July 2008
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Day 3 - July 10, 2008
Trip Meter - 409.1 miles
California has had the earliest wildfire season in recent memory. Usually, inhabitants are in the position of disabusing distant relatives of their impressions that the state is entirely burning up. So far, though, this trip has brought us close to the Big Sur wildfires spreading smoke and ash over the usually pure Monterrey Bay area and, yesterday, a surprise fire on...
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Dispelling the Myths of Summer →
Excellent NYT article about the economy and myths about the economy. As someone who is riding the high seas in a rubber life dinghy, I am living this news as well as following it. I particularly commend the couple paragraphs describing the US educational system and the “innovation deficit.”
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Online Social Networking & Actual Relationships →
I am hearing more and more anecdotes about social media resulting in real life events and relationships. Headline of this post links to one example reported recently on NPR. Possibly, the fact I am hearing about it only now is coincidental, but I find it encouraging nevertheless.
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Technology: It's Where the Jobs Are →
A new survey from industry group AeA demonstrates the existence of a persistent, structural talent gap in the technology fields. - Business Week
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Autumn Marathon
My name is Jason Horowitz and this is my blog. So-ooo, what else is new?
A little over a month ago, my job was eliminated by my employer of ten years, Sun Microsystems, Inc. In part, this blog will be about a midlife career change; though I can’t pretend at this point that is a unique or even an unusual topic. I am definitely not the first, nor will I be the last, middle-aged...