2nd Richest Man Gives Away His Fortune

The world’s second richest man, Warren Buffett – who’s now worth $44 billion – will start giving away 85% of his wealth in July – most of it to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation!

Warren Buffett gives away his fortune

“Buffett has pledged to gradually give 85% of his Berkshire stock to five foundations. A dominant five-sixths of the shares will go to the world’s largest philanthropic organization, the $30 billion Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, whose principals are close friends of Buffett’s (a connection that began in 1991, when a mutual friend introduced Buffett and Bill Gates). The Gateses credit Buffett, says Bill, with having ‘inspired’ their thinking about giving money back to society. Their foundation’s activities, internationally famous, are focused on world health — fighting such diseases as malaria, HIV/AIDS, and tuberculosis — and on improving U.S. libraries and high schools.”

Wow. Gotta give Buffett credit! The great thing about being rich, and having made it yourself… you know how you did it, and you can do it again if need be! Kudos to Mr. Buffett! I trust his contributions will be well used!

10 Ways to Tweak Your Tech Résumé

eWeek Magazine has a new article that helps you tweak your résumé. “A study released May 31 by Spherion Pacific Enterprises, a recruiting and staffing firm based in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., found that nearly half of the U.S. IT work force plans to change jobs in the next year. While this means great things for techies—the same study found that IT workers beat the overall work force in job-seeking confidence—it also means that thousands now have résumés to polish and tighten.”

10 Ways to Tweak Your Tech Résumé

Check out the suggestions in the above link… some are pretty useful!

AOL is Evil… and Hard to Cancel as Well!

You know I have pointed out in the past that AOL is the Internet on training wheels, even “Weird Al” Yankovik’s song “It’s All About the Pentiums” has a line that says, “And postin’ ‘Me too!’ like some brain-dead AOL-er.” So it has been previously established that AOL is lame. However, it is also hard to leave the ranks of the mind numbed as well when you do get a clue, note this exchange caught on tape:

Leaving AOL… Breaking Up is Hard to Do!

I must admit, way back when (and I mean WAY back when) I cancelled my own dial-up (no, NOT AOL, Earthlink), they gave me a hard time as well, but not THIS bad!