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Re: George Osborne's first Budget was a low-key success. Not a bad day for the Coalition

timbury — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:10:17 -0000

You're quite welcome. I only wish I knew what you were referring to. :)

Re: Planning Business Continuity: Electronic Document Management Considerations

timbury — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 16:07:22 -0000

Businesses and individuals need to plan a migration to Open Document Formats if they are to ensure maximum portability, ease of access, guaranteed continuity of access, and ease of collaboration as well. Wednesday, March 31st is global Document Freedom Day.

Re: Lost in the fog | The Millionaire Approach

timbury — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:34:24 -0000

Great post, Jeff! The biggest challenge I face on a day to day basis is a financial one. I'm a techie, not a marketer. I have lots of projects on the "someday" list, but my cash flow is negative. I need to generate income now, without any further investment (cause there's nothing left to invest). I have a plan for my current efforts, and sticking to it helps me out of the fog. Now, if it would just help me out of debt.

Re: Single Parents Aren’t Earning Enough

timbury — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:08:54 -0000

I don't suggest that all parents, whatever their gender, fall into these categories, but many do. Aside from the dozen or so cases I've encountered personally, one only needs to take a brief perusal of blogs, Myspace and Facebook profiles to see how many young girls (and, much more rarely, boys) are planning single parenthood, often without any desire for a relationship at all. Who gave these youngsters the idea this was a good thing?

Yes, birth control is a valid choice for a man. But the woman, who will bear the child and the ultimate responsibility if that man disappears, would be wise to make sure he is using it if she is not. I can also tell you of cases where a woman wanted a child and lied to a man about her birth control usage.

There *are* many reasons for single parenthood. But choice didn't use to be one of them, as it is now.

Re: Single Parents Aren’t Earning Enough

timbury — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:55:11 -0000

I know this isn't going to be popular, but I'm not a fan of political correctness.

The number one way to help alleviate this problem is to encourage young women to find a responsible partner first, then have children. There is a reason why couples raise children (I don't personally care what sexual orientation). Mentorship and outreach used to come from the extended family, another lost concept in America. I find this current trend in our culture disturbing, the assumption that a woman (or a man) can "have it all". If a woman *chooses* (lack of birth control is a choice, ladies) to have a baby as a single mother, she'd better be prepared to deal with the responsibility. Likewise, those folks who take divorce lightly. Let us add those who have more children than they can afford to raise.

When did community sponsorship for irresponsible behavior become the norm?

Now... before you click "reply" and loose the flames of damnation on me...

I am the first person to reach out and help those in need, offering generously of my meager financial and temporal resources. If someone is "in a pickle" (as I have been many times), I offer empathy and sometimes more. I support family leave, flex time, and other programs to make it easier on *any* parent(s). But please, let's not continue down the road of entitlement any further.

Re: Users: 10,000+! Reach: over 20 million

timbury — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 02:57:31 -0000

Thanks for the new email alert filtering. It's a big help in reducing low-ball offers. Keep up the good work!

Re: Top 23 Insured Celebrity Bodyparts

timbury — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:07:42 -0000

Why is Rod Stewart's $$ equivalence given from the 1940's? He was only just born in 1945. :)

Re: Think Big Manifesto – video book review

timbury — Thu, 14 May 2009 10:25:29 -0000

Geez, Chris! I wish you had posted this 3 days ago. I ordered Book Yourself Solid 2 days ago. I could have ordered both and saved on shipping! :)

Re: Help Loic Le Meur (Seesmic) and John Furrier (Silicon Angle) find new hosting

timbury — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 15:22:05 -0000

I've recently started a hosting company geared towards small businesses and individuals. My customers so far are individual bloggers. I'm reselling space on a MediaTemple VPS account. For larger entities, like Seesmic, I would highly recommend MediaTemple. Rackspace looks very good, but I have no personal experience with them.

For someone like John, my service at http://timbury.net would be perfect. It's small, cheaper than any other shared hosting I've seen (including MT's), yet scalable because I'm on the MT grid. I can offer the same MT technology at a lower price and with personal service. If his needs outgrew my capacity, it would be a simple process to switch him to his own VPS.

Btw, my cell # comes to every Premium subscriber. :)

Thanks, Robert, for the opportunity to throw my two coins of the realm in.

Re: cre8Buzz Re-Do: First Things First

timbury — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:38:09 -0000

If I had a dime to spare or knew someone who did...! But I do have some modest tech skills and you already know I'm committed to helping the Buzz succeed however I can.

Re: Family Land

timbury — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:38:23 -0000

In a society that embraces constant change over tradition and stability, that is just too cool! I've never lived in one place longer than 3 years since I was 16. There is no family land. That's really something to be held on to.

Re: Social Space Station

timbury — Sun, 11 May 2008 20:24:56 -0000

Hmmm... where's the post? These two statements barely qualify as a comment. There's nothing here of any substance. This is my first visit to this site. It's not that I don't 'get it'; there's nothing here to get. Perhaps I'll launch a site called... Word. Perhaps to make it more Web 2.0, I'll call it Werde (rhymes with a French synonym). I'll post one word each day and ask for comments. I'd love to stay and chat, but I need to get Werde up.

Re: Your Help Requested- Planning a Small Series

timbury — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 08:31:28 -0000

Hi, Chris!

Could you include material on how a work-from-home freelance consultant could best use social media to build a client base and give existing clients better value.

Thanks.

Re: Prologue is More Than We Are Considering

timbury — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 09:38:04 -0000

I haven't played with it yet (never enough time!), but I'm wondering: There are already plugins for wordpress to use Twitter from WP. Now, Prologue tweets inside the wall. Isn't this just the classic intra/internet setup? Couldn't the two be tied together and internal and external communications be determined by user rights, system policies, etc.? Twitlogue? Pritter?

I think this could be very useful in many areas, I only wish I had the time to play with this stuff. ;-)

Re: Build your own Online Databases for FREE!

timbury — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:02:33 -0000

I've been meaning to check out Zoho for some time now. Your views are encouraging. I'm concerned with the rights to the data, however. Is there anything in the TOS that gives Zoho any rights to users' data? Non-liability for misuse/loss of data and other issues make me think this is a fine idea for someone publishing data to the general public, but not for serious business use.

Re: Have the Data Wars Begun

timbury — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 11:41:44 -0000

I think this whole issue is ridiculous! But it's a sign of how we as citizens allow governments and corporations to bully us. My mind's data is my data. Information about any relationships I've formed is entirely my own, regardless of what tools I've used to achieve those. I'd like to continue this rant, but I think I'll blog about it on my own site.
Excellent post, Chris! Stay strong Robert!
Power to the People! ;-)