Archive for November, 2008

Thanksgiving Firecall

Well yesterday turned out to be a pretty busy day.  I was just getting finished with the turkey and stuffing, and the pager went off.  The Jamestown Sun had a brief article about it up before I even got home, and today they linked a YouTube vid.  Left home around 2:30pm, and got back sometime [...]

Friday, November 28th, 2008

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving to all who visit this site!  I would like to thank all of my readers, new and old, for visiting this site.
I am thankful this year to my fellow bloggers for their assistance, inspiration, and support.  I hope everyone has a safe and fun holiday today!
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Thursday, November 27th, 2008

A Primer on Monetization

Jake and I agreed to swap guest posts, so I find myself writing for you all here at Jake’s Corner.  If you aren’t familiar with me already, I normally can be found writing at my home site of Thatedeguy.com.
One of the things that Jake and I have been discussing a lot lately as he ramped [...]

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008

Guest Posting

This week I will be having a guest poster here on Olorinpc.com.  ThatEdeGuy and I are doing a post exchange.  I just finished writing my post for his site, so make sure to check out ThatEdeGuy.com tomorrow!  Keep an eye out this week for Ede’s post here!

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Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

Costs of a bailout

Cory over at Boing Boing has been doing some research on the costs associated with all of these bailouts.
In doing the research for the “Bailout Nation” book, I needed a way to put the dollar amounts into proper historical perspective.
If we add in the Citi bailout, the total cost now exceeds $4.6165 trillion dollars.
People have [...]

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

Blogging Assistant Today

Since I am working on blogging today.  (Being that I am off of work for the whole week.)  I am working in my upstairs office.
This has given me an assistant today.  He is an excellent foot warmer, along with being very agreeable on my post ideas.
Say hello to Sparky!

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Monday, November 24th, 2008

Better Blogging

I believe being part of the blogging world means sharing.  I decided to do a post on how to blog better.  I have learned many things from my fellow bloggers out there.  Some have been from huge popular blogs, and some have been from smaller blogs like my own.
There are a number of sites that [...]

Monday, November 24th, 2008

Why Socialism is evil

I finally found the comic I have been looking for that best illustrates my view of socialism and its implementation.

From Mark Perry’s blog. “Helping one’s fellow man in need, by reaching into one’s own pockets, is a laudable and praiseworthy goal. Doing the same through coercion and reaching into another’s pockets has no redeeming features [...]

Friday, November 21st, 2008

Jefferson quote on reading newspapers

It was the quote of the day today. I added it to my Quotes plugin that displays a random quote on my right-most side bar. I like to find quotes that means something to me and share them there… today I found one interesting enough to do a post on.
The man who reads [...]

Friday, November 21st, 2008

Auto Bailout on Hold – Good

Well word has come down.  Any sort of bailout for the automakers is on hold at the moment.
“Until they show us the plan, we cannot show them the money,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said at a hastily called news conference in the Capitol. “Hopefully in another week or two we can see a plan.” [...]

Thursday, November 20th, 2008