At Journey’s End, a Marine Is Mourned. The ripples caused by the deaths in this brief war have changed lives in Mosul, in London, and, with Sgt. Riayan Tejeda’s death, in Washington Heights. By Dan Barry. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]
Let’s use a weblog to build a brand….
A few people — like Joshua over at the Boston Globe — keyed into the fact that I got my job partly because of my weblog.
My number one advice to everyone around me who is laid off is “teach us something.”
Why is this so important? Well, you are a brand. That’s a Tom Peterism to be sure, but it’s true.
How do you get to be better known in the industry? Teach!
Why do I think Don Box is the geek god of all gods? Because he got up on stage, time after time after time (sometimes naked even!) and taught thousands of people all sorts of things.
Listen, if you’re laid off, you have a choice. Do I just sit on the couch and watch Oprah, or do I do something with my life?
Why not write a tip a day until you get a new job? Teach us something useful. Maybe nobody will point to it. Maybe no one will care. But, let’s say you’re laid off for three months, you’ll have published about 90 tips.
At least you’ll have something to look back on and feel proud about after you get your job. Now, compare that to watching Oprah. You haven’t left any of your knowledge here. You haven’t helped your “brand.”
one more nail pounded through the dessicated corpse of Netscape….
A Reliable Informant tells me that all email addresses ending in “netscape.com” will be going away within the next week or so: everyone in the Netscape division will now be required to use AOL Mail!
Presumably the “mozilla.org” folks will be able to hang on to those addresses, but damn. As I understand it, AOL mail doesn’t even have folders, and the maximum data retention is some small number of days: after that, your mail just vaporizes. Whee!
By jwz@jwz.org. [jwz]
Off to Austin, Texas via Chicago, Illinois for vacation.
Blogging will be light and most likely done offline with occasional uploads.
Enjoy!
I hate being sick
I hate being sick
I hate being sick
’nuff said
I just got an email from my aunt, the most robust 92 year old I’ve ever known (with the exception of her mother, who lived to 107), pointing to a reported exchange between John Glenn and Howard Metzenbaum in which Metzenbaum pitched one of the dumbest soft-ball questions in political history: How can you run for Senate when you’ve never held a ‘real job?’ Glenn hit it out of the park:
I served 23 years in the United States Marine Corps. I served through two wars. I flew 149 missions. My plane was hit by anti-aircraft fire on 12 different occasions. I was in the space program. It wasn’t my checkbook; it was my life on the line. It was not a 9 to 5 job where I took time off to take the daily cash receipts to the bank. I ask you to go with me… as I went the other day… to a Veterans Hospital and look at those men with their mangled bodies in the eye and tell them they didn’t hold a job. You go with me to the space program and go as I have gone to the widows and orphans of Ed White and Gus Grissom and Roger Chaffee and you look those kids in the eye and tell them that their dad didn’t hold a job. You go with me on Memorial Day coming up, and you stand in Arlington National Cemetery, where I have more friends than I’d like to remember — and you watch those waving flags, and you stand there, and you think about this nation, and you tell me that those people didn’t have a job.
I’ll tell you, Howard Metzenbaum, you should be on your knees every day of your life thanking God that there were some men — SOME MEN — who held a job. And they required a dedication to purpose and a love of country and a dedication to duty that was more important than life itself. Their self-sacrifice is what made this country possible.
I HAVE HELD A JOB, HOWARD! What about you?
Semper fi, Senator.
Who Owns the Rules of War?. The war in Iraq demands a rethinking of the international rules of conduct. By Kenneth Anderson. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]