phyllostachys 77: Minute Tech 62 Show Transcript

62 - What is Tatting?

Good morning, this is Alex Landefeld with episode 62 of the Minute Tech podcast -

coming to you for Thursday, January 10th, 2008

On this tech podcast about the broader meanings of technology, we'll mention:

- Trading CES for MacWorld;
- Minute Tech Guest Carol Burrows on What is Tatting?
- Career Anchors - Discovery Your Real Values.

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Tech News:

The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas has been the hot topic this past week, with the MacWorld conference at San Francisco's Moscone Center following hot on its heels next week. Apple, Inc. is the focus of both.

Much to the chagrin of the PC world, the electronics world has been lit on fire by competition with Apple's iPhone, Apple's purported Touch tablet, Apple's purported Flash notebook PC, and the very real release this week of Apple's 8-core Mac Pro and Xserve computer systems.

And how is this affecting Apple's stock price? It should be sending it through the roof once again...but recessionary thoughts and geopolitical fears are gripping the markets, so Apple's hot air balloon will take a bit of time to rise through the morass.

Robert Brodie, posting on CNBC's Rapid Recall online column, with an article titled "Trading the Technorati", says that the market declines of Apple, Google and Research in Motion are occurring "during a time that's typically strong for tech." Brodie suggested staying away from Tech...but suggests that Corning is a potential buy, as they will be producing the glass for all those 103-, 108- and 150-inch plasma displays, the last of which was just released by Panasonic.

Tech Question: What is Tatting?

Minute Tech guest Carol Burrows, on "What is Tatting?" , takes us on a tour of a world she's infinitely familiar with. Do you have a world you're infinitely familiar with? Please send me a note at minutetech@gmail.com.

Podcasting - Blogging News:

In every surf through the web I come across many streams. Check out "dotnetaddict.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com" for Kevin Hoffman's blog posts on Windows and Mac programming. I came across this when linking to his post about the Apple Developers Connection, an org for learning to program in Cocoa and Objective-C for the Leopard and iPhone platforms.

Every moment, it seems, that I'm away from podcasting or blogging, I'm thinking, thinking, thinking of ideas, concepts & implementations. I want to create, create, create...but only so much time in the day exists for reading, surfing, thinking, creating, interacting with your kids/family/peers, working, commuting, editing, perusing, considering, and, of course, consuming and eliminating.

I'm changing "jobs" shortly...and this whole spirit of change grips me like a vise-grip:

- why change,
- how to change,
- is change a static thing or a continual thing,
- how can I change,
- how can you change

One cannot begin to contain all the energies swirling...but one can reach out to help others. A recent e-mail to a colleague, about ways that he could engender his own career change involved the following thought process.

"[A friend] asked me to return a wine book...and I mentioned that I have lots
of books [through which I'd have to search for it]...so many, in fact, that some I've never seen before. I just
now came across a book called "Career Anchors - Discovering Your Real
Values", by Edgar H. Schein. It's a very interesting study (from MIT)
on how to identify the strengths in what you like to do within
organizations, and how to move forward once you've identified these
things.

Here's a thought: you seem to have a huge "lifestyle" orientation.
Consider developing guides to the Ohio Valley for those people who do
recreational boating and/or who ride ATV's. Such guides could
initially involve having a website with a blog and/or wiki, and could
include maps and social networking themes (linking, photos, videos,
etc.)...since people who get outdoors like to network socially! This
could be "huge", if you consider pursuing it.

Just developing this sort of thing, whether "for the public good" or
for profit, will get you noticed in ways you cannot possibly
predict...I guarantee it!"

This e-mail message follows a lament by a colleague about how job changes by others seem to be leaving him in a static situation. My desire is to change this perception of his about his situation - the possibilities really are endless, one just must think outside the proverbial box.

Would you agree?

That's all for today on Minute Tech podcast.
you can reach me at minutetech@gmail.com -
and my blog is at minutetech.blogspot.com

"Move with the motion of the planet - move with Taiji"

- Trading CES for MacWorld;
- Minute Tech Guest Carol Burrows on What is Tatting?
- Career Anchors - Discovery Your Real Values.

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