December - End of Year Thoughts
Season’s Greetings and Best Wishes for the New Year!
Our November Small Business Forum was lightly attended. If you recall, there were threats of freezing rain throughout the day. As it turned out, we had a nice little get together with a few friends, sharing stories and poems. We made a short night of it avoiding complications from the inclement weather.
If you have been following any of the hype surrounding Microsoft’s latest operating system, “Vista”, you have to be wondering what is going on in Renton? As a former programmer and systems analyst I have been watching this unfold with great skepticism. I must say this is probably the worse release of a bloated operating system, ever. What galls me is that Microsloth has bragged about how many millions of dollars and thousands of new IT jobs will be created as a result of this new product. Since when is the need for more service techs a good thing for consumers? If it is so complex and buggy as to require all of this added infrastructure, then count me out. Remember, you, the consumer will be ponying up the millions of dollars required to maintain these thousands of new jobs. A fellow observer, Ron Wackerly, sends this link on the problems Vista will create just in one area of hardware: http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.txt
Joan Stewart publishes a wonderful site, http://www.publicityhound.com/, appropriately named. If you are looking for ways to promote your business, be sure to link up with this site. She also publishes an eBook http://tinyurl.com/y4dnwr filled with hints and tips you can start using today to promote your business. Please check it out.
Lastly, what would a Small Business Forum Post be without links to some of our latest videos? Here are 2 we shot in Washington DC this past October:
The Incident in the Oval Office; The Incident at Farragut Park
