All Your Children Are Belong To Us
At least one state senator, DiAnna Schimek, in Nebraska thinks so. Her bill would require home-school students to take state-mandated tests or have their schoolwork assessed by an outside evaluator. If students‘ progress falls short academically, they would be sent to public or private schools. That’s ironic. One major factor in parents’ decision to homeschool [...]
Yeah, What He Said
The other day I posted a meandering attempt at not ranting about information technology and the manufacturing sector. Today, Seth Godin wrote a post about basically the same thing. The difference is, his post actually makes some sense. Talent is too smart to stay long at a company that wants it to be a cog [...]
BIG Manufacturing. Last to Know, Last to Go
I was mulling my current employment situation over yesterday, and I thought of something that I think not many people have realized yet. Dare I say this is a bold prediction? Big manufacturing companies are notorious for being late adopters of technology. From my experience, technology tends to happen to them instead happening for them. [...]
In This Year of Political Calls For Change
I decided to make a few changes in my career today. Well, I didn’t actually decide today. I just put the wheels in motion officially. So there’s a good chance that I’ll be available for anyone who needs BI, software development, or sys admin work done. Of course, only high rollers need apply. I hit [...]
Stupor Tuesday–For Real This Time
A co-worker was just telling me about going to the polls in Eastern Kentucky where fights would break out among voters. Usually the animosity for people in other parties stayed below the surface, but on election day it was brought out through “campaigning”. This was a practice that saw a certain party show up with [...]
Microsoft to Buy Yahoo!?
From the WSJ: The offer, $31 a share in cash and stock, is a 62% premium to Thursday’s closing price. Microsoft said Yahoo holders would be able to trade their shares for cash or 0.9509 Microsoft shares a piece, with no more than half of the overall purchase price paid in cash. Seems too good [...]
CNN Debates at Reagan Library
This was basically a sham. We got, literally, 10 minutes of McCain and Romney arguing over semantics. Whether or not Romney used the word “timetable” as a reference to troop withdrawel or a reference to milestones. Is that really what the debate is about? I could have sworn I was watching two high school girls [...]
Luckily, We Have The Fed
Admittedly, I am more stupider than a lot of people when it comes to finances.  So someone please tell me how the stock market really works. See, I thought the stock market reacted to what is going on in the economy. I didn’t realize it was the economy.  Apparently, I was wrong, because the Federal Reserve has announced an emergency [...]
Marketing at the Pediatrician
Today we took our little Chick Pea for her 6 month checkup. We go to a large pediatric group, and today we saw our third doctor. One of the things about going to a large group is that each doctor has their own personality and style, but today I noticed one common thread with all [...]
Sun Buys MySQL
I don’t write about tech stuff here too often, but since this blog, and most likely yours*, is backended by MySQL, it’s relevant. MySQL’s business model works like this–it’s free (as in beer) to use, but enterprise level users do pay the company for support. That’s what makes it so great for the web. People [...]
