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BigFoot

There are media stories all over the place about the migration of high skill, high pay workers out of the Bay Area and other parts of California, as well as other sinks of iniquity.

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Hack Your Own Enterprise

In ‘Obese Data’, one may be left with the impression that the extra-IT data and programming initiatives have created an unmanageable mess.

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Obese Data

One of the buzzwords running around the IT universe these days is ‘Big Data’.

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Charles Murray and the NEETs

Charles Murray is the author of “Belmont and Fishtown”, a book that delves at some length into a collection of social mores that have emerged since the 1960s.

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Living In A Trade Surplus Economy

The United States has been running trade deficits since the 1960s, at various times with Germany, Japan, South Korea, and most recently China.

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The Collapse of the Infrastructure Economy

Texas was once crisscrossed by railroads.

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Slow Cook Programming

There are times when one is reading the recruiting ads that one wants to just hammer some of the hype. ‘Fast Paced’, ‘Dynamic’, ‘Game Changing’, etc.

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The Stinkin Pile

This is inspired by a WSJ article, which I couldn’t read online ‘cause I’m not a subscriber, but it doesn’t take much searching to find much of the material they started with.

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The Russians Are Coming!

Those of you who play Risk may remember a “country” named Yakutsk. This is more precisely a Russian province in Siberia. Until recently, it has been a pretty isolated location.

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The Boomer Legacy

Supposedly the first baby boomer was born in May of 1946, if you consider the end of WW II to be September 1945.