5 for Friday

1 - Peter Drucker would have celebrated his 100th birthday yesterday. This retrospective from the Economist looks back at his work and writings.


2 - Joanna Young has a book. Indeed all the best of her Confident Writing blog posts are now in a book format for reference. More information on the book and how to obtain your copy can be found here.


3 - For some serious photography, Chas Jarvis shows off how he put together his "ground control" device. Cool!


4 - Google has continued to expand their Sites product and now offers more templates.


5 - And finally my daughter Carolyn, studying abroad this semester just spent a weekend in Egypt and has an interesting tale to tell of her "Walk Like an Egyptian"


What good things did you find this week? Care to share? Add them in a comment.

job search notes: Incite Rides Again

Mike Rothman comes to a realization, finally.

I was laid off from eIQ yesterday. I know it was a tough decision for the folks up there. Business decisions can be that way. I feel for them that they feel bad. They shouldn't.

Am I disappointed? Yes. But not for the reasons you'd think. I really enjoyed working with some members of the team, and I'll miss that. Some parts of the job were fun and interesting. I'll miss that too.

But most of the stuff I won't miss. At all.

As I was thinking back, it turns out the tenure of my last 3 vendor jobs has been exactly 15 months. I know, kind of strange, eh? Don't think they have an actuarial table to predict that. Yet this last experience has finally brought me to the realization that working for a vendor isn't the best use of my skills. Sometimes I'm a little slow on the uptake.

Read the full posting here: via Security Incite Rants by Mike Rothman on 11/17/09

How long did it take you to come to a realization?

What do you do with left over frosting?

Besides licking the spoon (cook's privilege).

A good use for left over frosting is to spread on graham crackers and make a sandwich of frosted grahams. The first day, the grahams are fresh and crunchy. The second day (after wrapping in plastic or a zip loc bag) the frosting has softened the graham and it becomes decadent.




Served with milk, it is very high on the scale of ultimate pleasures.

top of the morning to you!

Clouds create a sunlight sandwich this morning. What's for lunch?

top of the morning to you! clouds create a sunlight sandwich. what's for lunch?, originally uploaded by shersteve.

Lunch was a slice of pizza and a Greek salad. Yes, a Greek salad. If you hadn't heard, I have it on a good source that to order a Greek salad in Greece, you actually have to order it that way. The normal salad is cucumber slices and tomatoes with vinegar and oil.

Hadn't heard that? You can read more from my daughter Carolyn's blog, Greek Life as she compiles her experience from a semester aboard.

Enjoy!

A different view today

The sun is shining. Bring some shine to the folks you see. Smile!

A different view today. The sun is shining. Bring some shine to the folks you see, originally uploaded by shersteve.

job search notes: confidence, tweeting, keywords

 1 - Keeping up your confidence is a key to the successful job search effort.

Myers story echoes that of many other job seekers who have been shell-shocked by successful careers suddenly yanked out from under them, cut adrift in a flooded job market. The lack of confidence that comes from unsuccessful bids to find jobs starts to wear on their confidence.

“In the beginning of a layoff, there’s no reason to think that your skills won’t be transferable and you’ll find other opportunities,” says Leslie Sokol. “But when you begin knocking on doors and nothing happens, the confidence starts to turn to pessimism. We become more doubt-activated, and when that happens, then we’re really in trouble.”

 Read the full article at Out of Work Chicago here

2 -  You can now integrate your tweets into LinkedIn. Yup, they also just announced an app for that here. Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. What is your message? Who are you targeting? If you think that the answers lie within LinkedIn then go ahead.

3 - More good advice from Marci Reynolds:

Regardless of the keywords and phrases for your desired position, you should present yourself in an authentic, honest manner. Choose the verbiage that best matches your unique and impressive qualifications, experience, training and education.

 Read the full article from Marci here

And the rain comes down

here in Franklin this Saturday!

And the rain comes down here in Franklin this Saturday!, originally uploaded by shersteve.

On other days, it has been observed going sideways.

Just hard and down today.

WGBH canceling folk? Say it ain't so!

From Scott Alarik via Jake at the Circle of Friends Coffeehouse:

As many of you know, WGBH will cancel its Saturday afternoon program, "Folk On WGBH" on December 1. This ends a historic commitment to American folk music on WGBH, that goes back to to the early 1970s. I want to urge you to contact WGBH, spread the word at your venues about this decision, and urge your audiences to contact them, too. WGBH needs to hear how much non-profit venues like yours depend on Folk on WGBH; how important folk radio is to the cultural life of this area; and how much it has meant that WGBH has always supported folk music.

People can contact Audience Services/ WGBH/ One Guest Street/ Boston, MA 02135, or e-mail WGBH through its website, WGBH.org. This is a time to make our voices heard.

Any frequent reader should recognize, I spend sometime most weekends with Folk on WGBH.

This move is likely to get me to reconsider my support for WGBH. Why send them some money if they don't provide a program I like to listen to?