I can’t seem to find one. WP saved my last post when I lost power, but I can’t figure out how to delete the draft version. I restored my Firefox session and it was all still there, so I published that.
Oh well.
Category: General
This strip from the Dilbert comics page seems to be accurate in what executives think of blogs. To a lot of people, it is something to jump into and do just because it is hot at the moment. Unfortunately this is what I have witnessed more often than not in the blogosphere.
Don’t think that all blogs are bad and don’t do positive communication, a lot of them are great.
Bloggers have been around forever, they just were called “freelance reporters” or something similar. I am not saying all reporters are or should be bloggers, and most bloggers should NOT be reporters. However, there are definite similarities between reporters and bloggers. Some reporters are bloggers, and some bloggers are reporters, but one does not dictate the other automatically.
Blogging is simply an online outlet for your writing. It could be that you are reporting/commenting on news or your profession. Perhaps you are an executive and want to connect on a more personal level with your customers or employees.
Whatever your reason, blogging is an effective way to get your message out however you feel. Unfortunately this toon illustrates what so many executives do instead of actually using a blog to communicate. They have a person post some drivel and sign their name.
I’m new to this game as well, but I couldn’t imagine being so fake as making someone else imagine something to put on here.
I was scanning our local paper’s website to see if they had updated for today yet (they had not), when I came across this ad in the sidebar:
Day Labors
Part-Time -doing dirty work for long hours with low pay. Yard work, cleaning out houses, cutting logs and a 101 other things. Must be able to work alone and with others without goofing off. Driver’s licenses with clean record required.
Granted, this is honest work, and people will pay to have others do this work for them. Unfortunately, with the job climate around here, the person will probably have more calls than positions. (I omitted the phone number in consideration of the person placing the ad.)
I just found this entertaining and thought I would share it with everyone.
Okay, maybe not a million, but a few thousand. I didn’t catch the story this morning on CNN Headline News radio, as I had to come in to work, but the general idea is that a person found a briefcase literally full of money and returned it. From time to time these stories pop up in the news and it gives people a warm and fuzzy feeling. These stories go a long way to showing that goodness still exists in human nature.
Now, what would I do if I had found the money? I would have returned it. That is the easy thing to say when you aren’t faced with a decent amount of money that is yours for the taking. Can we all really know that we would return free and clear money?
There are a lot of ways that a few thousand dollars could make my life easier. Pay off my car, the little credit card debt, maybe even pay off my home. Sure would be nice to have that gift just pop up in your face one day.
I believe that returning the money would have to be done. Yeah, I might enjoy the short-term benefits of whatever I did with the cash, but returning it would do so much more in my opinion.
The person who lost it might not lose their job. They could deposit their life savings. They could buy their first home. They could stuff it in their mattress.
Whatever the “loser” decides to do, it would make both them and I feel much better to have the money returned.
Well, it looks like we will have to endure another summer of noise from the raceway. The track is at least 10 miles from my home, but is loud enough to pollute my neighborhood with its noise. I do pity anyone trying to sleep at the hotels which are perhaps a mile due-north of the track. Could you imagine staying at a hotel while on vacation with your family at a nice little interstate town and not getting to bed until midnight thanks to the incessant roaring? Personally, I would demand a refund, checkout, and cross that town off my list of ever again visiting.
The track is an attraction, it does bring in some money at gas stations and food chains, but is that really worth the hatred of an entire city? I wouldn’t think so, but apparently the owners do feel it is worth the annoyance.
In a town with so little else to do, some can find entertainment with the racing. I even enjoy watching a good race from time to time. What I do not enjoy is the noise pollution that the entire town has to deal with even if they do not want to watch the race.
The track does not need to be closed, in my opinion. However, there do need to be sound barriers installed. To my knowledge, at this time there are no such barriers erected. Don’t close the track and lose an attraction, but reduce the noise pollution to a bearable level. Most items I have read echo the sentiment that the track is not bad, but the noise is not worth the hassle.
The simple solution is to erect some noise barriers. The racetrack stays open, we keep an attraction, and the noise level is reduced in consideration of the whole city.
