Thoughts, ideas, tips, musings, and pontifications. . .not necessarily in that order.
No new bailout today, but a bond reporter on CNBC, Rick Santelli, sure made some comments on the President’s mortgage bailout….
The government is promoting bad behavior… do we really want to subsidize the losers’ mortgages… How about we all stop paying our mortgage!
See and hear it all right here.
My reading list is long and backlogged. . .a lot! I’ve got three books scattered about the house in the process of being read, one by the couch, one in my office and one on the nightstand. The time of day can pretty much tell you what and where I’m reading. In between the books I have magazines, newspapers and blogs to be read.
The mailmanperson brings at least one magazine a day, ranging from Time, The Week, Economist and Futurist, to Writer’s Digest, The Writer, and Publisher’s Weekly. And of course, a multitude of trade magazines in technology, speaking, presentations, business and project management, training and organizational development. The paperboyperson delivers the Akron Beacon Journal and The Plain Dealer 7 days a week,and the Wall Street Journal and Investors Business Daily 5 days a week. Whoa boy!
Will technology save me? I’m beginning to convert some of my mail subscriptions to digital subscriptions. I read PC Magazine on my Zinio Reader. This is NOT an online edition or web-enhanced re-writes. It’s the actual magazine in digital format. Electronically I flip through the magazine, page by page, including the advertisements, front and back cover, and all the little tear-out subscription cards throughout the mag. It even handles foldout pages, so I can see a digital future for Playboy. I can print out an interesting article, email an issue, highlight passages, search keywords, and post notes, just like writing in the margins.
Without my RSS Reader, FeedDemon, it would be impossible to keep track of the 300+ blogs I try to read. Well I actually don’t read them all, but I do “watch” by keyword each one, and collect the postings I really do want to read. And FD updates what has changed about every 3 hours, sooner if I asked it to.
Will I ever catch up? No, but I do believe I’ll reduce that backlog eventually, especially if I stop watching Perry Mason reruns. Oops, there goes my TV Guide subscription.