Not only do you have to think out of the box.
You have to GET out of the box.

Mix Berkeley and Sausalito, California and you have Devonport, New Zealand.

Along with my thoughts of bailing from America, I also think of living on a Caribbean Island . . . one that doesn’t get smacked by hurricanes.

Here we go again . . . now there’s “Twitter for Business.” Read what Chris Brogan has to say about them by backtracking to his site, or herein.

If you are marketing anything, you might want to visit Seth Godin’s blog. Or read one of his books.

Who knew. A friend just asked how I am and I realized that I’m frightened. I have never never never been frightened, even through some quite dramatic and frightening experiences.

So much for google’s automatic ad placements . . . and if you have a Wells Fargo loan, or are thinking of doing business with them, you may want to read this article.

Dual citizenship is something I’ve thought about for many years, given that my ancestors are from Germany and from Ireland, a country/people that I love. Now, with the real estate crises in the U.S., I may have to retire elsewhere in any case . . .

From the Santa Rosa Press Democrat: “James Madison peers into the window of the empty Santa Rosa home, quickly calculating numbers in his head . . . a week earlier, the owner lost the home, unable to pay the mortgage any longer.”

For decades, we have been underwriting people with substantial sums of money through various apparently non-effective welfare programs. It will be less expensive and more effective to use funds to keep people in housing rather than to short-sell or foreclose. The repercussions of that will cost more than it would to help them in the first place.