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Ok, the Walkman just turned 30… Crap I’m old. I remember getting my walkman.. it was the coolest thing ever. So much better than my big black cassette player. It also made me a cutting edge 9 year old (got mine a couple years after it was released). Now I could get those super assume cassettes, instead of records!

Now just to make it more said, the BBC had a kid give up his iPod for a Walkman for a week. Which is a bit of a funny story….

• What a crazy few days. Had a huge branch drop on the power lines last night. Meeting went well. Power went out Friday. All is odd right now! #
• GodLeftaMessage.com has over 300 followers now! Have been talking to a few people trying to get more to share the messages. #
• Friday meeting… Normally I have to tap dance… I guess if you have good news in this economy, you don't have too. #
• Something is up at work… Can't put my finger on it. I think it is good for me.. Guess I will find out sooner or later. #

• time to get ready for the BBQ tonight with the neighbors. #
• ug… I have a meeting tomorrow. I don't really want to go… #
• Read reciepts are fun if the end-user has no choice in the matter… Just had somebody "delete without reading"… Nice to know. #

• time to get ready for the BBQ tonight with the neighbors. #
• ug… I have a meeting tomorrow. I don't really want to go… #
• Read reciepts are fun if the end-user has no choice in the matter… Just had somebody "delete without reading"… Nice to know. #

Comscore has released the search market shares for this week and Bing.com is up to 12.1%. It is good to see some competition for Google in search, next needs to be advertising. Competition is good for the market and just like Microsoft needs Apple and Google to compete in the OS maket, Google needs some competition in search and advertising.

Microsoft Sites Search Performance
Work Week: 5/25/09 – 6/12/09
Total U.S. – Home/Work/University Locations
Source: comScore qSearch

Work Week

5/25/09-5/29/09
6/1/09-6/5/09
6/8/09-6/12/09

Searcher Penetration (Avg. Daily)
13.7%
15.8%
16.7%

Share of Search Result Pages
9.1%
11.3%
12.1%

• HAd a great weekend celebrating Dan’s 7th birthday. Can’t beleive he is 7 now! Wow time just keeps going. Time to get down to work… #
• I often wonder “why”… Though it seems to mostly happens at work. Today was one of those days. #
• The up and downs of work… I asked “Why” a lot again today. I am also more confused than ever when it comes to work! #
• 99% of the time my ideas are created; just by other companies. PTC Windchill has just gone more social http://www.deskeng.com/articles/aaarj #

I enjoy playing our Xbox 360 and choose it over the Wii and PS3 for my son (daughter is to young to play). I did like the idea of the Wii and hoped Microsoft would create something like the motion controller, but this is way beyond anything I dreamed up! I saw the E3 preview, but Engadget just put up the video of it being played on the Jimmy Fallon show (didn’t even know he had one). Check this out and considering my sons jaw dropping when he watched, I think it will be a success.

Below is the Jimmy Fallon video.

• Listening to relavantradio on the web. I sometimes forget how powerful Archbishop Fulton Sheen was. #
• Time to start my insane day. 6-7 hour meeting in Newport News VA. Then I have to be in Durham, NC for a 9:30am meeting Wednesday. More Later #
• And now my 12 hour day (8 work, 4 driving) is done… I started off in Newport News, VA and ended in Durham, NC… Tomorrow more of the same #
• Time to start day 2 of the marathon work week. Durham, NC to near Florence, SC to Charlotte, NC. With several customers in between. #
• Another long day of meetings and travel is over… Now to catch up on emails and messages…. I am tired. #
• This should get interesting. I just sent my ROI calculator out to the whole company. #
• Didn’t take long!Got the first negative for no reason comments. Doesn’t matter, I don’t listen to negative much anymore. #

There are a few economic terms that I just love…

Rational Ignorance – You spend more time choosing you TV than your elected officials.

Diminishing Return – When you’ve gone past any more effort being useful.

So I now propose “Ignorance Returns” as a new term. Since both are important to understanding our government.

Ignorance Returns – The reelection of Congressman, Senators and the President. Or that we allow the same people who voted them in to vote again.

Oh, did I mention we all owe $36,000 person, we are spending too much, that we are out of money, are printing money so fast it will cause inflation, that we will be $20 trillion in debt 10 years from now, are close to loosing the AAA rating the US has, probably going to bailout the fiscally irresponsible states (California – I’m looking at you), have a $50 trillion future expenses, the world is discussing not using the dollar as the global standard and nobody knows or gets why this is bad?

But never mind, your kids will pay for this… and their kids…. and their kids… and their kids.

They will pay the debt. They will pay with a ruined economy. They will pay by no longer being the world power. They will pay by reaping what has been sown by a hundred years of US diplomacy, military supremacy and economic dominance. They will know what it is like to be the weaker party.

Eh… who cares as long as we get our stimulus check, the next iPod and can text our vote into American Idol.

Ok rant over….

I was reading TechCrunch this morning and was surprised to see the review for Microsoft’s new search engine Bing. Bing is the replacement for Live Search. I haven’t had a chance to try it out much, but so far it is much needed improvement over Live search. Not sure if it has hit the Google level yet, but I’ll use Bing for my main search engine just like I used Live.

Well give Bing a try and see what you think. I’ll make my assessment after a few days of use.