I’m off from work this week (in part because I reached a ridiculous number of vacation hours accrued, in part because my parents are in town this week, and in part because I needed to get some personal-life stuff done) - boy a lot has changed in a week!

Bubba, a friend who used to have the office across the hall from mine, is a guest blogger on Scoble’s blog! And this is an entry that he blogged about today:

Scobleizer - Microsoft Geek Blogger ? Blogging and Careers

Some folks are talking about the Boston Globe article on blogging being essential to a good career.

Pretty interesting read! Here’s a snippet:

Blogs ‘essential’ to a good career - The Boston Globe

Employers regularly Google prospective employees to learn more about them. Blogging gives you a way to control what employers see, because Google’s system works in such a way that blogs that are heavily networked with others come up high in Google searches.

And coming up high is good: ”People who are more visible and have a reputation and stand for something do better than people who are invisible,” says Catherine Kaputa, branding consultant and author of ”Blogging for Business Success.”

But pick your topics carefully and have a purpose. ”The most interesting blogs are focused and have a certain attitude,” says van Allen. ”You need to have a guiding philosophy that you stick to. You cannot one minute pontificate on large issues of the world and the next minute be like, ‘My dog died.’ “

Yeah… that’s something I’ve got to work on, on this blog. What would you like to see me blog about?

I’m in the process of updating the links section (lower right on the main page) to have a blogroll. If I read your blog and I’ve left you out, please let me know!

And if you see your name on there, be sure to link to me

Scobe posted his OPML. I’m in it! Woot!

My apologies if weird stuff is happening… I’m upgrading to MT 3.2

Update: It’s over!

Blogroll

The Bay Area Is Talking Blogroll, page 1 of 2 (Page 2)

Oh nifty! This blog is listed in on KRON 4’s Bay Area Is Talking.

I’m looking for a Text Editor for Windows that can come close to BBEdit.

One feature I would like is the ability to use FTP from the text editor - that is, I can open and save files using FTP. Preferably SFTP!

I found one that could sort of do that recently (FTP, not SFTP), but the app constrains all its windows to the master window. (Like PowerPoint, unlike Word.) Argh! I hate when apps do that. That’s so Windows 3.1!

Do you have any favorite text editors to recommend?

I have been with Google’s AdSense for a year now, and I must say that I am quite impressed with its ability to provide a revenue stream for my content. It’s been an fairly painless process, but there’s one major downside.

–I’m making money for Google.–

I’m not usually a oh-my-god-everything-Microsoft-does-is-better nor am I a why-would-you-ever-think-of-using-anything-other-than-Microsoft person (one of the reasons I love being in Silicon Valley), but still - as a shareholder of Microsoft, I want to see it succeed!

Unfortunately, as of right now Microsoft does not have an AdSense product. And thus, Microsoft and I can’t make money together from my content. And vendors around the world have only Google and Yahoo (overture) to advertise with.

I hope this changes… soon!

But for now, Google’s done me well, and I do think that the ads provide value add to some of the entries.

(BTW, note that I said a ‘revenue stream’ - not profit stream! This is not quite a profitable operation given the time I spend on it, and how much my time is worth!)