Words....

Tweet I saw this video in United Way Loaned Executive Training this week and found it kind of...

Bring Me the News–When it Happens:...

Tweet The days of searching through reams of newspaper print for stories that are applicable to our lives are in their twilight.  RSS feeds (aka blogs) and Google Alerts change the way that valuable information is delivered.  In this segment, I would like to specifically deal with Google Alerts and how they can change our information flow.  For several years, I have used Google Alerts to comb the Internet for specific topics, and basically I thought of the alerts as a little geek secret.  However,...

My Apologies TDOT...

Tweet I don’t mean to complain… A while ago, I posted a complaint about TDOT’s inability to hang signs correctly.  While exiting from 129 N (Alcoa Highway) onto Kingston Pike, the warning sign for the red light is hung upside down.  As noted in that piece, not only is the sign upside down, a crew had to go back to this sign to affix a warning sign about the traffic cameras AND STILL DID NOT FIX THE OBVIOUSLY CARELESS JOB. This week while driving down Vanosdale/Buckingham to Kingston Pike,...

Engaging...

Tweet What the heck?  On the Today show this morning, two guys proposed to their girlfriends.  I guess they are going to load up in the Jetta and drive to Gatlinburg and get married in a chapel to further their trite relationship.  The proposal will endure the relationship and be told hundreds of times (provided that the marriage lasts longer than the digital camera used to memorialize the event).  Maybe they could go on a cruise with all of the other Today engagemees; the couples could all tell the...