Mike Williams
The September Post
Did you ever write a website post just because you wanted the top post to contain the current month?
Yeah. Me neither.
Absent Friends
As most of you already know, I have 2 full time jobs.
Podcast Production (now married with terrestrial radio and management of a young ladies career) is one of those jobs and my regular day shift job is the other.
The day job was forced to lay-off a bunch of people on Friday and while we saw this coming, it still rings hard with a sense of dread, worry, and compassion for those folks who got walking papers. Let’s face it; getting laid off even 5 years ago is not the same as getting laid off under this economic climate. It’s bad. I can’t say that this is the worst business climate there has ever been because I only have my own frame of reference. The GDP numbers just released show only a 1.6% growth. I’ve never seen the GDP that low. The number simply means that country isn’t really growing economically and that’s really bad.
So, we worry. We worry about our friends and we worry about ourselves.
There might be a light at the end of the tunnel but so far we seem to be having trouble finding the entrance.
A French Booby Trap
(Reuters) – French police have arrested two teenage girls they say stole hundreds of euros from unsuspecting cash machine customers after distracting them by flashing their breasts.
Um, the side effects of an open society?
I thought Europeans didn’t get “shocked” by nudity?
How Secure Is Your Cell Phone?
This week I wrote this column about keeping secure information on your cell phone or other hand held device like an iPod Touch.
I realize lately that my columns have been more “doom and gloomy” so I wrote this “cheery” piece about losing your phone.
Yes; occasionally we all have to bow to the masses. 🙂
Almost Got It
While this story makes me smile, the very notion of using property that doesn’t belong to you is wrong.
Whether or not the guy had a liquor license is a different issue and a different debate for another time.
via CNN…
(CNN) — A homeless man allegedly broke into a California bar and served drinks to unsuspecting patrons all weekend — before police came calling.
The bar, called the Valencia Club, had gone out of business for some time and its liquor license had expired, police said this week.
But the suspect, Travis Lloyd Kevie, 29, somehow got into the California establishment in the Penryn area of Sacramento Valley last week. He reopened the bar using beer he bought from a nearby store.
Kevie allegedly started with a six-pack of beer and used money he received to buy more alcohol.
As I said, I like the spirit that Mr. Lloyd displays in that true entrepreneur fashion just can’t agree with the execution.
What’s In A Name?
My “talking point” of the day. Why the conservatives do so poorly in new media compared to the left?
Conservatives have to name everything “Right.”
On the left…
They know how to name things.
Huffington Post. Daily Koz. Etc. Can you tell what their politics are by the name? No. Not everyone may be as net savvy as you are.
At this point in time, it’s actually annoying to see “liberal” or “conservative” in a name.
If your podcast, website, or conference didn’t have the word “right” in it, you may have actually tricked someone from the opposite side into discovering it and taking part instead of seeing the word “right” and running the other way.
Statistically speaking; leaving your politics out of your name is one of the easiest ways of attracting a new following.
Just sayin.
