Everyone wants someone else to pay taxes. Today in the New York Times the most popular article is "The Paradox of Corporate Taxes in America" - http://nyti.ms/hcEbQ . It's so easy to say , "Their rich, make them pay my taxes." But what if they pay more taxes and you lose your job because to pay the higher taxes they can't afford you. Now all they can afford is to have your job done in India. We are not rational and that no one realizes the long term effects. Sadly everyone is selfish … [Read more...]

Who cares what pro football players make?  They make so damn much money anyway. I am surprised the NFL is doing away with this program.  I think all pro sports should have something like this.  They keep track of all kinds of stats it should be easy to figure out what performance brings the most money to and organization. check out the article to see what you think. No performance-based pay for guys who did a lot at little salary | ProFootballTalk http://bit.ly/e5AGSy I just … [Read more...]

While I thought a bunch of what happened while George Jr was in the White House. However, the NSPS (National Security Personnel System) was a good idea. Even Obama advocates a similar system for public school teachers. Teacher Pay RedesignThere has been some press about the death of the NSPS. It is basically a pay-for-performance systems implemented at the defense department. I am a bit saddened by the happy tone of the reporters touting the failure of the system. Here are a couple of … [Read more...]

This is a very interesting video. If what he is saying is true we all need to think a bit more about how we present our products and services. … [Read more...]

I found this site with a twitter API developers group. Twitter Problems Google group … [Read more...]

I've had a developers wave account since July 2009.  I finally got an invite a couple of weeks ago.  I invited a few of my friends and I have a couple of invites if you are interested.  I found this video which explains it very well and is entertaining too. … [Read more...]

Gearing up for a contest next week. Be on the look out. Going to be giving a couple of Lucky people a value able gift. … [Read more...]

Oh yea I know Brett Farve is really old. And He still has the heart of a Champion. It was amazing that they won the game. They don't even show the #1 play here. But what what The #3 highlight does. That is truly amazing. I'm glad ESPN put this on the net and is letting me put it on my blog. Enjoy … [Read more...]

Another anecdotal story about Owner thinking. Running around, like chickens sans a head, two partners had started a company. They were spending 12-14 hours a day just to get a few orders out the door. They had a bunch of employees and One employee did nothing but try and keep track of the orders. And they were just barley scraping by making about $20,000 a month. If a customer had a problem, they didn't get help and became a lost customer. Step in the web guy/ savior / accidental … [Read more...]

With fear and interpretation I decided to waste my day at another government office. I arrived at the tax and registration building with a book in hand prepared to spend an uncomfortable amount of time waiting to get this handled. I arrived the Travis County tax office; the parking lot was full, and as usual was met by a woman with a monotone voice. She asked me a few questions and then handed me my number. I looked up on the board and saw I was the third in line. Wow? I didn't have time … [Read more...]