I received a call this evening. It was from a friend of my, he told me one of his friends had finally crossed the line, and he was considering cutting ties with him. He called to ask my advice, because he had come to a realization I had come to years ago, that is that his friend was no longer the man we both at one time considered a cherished friend. He had succumb to addiction, he let substance abuse become his life, and in the process had changed form a bright promising young man to a sad shell of his former self. This conversation set me to thinking and I decided to write a few words. I hope any one reading this sees it as both a cautionary tale, and as a plea to an old friend to come back from oblivion. I have decided in writing this to not use the person’s real name, so for the purpose of this i am going to refer to him as Jack. The name I find fitting as it was a bottle of Jack Daniel’s among others that my good friend crawled in to one day and from which, has yet to emerge.
Here is an Idea for government expenditure cuts
So you hear it every day, talk of deficit reductions, and lowering spending.
Well here is an idea!
There are 535 Congress men/women making an average of $199,420/year and that are just the salaries. The president makes another 400K/year for an average expenditure of $107,089,700/year. Mean while the average American man makes 45K/Year and the average American women makes 35K/year (disregarding this inequality for a moment) that makes an average of 40K/Year for the average American! Id says we cap all congressional and executive salaries at a level even with average American salary. This means 535 congress members + 1 president X $40K= $21, 440,000/Year. That is a savings of $85,649,700/Year! How’s that for deficit reduction!! I’m just saying
If you like this idea,Vote now at https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petition/cap-congressional-salaries-and-ban-congress-raising-there-own-salary/R5wn0RRs
Day 1 with Google +
I finally got my Google + invite! So that toke long enough, my
first impression of it? Like a mix of Buzz, Facebook, and Google profiles. I’ll
have more to say after I use it for a while, until then I will reserve further
judgment. My only question to you is, do you really need another social network?
Live from New York: Windows Phone “Mango” press conference (via Windows Phone Secrets)
As a Windows Phone 7 User and General fan i am excited about the forthcoming update to the platform titled “mango”. If i had to guess so is a fellow WP7 Fan and Guru for all things Microsoft Mr. Paul Thurrott editor for windows It pro, and author of the Win super site for windows. Paul was at the Microsoft press conference announcing “Mango” . the article is filled with neat tidbits, and info on the coming update to read on after the break
A future in the cloud Part 1:The first wave
Today companys like Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Netflix have become household names in the west and indeed across the world and all of these companies have 2things in common. they are; they live on the internet, and they’d like you to do the same. With more and more people spending more of their day on line than ever before. This has caused a paradigm shift in the way we view and use computers, and computing devises, and with it we are entering a brave new world, a new era in Technology, and computing; the Era of the cloud. Now the first wave of cloud based operating systems have arrived ready to do battle with the MS Windows, and Mac OSX’s of the world. The Cloud revolution has begun and cloud OS’s are here to stay. Continue reading
