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This is a pretty rockin’ statement from a CEO. We should all aspire to write a memo like this in our careers.

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From one of the newest additions to my RSS reader. Whatever happened to the simple yet elegant “Shoshana”?

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Movie of the year (considering that I probably only saw one movie last year). Beyonce has done an amazing job this time.

I got to see Jennifer Hudson in October on a cruise and she told the audience that she has nothing but support for the gay community and will always support the gay community, without missing a beat. It was an impressive display of leadership in society, for someone just starting out.

I actually both read and listened to this one on CD, courtesy of my local library. I am not a big books on CD person, and this one on CD annoyed me a little because the narrator was being on the dramatic side. I mean, this is Provincetown, which is quietly beautiful. It’s not World War II. Just my 2 cents.

In any event, the book itself is great. If you’ve ever been there, you’ll enjoy the descriptions of all the places you’ve been and the history behind them. By the end, I realized that Provincetown will be a part of so many of our lives, at so many parts of our lives.

Here’s my favorite quote:

Among the strollers and shoppers on a summer afternoon, it is not unusual to see, within a fifty-foot radius, all of the following: a crowd of elderly tourists who have come for the day on a tour bus on have disembarked from a cruise ship anchored in the harbor; a pack of muscle boys on their way to the gym; a vacationing mother and father shepherding their exhausted and fussy children through the shops; a pair of lesbians with a dachshund in a rainbow collar; two gay dads in chinos and Izod shirts pushing their adopted daughter in a stroller; a dreadlocked and ostentatiously tattooed young woman who works at the head shop; a man dressed, very convincingly, as Celine Dion….

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I like this graphical depiction of what’s going on in the software industry, excluding the judgments about whether Microsoft is an empire or not. It kind of gives a sense of what’s happening “out there.”

I checked out the Redfin Seattle web site as a new approach to selling and buying a home.

I was last in the real estate market doing a transaction a while ago. It was just….okay. That plus the book Freakonomics has soured me on the current model of “assisted” real estate transactions. There’s gotta be a better way to get fair value for your home besides including “corian countertops” in the ad (read the book to learn more).

One thing I really like is the Redfin Blog, where there’s a Web 2.0/social network spin on houses. At some level, the housing market is fun, and homes are great things with stories behind them. We like stories. I like the stories plus the helpful stats with every blog entry. In a real estate market that’s booming as much as Seattle is, this approach is especially interesting. It’s worth an addition to the RSS Reader of your choice.

Not that I am looking to sell my home, but I would be tempted to give this model a try if I was going to.

Pretty. Now melt.

This is so interesting to me. Not really. Well a little.

I get how Cisco wants to protect its intellectual property. I don’t get how they want to parlay it into a piece of the action. At the end of the day, only Apple gets to be Apple, and from the perspective of public opinion, which is what a lawsuit inspires, I don’t know if this was the right move on Cisco’s part.

MacDailyNews | Cisco General Counsel explains ‘iPhone’ lawsuit; Cicso wanted interoperability with Apple iPhone

Rosie, don’t turn on Barbara. Enjoy all those great ratings. Rise above. It’s not easy to have Donald after you. You need each other.

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