http://www.quantummechanist.com/JLR Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:43:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Roses are red, says the poem, and violets are blue, but in fact roses come in almost every shade of the rainbow, including blue.   If you search, you can find yellow roses, which originated in the Middle East, pink roses (the original damask roses), white roses (alba species), traditional ... http://www.quantummechanist.com/JLR/?p=9 Many companies now tie their online reputation to business outcomes through online reputation tracking tools. For example, using social media tools like Google alerts and Technorati, public relations professionals can identify and ameliorate negative influences on corporate reputation and branding efforts.   While the idea of reputation is not new, ... http://www.quantummechanist.com/JLR/?p=8 The government recently reported that January job losses topped 17,000 – the first monthly decline since August, 2003. The report was widely cited, but the figure is insignificant, representing only about .001 percent of U.S. jobs. Of greater importance is chronic unemployment, which Congress calls the most useful indication of ... http://www.quantummechanist.com/JLR/?p=7 The root of all evil isn’t money, it is power; money is just the visible extension of power.  You can see it everywhere in our crippled society; a boss is rude to his assistant, a customer is rude to (i.e., abusive to) a waiter or a sales clerk, a husband is ... http://www.quantummechanist.com/JLR/?p=6 Beginning in the mid-1800’s, we made Native Americans take ‘Christian’ names. These were the names we put on the role for their rations (and, much later, for their welfare payments). These were the names they took to our schools, where we taught them to speak English; where we forced them ... http://www.quantummechanist.com/JLR/?p=5 The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it. ~Ernest Hemingway   http://www.quantummechanist.com/JLR/?p=1