Re: [cobalt-users] Enough is enough...

["Carrie Bartkowiak" <ravencarrie@xxxxxxxx>]

> > Please, unless you have spent your own money on buying and
> > building a hosting network of your very own with your own money
> > and have the risk of an owner... DO NOT ACT AS IF YOU ARE.

I don't know of anyone on this list who is using someone else's money - if
you are, I'd sure like to know how you got your hands on it! <grin>

> > Let's ope that majority of people out here aren't as perfect as
> > you claim to be.

Actually I've never seen Rodolfo claim anything other than what worked for
him, what he's learned from hands-on experience and this list and a bevy of
administration books - all of which he's given credit to, respectively.
The answers he gives are right-on and submitted humbly. I love to read
Rodolfo's posts for a number of reasons; always because I learn something
but mainly because there *isn't* that air of pompousity that smothers many
posts.

> > So you are also a top level business consultant in addition
> > to the "Perfect Administrator". WOW!

Is there something wrong with being successful?
This is the kind of jealousy that I'd expect to hear during a political
debate - like "being rich is unfair".
If Rodolfo became a top level business consultant it's not because he was
born into the job, it's because he worked his ass off to get there. And
therefore, he deserves every penny he earns.
More power to him, and to people like him.

(This one from Rodolfo:)
> Sarcasm aside, Pat, bitch all you want. I make about $80,000 a year on
> business and IT strategy consulting alone, and the stock I own in the
> businesses I have helped to grow is worth over $600,000 at the price of
> last transaction. This has contributed nicely to my $1.3M net worth at
> the ripe old age of 29, no stock market bullshit included.

Wow Rodolfo, I had this image of you being more like 35 or so. No insult
intended, of course!

(Back to Pat:)
> > Provide this list with resources and knowledge rather than
> > pompous rhetoric.

That's all I've ever seen him do. I think perhaps you're mistaking him for
someone else?

> The list archives or Google will allow you to check on the type of
> content I normally write.

Oh lord. How often do we do a search on our own names? I haven't done it in
years - back when I was doing everything as Raven you could get 10 solid
pages of me (the first ten that came up, I might add) when doing a search
for "Raven" at Yahoo.  Hadn't tried it with my actual name - goodness, I've
gotta quit writing stuff under my real name! *L*
Just tried it and I'm sitting here blushing and shaking my head. I was
wondering where some of that stuff got published - now I know!

Rodolfo, keep doing what you're doing. I, for one, am thankful you're on
this list.
And if you ever get the urge to start some type of newsletter where you
share your successful strategies, I'd join in an instant.  ;)

Pat - calm down, please. You're gonna get flaming mad at someone on the list
every week. It ebbs and flows. Someone you bitch at one week will be giving
you the most useful tip you've ever gotten the next week and you'll feel
like a total ass. (I've done it, still doing it.. hehe)
Sometimes the best thing you can do is to just stop reading a thread or dump
an entire day's worth of the list messages. It's just not worth getting
upset over - you'd spend the same amount of time watching a good movie with
your family as you would ranting over a post and pounding out a reply...
which one is a better way to spend your time?  :)

A laid-back, Texan friend of mine told me once:
1. Don't sweat the small stuff
2. It's all small stuff

:)
Carrie