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POPSWhat a Contrast After watching Cindy McCain and Sahar Palin repeating the mud slinging on the campaign trail, how refreshing to see that one of the women principles of the campaign still has some class left.
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POPSThe Left's Fierce Hostility to Sarah Palin's Fecundity Every woman has the "right to choose" her own path through life, but it's a lazy assumption to take for granted that most Americans find Sarah Palin's choices as freakish as our metropolitan elites do. What was it the feminists used to say? "You can have it all." Sarah Palin is a mom, and the first female governor of her state. But the enforcers at the National Organization of Women dismiss her as "more a conservative man than she is a woman". Golly. These days, NOW seems to have as narrow and proscriptive a view of what women are permitted to be as any old 1950s sitcom dad.
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POPSThe CAP Center This is my site, and the purpose is to help students with career choices and school subjects. Students have told me they have actually improved their letter grade by one grade just by using my site. Hope you enjoy it!
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POPSMBA India Offers information about MBA institutes, admission and MBA jobs in India.
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POPSThe Soul of the Commuter Roughly one out of every six American workers commutes more than forty-five minutes, each way. People travel between counties the way they used to travel between neighborhoods. Until recently, I was one of these Americans. What started out as an invigorating drive through new urban environs eventually became repetitious and wearisome. Even though I was careful to fill my time with music, podcasts, audio-books, or phone calls, I don't miss this daily aggravation at all now, instead embracing the freedom public transportation confers. (Trains can be your friends...who knew? :).) The mental relaxation that comes with not being on constant heightened alert for all the unpredictable hazards is priceless and has returned a small measure of serenity to my life I thought I had lost. What do clippers think? Are extended commutes worth their return? Given its finite supply, shouldn't most of us be valuing our precious time higher?
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POPSViewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace
This is of particular interest to me, as I am new to Facebook (though I had been curious after learning of their widget API), and I was at first amazed at the loops I had to jump through to add a friend. I do not have a single e-mail address as a point of contact, and that is what had bound students to their colleges, and then high schools. It is important to note how members of socio-economic classes view each other. Honestly, it makes me want to invite every person I know of, to flood the user base with my peers. The thing that bothers me (besides my own biases and reactionary behavior in this matter) is that I don't know if I am an accurate representative of the lower classes as I may have been in the past. The technorati, that is the banner I fly under, and it is something to consider as I make choices in my career and hobbies that will no doubt create an impact beyond my immediate environment. This really makes me want to teach computer classes.
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POPSManaging Knowledge Means Managing Oneself Drucker is a genius. Basic sense of the article is that to manage organizational knowledge, you need to know what to value. Values are personal. Its an intriguing and thoughtful article worth reading.
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POPSWhat wives want Apparently this study has been getting some buzz, though I missed it until now. Two Christian sociologists find that wives are happiest if they (in no particular order): stay home hold "traditional gender attitudes" attend church with their husbands have a "good breadwinner" for a husband have an "emotionally engaged" husband share the housework "fairly" (note: not "equally") It seems like the first and fourth points could be translated into, "be married to someone who makes a lot of money." The whole thing seems to add up to, "be a conservative Christian." No info on methodology. Wives? Husbands? Comments?
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POPSJava and .NET We have had a lot of these same discussions at my current organization. From what I have seen generally people break down into two camps: one that believes that lots of choices are good and one that believes that lots of choices are bad. The one that believes that choices are good prefer Java and their argument is that with lots of constantly evolving chainces you are always going to be able to deploy the best possible technology for any situation. The one that believes that choices are bad are the .NET folks who believe that all of those frameworks and IDE's do nothing but muddy the water and fragment the energy that is being put into the overall development experience. They argue that as long as you do it the Microsoft way your development experience will always be more productive than the Java development experience. Personally I don't so much believe in Java as fear single vendor lock in.
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