Robert Reich has two articles that contain some hope for those of us who fear the spectre of outsourcing. The first, "Nice Work If You Can Get It," suggests that most of the recent job losses are due to the recession and not to jobs moving abroad (I can believe that) and that "symbolic analysts" will long continue to thrive. The second, "High-Tech Jobs Are Going Abroad! But That's Okay," suggests that when high-tech jobs do move abroad, they only help the U.S. in the long run by increasing the market for innovation and innovators.
11:25:09 PM      

I've blogged about Rhapsody before. If you're connected to the Internet most of the time, as I am, then a program like Rhapsody is a great deal, because it lets you listen to as much music as you want for a low monthly cost. Sure, it costs more to buy tracks and save them to your computer, but most of the time, I don't bother with that. There's too much music in the world to buy all of it.

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9:47:51 PM      

Today I joined the Amazon.com Associates Program, which threatens to make me rich. See, if I link to products on Amazon.com and convince my flock of readers to click on those links and buy the products, then I get a few cents now and then. Actually, the Associates Program is far more than that, but that's all I managed to glean in the few minutes before I hurriedly updated all the Amazon.com links in my existing blog entries.
9:26:00 PM