Greetings Citizens of the Realm!

The Paladin is proud to announce a new branch of the website having gone online tonight: Alternative Software

This new portion of the site will detail alternative pieces of software that have proven themselves worthy of mention.

Please go have a look. Hopefully something there will jog your mind and improve your user experience.

Greetings Citizens of the Realm!

Today’s story is a few days old (the Paladin is just catching up on things) and comes to us courtesy of ABC News. The reason the Paladin brings this up is because the Paladin has worked for over 2 decades in the computer industry and his was the the industry most recently effected by the off-shoring craze.

Yes, the Paladin knows that manufacturing was one of the first industries to really take a hit in this manner, and his heart goes out to all of those who lost their jobs. The Paladin feels that pushing manufacturing overseas, along with other industries, is bad for America.

Of course, when the accountants, managers, and CEO’s of the Western Hemisphere found out that through the Internet they could hire foreign programmers and system developers for just pennies on the dollar, they immediately began to offshore every programming task that they could.

But they did not stop there!

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