home computers. At the top of the list, of course, is Windows Home Server. Other options I’ve tried include Amahi running on Fedora 10. Now, as I’ve written previously, I’m pretty OS agnostic. I work with all of them and really don’t have a preference. [...]
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Thursday, June 18th, 2009
Ah! The Beach
Well, after four years, we’ve finally gotten a vacation. The Florida Gulf coast is a nice place to visit. The soft, white sand, gentle breezes and surprisingly not quite so much traffic as other places I’ve been. But then, maybe I’ve just not really gotten out at the right times of the day yet.
And, the [...]
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Monday, April 27th, 2009
Last year’s Tech?
Wow! I didn’t realize it had been so long since I posted. Then, I just found this site: http://lastyearsmodel.org/ and thought it was pretty cool.
Here’s my version and my list of “old tech”:
A 9 year old no-name, many-times refurbished PC with a 1gig processor, 2GB memory and 40Gb HD for a linux file server/test [...]
