Archive for October, 2009
Friday, October 30th, 2009
I'm going to admit this right up front: I'm terrible at marketing myself.
Even though I get paid very well by others for consulting services advising them how to market themselves, and that advice has been very successful, I'm not good at applying those techniques and strategies to myself.
Not a small part of ...
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Friday, October 30th, 2009
Back in March, I posted a series on Health Care Reform:
Thoughts on Health Care Reform
Health Care Reform FAQ
Health Care Reform: The Options
Health Care Reform: The Cost Drivers – One Academic’s View
Health Care Reform: $2.4 Trillion and $85.6 Trillion
My goal was to lay a foundation of impartial information before the hyper-partisan media, parties, ...
Posted in health care reform, US Politics | 1 Comment »
Thursday, October 29th, 2009
S90 Information:
August 19, 2009 Canon USA Press Powershot line press release: http://www.usa.canon.com/templatedata/pressrelease/20090819_powershot.html
August 19, 2009 Canon UK S90 press release: http://www.dpreview.com/news/0908/09081907canons90.asp#press
Canon USA S90 site: http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/controller?act=ModelInfoAct&fcategoryid=223&modelid=19210
DP Review S90 brief hands on: http://www.dpreview.com/news/0908/09081906canons90handson.asp
Evaluation Context: Overlanding / Expedition use
Purpose of this evaluation: Provide initial impressions and testing results of the S90 compared to other ...
Posted in Photography, Travel | 4 Comments »
Thursday, October 29th, 2009
Adult Americans
Between 1989 and 2007 Americans knowledge of current events dropped by 8.3%
93% know Arnold Schwarzenegger while 36% know Vladimir Putin
32% know Sunni and Shia as two branches of Islam
41% know the name Muslims use to refer to God and the name of Islam's sacred text
33% believe that Iraq carried ...
Posted in Cultures, Geopolitics, US Politics | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
Americans don’t get out much.
That should come as no surprise considering that, according to the U.S. State Department, only 27 percent of Americans hold a valid passport. That means that 73 percent of Americans couldn’t get out to see the rest of the world even if they wanted to; even ...
Posted in Cultures, Geopolitics, Travel | 6 Comments »
Sunday, October 25th, 2009
Reentering the grid is a challenging experience when planned and voluntary. When unexpected, arbitrary and not of your own making, it is doubly so.
At times, the pragmatic aspects are overwhelming in their breadth, requiring an entire life to be reconstructed and assembled out of sometimes moving parts. But those challenges ...
Posted in Cultures, Motorcycles, Travel | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
Our friends often ask us about our perspective on national and international issues due to our travels, experiences and perspectives.
This is an excerpt from a recent email exchange on that topic:
There continues to be very little insight and understanding of the challenges that face the country among the American people, ...
Posted in Cultures, US Politics | No Comments »
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
Much to the chagrin of my long-suffering wife, I’m a bit of a pack rat, as well as a horizontal filer.
What that translates into is an office that inevitably evolves into stacks of material covering every horizontal surface.
To my wife’s and others amazement, I can locate the correct strata of ...
Posted in Cultures, Expedition Vehicles, Motorcycles, Travel | 16 Comments »
Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
When you're inside the United States, it is nearly impossible to realize how insular it is, especially related to information and perspective.
Since we're going to be here for a while, I'm providing a semi-regular injection of outside perspectives and information gleaned from other cultures, counties and regions in an effort ...
Posted in Cultures, Geopolitics, Outside the Fishbowl, Religion | No Comments »
