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Posted By: The Tim <tim@thetimtimes.com> In Response To: Horrifyingly off-topic note for The Tim: (Michael J McMillan)
Friday, 25 February 2005, at 6:34 a.m.
My original intent on my last update was to wait until I could point to one confirmed thing that was identifiable as an improvement to 'homeland security' IN MY AREA before updating. I'm still waiting. The blog links that run down the left get updated more often, but still not as timely as I'd like. I went through a Timages (photo) phase not too long ago where I posted to that more frequently. I'm a lot more 'visible' locally because of my participation in talk radio than my website. I orginally got involved in the webstuff to teach myself the very basics of web dev/ftp etc. I'm one of a handful of guys MY AGE who have any clue about this newfangled technology, but I'm no expert, more of a jack of all-master of none. I like to tell my customers that I wasn't hired for my technical ability, I was hired because I'm over 40 and know how to spell internet. That, and the company I represent preferred representation from someone who didn't have an earring thru their nose!
I do use the site more than you might notice though. I get half a gig of storage space and a pretty good chuck of bandwidth, so I sometimes mirror a good political video clip or movie file. Then I post or email a direct link to the file for folks I think would be interested.
I can assure you my site would be state of the art if I spent 10% of the time on it that I spend 'playing' golf! And one last thing. A true business tip. If I were REMOTELY interested in making money off my site like the majority of you guys are, I'd PAY SOMEBODY WITH MORE TALENT THAN ME to build it. I wouldn't be trying to profit with a 'one of many' cookie cutter dizzop offering.
Enjoy.
> Tim, I just had a browse of your site. I'm terribly slow about updating,
> but I believe you've got me beat. The dates suggest you haven't updated
> since 2002. No news fit to print since then???
> Note: My op-ed page has been recently updated, but I'm afraid the rest is
> a tad ancient. I'll have to work on that.
> Oh, yes. About this topic. I seem to remember once having invested a sum
> of money based on the idea that, even if I lost it, it wouldn't hurt that
> much. (Wrong, it hurt like a fury because nobody this side of Bill Gates
> can drop several hundred and not miss it.) These days, I've learned
> caution-- sometimes perhaps too cautious-- and overall it's served to keep
> me out of bad ideas posing as wonder moneymakers.
> Here's a good general rule. If you get something that promises big money
> for little or no real work, ask "Ok, then what, exactly, are they
> paying me for??". The reason for this question is because no
> legitimate business is shelling out money to folk who are primarily
> sitting at home waiting for a paycheck. A similar question to ask:
> "Why is this company hiring all these people??". MLMs tend to
> lard up on people far in excess of any legitimate business need. There is
> simply no way the market is going to support a large company selling
> vitamins or health shakes or the latest thing to come across my email,
> namely those air purifiers. Especially if you have to sell at a large
> markup to feed an upline.
Sensibility Without The Static
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