Black Friday?

Well, today will lead to something. NTP and RIM will be in court today to hear the judge's ruling on a possible shutdown of Blackberry services in the U.S. There are lots of stray threads on this one, any one of which could change the outcome of the case. So, we'll watch the news wires and, more importantly, that little red light on the top of the Blackberry that says we have new mail.

Bunny Wailer was part of Bob Marley's band before starting a solo career in the mid-70s. On the way to work the other day, I heard Wailer perform that old folk standard "This Train." There's one reader on this list who will cringe when thinking about that song. He and I lived through the Great Folk Music Scare of the 60s. We sang "This Train" so often and sometimes so not well that we sent the song into permanent exile.

I attended a product strategy presentation yesterday. The senior program manager was using a set of marketing slides. One of the slides showed three people in a pyramid (teamwork). The PM said, of the people on the bottom of the pyramid,"These two are basically women."

Indeed.com is a job search site. You can see trends regarding various jobs, based on keywords that you provide. This chart, for example, plots the jobs that match the keywords "village idiot" and "Massachusetts". Although trending slightly downward, prospects are mostly steady.

Every once in a while, I'm asked about my hobbies. I usually mumbles sometting about music and maybe computers and related technology. These hobbies can get a bit expensive, but they're mostly harmless and don't creep people out, not like this mole trap collector.