Author: Sage

  • I Think “Should” is Over Rated

    I Think “Should” is Over Rated

    I have lead pretty much the last decade of my career doing what I felt I “should” be doing. I should be going to meetings. I should be selling. I should be networking. Recently I have had a change of heart. I’ve decided to make a withdrawal from SageRock. Not a money withdrawal as much…

  • Tired of Missing my @Replies – Sending RSS Feeds to My Email

    Tired of Missing my @Replies – Sending RSS Feeds to My Email

    Every time I miss an @reply from someone I feel like a total jerk. You see, I don’t usually check my twitter in a browser. I do most of it on my phone. I miss @replies all the time. The only way you can get @replies to go to your phone is if you have…

  • Welcome to the Revolution

    Welcome to the Revolution

    Crushing Job Losses May Signal Broader Changes – NYTimes.com “These jobs aren’t coming back,” said John E. Silvia, chief economist at Wachovia in Charlotte. “A lot of production either isn’t going to happen at all, or it’s going to happen somewhere other than the United States. There are going to be fewer stores, fewer factories,…

  • Rahm Doctrine

    Rahm Doctrine

    Op-Ed Columnist – Spock at the Bridge – NYTimes.com “Take advantage of a crisis to grab an opportunity.”

  • Jindal Is Wrong – Expanding State Unemployment Insurance Is Temporary

    Jindal Is Wrong – Expanding State Unemployment Insurance Is Temporary

    I’m really curious about this whole thing of some Republican Governors not accepting part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 a.k.a: stimulus package: Jindal to refuse some stimulus money – Alexander Burns – POLITICO.com Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal announced Friday that he will decline stimulus money specifically targeted at expanding state unemployment…

  • America on Center Stage

    America on Center Stage

    Op-Ed Columnist – Paging Uncle Sam – NYTimes.com This is a Thomas Friedman (“Hot Flat and Crowded”) piece. He is writing it from Asia. There are many, many Americans who often feel embarrassed by their country and fellow countrymen. One reason is because we are so self-obsessed that we hardly acknowledge there are other countries…

  • The Path Of Success Is Paved With Failure

    The Path Of Success Is Paved With Failure

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  • My Prejudice

    My Prejudice

    I fight with a known prejudice I have concerning this whole economic thing. But I know I’m not the only one who does this. Factcheck.org points out an important fact: Why all the uncertainty among first-rate economists? Well, for one thing, economists have very little data with which to work. There are plenty of theoretical…

  • de Gaulle

    de Gaulle

    “The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.”

  • Obama Declares War On Winter

    Obama Declares War On Winter

    February 6, 2009 WASHINGTON  — U.S. President Barack Obama has announced that war against Winter has begun. In his address at 0315 GMT Thursday, Obama said: That every effort would be made to spare the lives of innocent civilians, But the campaign will be “broad and concerted” and will use “decisive force. No outcome but…

  • George S. Patton on Winning a Battle

    George S. Patton on Winning a Battle

    “Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up. It is always tired in the morning, noon, and night. But the body is never tired if…

  • From Surf’s Up

    From Surf’s Up

    “Ya know kid, find a way. Because that’s what winners do.”

  • Daniel Bell

    Daniel Bell

    A socially mobile person has no ready guide for acquiring new knowledge on how to live “better” than before.

  • Suze Orman

    Suze Orman

    Do what’s right instead of what’s easy.

  • From Quantum of Solace

    From Quantum of Solace

    It is said that your are measured by the power of your enemies.

  • eee pc connecting to my network

    eee pc connecting to my network

    I hadn’t backed up my little eee pc in a while and, consequently, forgot how I did it. Here’s my reminder… I go to the File Manager, and select “Tools: Mount Network Share” \\FREENAS\WesternDigital500GB and mount it to: /home/usr/FreenasShare (sometimes I can’t connect to the network in ‘desktop mode’. I have better luck in ‘easy…

  • Johnny’s Downtown, Cleveland

    Johnny’s Downtown, Cleveland

    The reason I was inspired to start this log of my dining experiences was because of my dinner last night at: Johnny’s Downtown, Cleveland Rocky went here several years ago, spoke of it highly and so I was interested in checking it out. The ambiance is great. Wood paneled walls, high metropolitan loft ceilings, dark…

  • Restaurants and me

    Restaurants and me

    I do not consider myself an extravagant man. I payed $115,000 for my house about 6 years ago. My newest car is a 2004 Hyundai Sonata. I have a home theater, but it is hand made and the projector is a business project that currently has about 200 hours left on its bulb. But if…

  • Social Media Happy Hour

    Social Media Happy Hour

    Check out SageRock Happy Hour. This month it is focused on Social Media. November 20 @ 6:00330.379.9000Free to attendPlease RSVP by November 18thto [email protected] [youtube]ltSoq5Zselo[/youtube]

  • God on Trial – PBS

    God on Trial – PBS

    Here are some of the sides of the trial:God is on trial for murder, conspiring to murder and more murder. God had a covenant with the Jewish people… they are chosen. People have sins and are being punished. Good people are being punished. God is not punishing individuals but instead a whole group. If God…