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I’m sold, use Netbeans 6+ for Ruby on Rails development.
A good book on the subject (get the 2nd edition)

I came across this reading something on Hillary Clinton … here
"Personalize it"

Saul Alinsky’s rules of power tactics, excerpted from his 1971 book "Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals"

1. Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
2. Never go outside the experience of your people.
3. Whenever possible go outside the experience of the enemy.
4. Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules.
5. Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.
6. A good tactic is one that your people enjoy.
7. A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.
8. Keep the pressure on.
9. The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.
10. Maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition.
11. If you push a negative hard and deep enough it will break through into its counterside.
12. The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.
13. Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.

My last day at at&t is/was 11/15. Sometimes you have to take big steps to move forward in life. I’ve decided to take this opportunity to do just that.

I won’t be able to say goodbye to most of the folks I’ve enjoyed working with these last 8+ years – first at BAPCO, BTSI, BTG and finally at&t. We’ve had some opportunities to excel and some fairly easy projects over that time.

As most of you know, I always worked to make it better or fix the process and finally, to endure it.

There are simply too many people to thank in AT&T and the telecom industry as a whole who helped me learn enterprise architecture, Telcordia systems and together we were successful in designing and deploying projects. Special ‘’SHOUT-OUT’’ to RonB, HarryMc, KeithF, almost all the cB Segment teams and a number of folks who have left already. Also I can’t forget the IDS, GPS and TechNet teams – thanks Ward, SteveMc and MarkS! Lunch guys, I’ll miss you too!

Please, throw me an email or connect with me via LinkedIn. It will be appreciated.

Should that email address stop working (spam is really bad), try guessing addresses using my name and/or initials and/or common UNIX accounts. You’ll probably find an aliases that will work.

Again, thanks to you all and feel free to look me up!

My plans for after AT&T Todos]].

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Just a few Political Sites that I’ve come across:

• http://www.prwatch.org/
• http://www.sourcewatch.org/
• http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Congresspedia
• http://www.theadvocates.org/quiz.html
• http://politifact.com/ – has the //True-o-meter//
• http://boortz.com/
• http://www.speakout.com/activism/issues/
• http://www.weeklystandard.com/
• http://politics1.com/