Poor Carly Fiorina. I feel sorry for her. Look at what SFGATE.com is saying about her; Economists back tech industry's overseas hiring Workers deny U.S. lacks qualified staff.

I think I mentioned this awhile ago, but at my last job in San Francisco, I drafted a plan at the request of my boss to move my company's IT programming staff and work to Singapore. Singapore gives companies willing to train and move programming jobs to their country, huge tax credits and all kinds of breaks and incentives.

Besides cutting IT staffing costs in half, my company would have saved more money with the Singapore government tax credits and breaks. Compaq has their operations there.

The presentation I put together was for the Singapore EDB (economic development board), which has an office in Redwood City. My boss gave the presentation to the Singapore EDB in Singapore in the fall of 1999, and the SEDB loved it.

The economic incentive to move our IT operations to Singapore were huge, and I had a Carly Fiorina type rationale going through my head when I was drafting the presentation. It was all about the money though, and I knew it. But I so relate to Carly Fiorina right now.

Red Herring was good.

The price fixed three course menu was:

1. Ceasar salad
2. Seared Pepper Tuna (raw inside) - smoked bacon, arugula, white beans + salsa verde or Jonah Blue Crab Risotto - grilled asparagus + marscapone cheese. Waiter told us there wasn't much crab in the risotto, so we got the tuna. White beans were a little underdone, but otherwise it was good. Loved that smoked bacon.
3. For dessert, mascarpone brulee with strawberries covered in a brown sauce which was either a burnt sugar sauce or balsalmic vinegar.

For wine we ordered a bottle of Cakebread 2002 sauvignon blanc. A good lite white wine, if you need one. And for cocktails, sauza margaritas on the rocks with salt, which was the drink of the day. Wished the drink was made with fresh squeezed lime juice, but very few places do that.

This is fun. I'm going to the Red Herring Restaurant for dinner tonight as part of Dine About Down San Francisco.

Before Red Herring that space was occupied by a restaurant called Roti, which had good food but went out of business or as the website says, evolved into Red Herring. Roti used to make the best onion rings in San Francisco, only they called them "onion strings".

These are so cute! I found this posted on a bulletin board I belong to.

A Bible Teacher asked her class to write notes "to God".
Here are some they handed in:
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Dear God:
I didn't think orange went with purple until I saw the sunset You made on Tuesday. That was cool.
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Dear God:
Instead of letting people die and having to make new ones, why don't You keep the ones You already have?
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Dear God:
Maybe Cain and Abel would not have killed each other if they had their own rooms. That's what my Mom did for me and my brother.
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Dear God:
If You watch me in church on Sunday, I'll show You my new shoes.
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Dear God:
I bet it is very hard to love everyone in the whole world. There are only 4 people in our family and I'm having a hard time loving all of them.
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Dear God:
In school they told us what You do. Who does it when You are on vacation?
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Dear God:
Are You really invisible or is it just a trick?
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Dear God:
Is it true my father won't get into heaven if he uses his bowling words in the house?
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Dear God:
Did You mean for the giraffe to look like that or was it an accident?
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Dear God:
Who draws the lines around the countries?
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Dear God:
I went to this wedding and they kissed right in the church. Is that OK?
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Dear God:
Did You really mean "do unto others as they do unto you"? Because if You did, then I'm going to get my brother good.
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Dear God:
Thank You for the baby brother, but I think you got confused because what I prayed for was a puppy.
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Dear God:
Please send me a pony. I never asked for anything before. You can look it up.
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Dear God:
I want to be just like my Daddy when I get big, but not with so much hair all over.
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Dear God:
You don't have to worry about me; I always look both ways.
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Dear God:
I think about You sometimes, even when I'm not praying.
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Dear God:
Of all the people who worked for You, I like Noah and David the best.
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Dear God:
My brother told me about being born but it doesn't sound right. They're just kidding, aren't they?
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Dear God:
I would like to live 900 years just like the guy in the Bible.
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Dear God:
We read Thomas Edison made light. But in Sunday school they said You did it. So, I bet he stole Your idea.