No Panacea

I was searching on Google for “real estate jobs” and discovered that Target is proactively seeking unemployed real estate professionals.

Real estate and retail definitely have something in common: sales. If Target can recruit some of the best real estate professionals at heavily reduced labor costs, that’s a big win for them. That is until the real estate market picks up again. However, the property market is not likely to have an upward trend for the next several years. Interesting how companies are changing the recruiting strategies to take advantage of the labor shift.

I’ve made some significant changes to ShortcutGuide.com, incorporating YUI AJAX, tabular browsing, ability to add shortcuts from every application page, a quicker way to enter shortcuts, real time updates (instead of a 24 hour wait period), higher performance hosting plan, etc. The site has now over 3700 keyboard shortcuts for 100 applications, real-time stats are available online. More frequent developments are also on the blog. Let me know your thoughts and any features you would like added.

The site was down for several hours today as I worked to switch hosting platforms, modify DNS entries, archive/restore the WordPress database, and copy over the apps. Everything looks to be working now and the the site should perform better as I’m no longer using shared hosting, but moved over to a virtual private server.