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Clueless Recruiters, Issue #4
• March 20, 2012 • Clueless Recruiters • No comments
Do I look like a cow? It’s the hair, isn’t it? I need a haircut. — all in this week’s issue of Clueless Recruiters. (Cue theme music!) There are few things that technical people are more annoyed by than technical recruiters. A very large segment of the technical recruiting industry has made a bad name [...]
SOPA/PIPA
• January 18, 2012 • Political • No comments
This is a letter that I wrote to my representatives this morning, Rep. Jay Inslee, Sen. Maria Cantwell and Sen. Patty Murray. Internet Issues: SOPA/PIPA I am a Washington State voter, and I want to urge you to denounce, reject and vote against the SOPA & PIPA bills currently working their way through Congress. Information: [...]
Clueless Recruiters, Issue #3
• January 12, 2012 • Clueless Recruiters • No comments
How to prove that you are quite possibly the worst scum of the universe — all in this week’s issue of Clueless Recruiters. (Cue theme music!) There are few things that technical people are more annoyed by than technical recruiters. A very large segment of the technical recruiting industry has made a bad name for [...]
Life Lesson: You can do anything you put your mind to, even if it’s “I can’t”.
• January 7, 2012 • Life Lessons • No comments
Growing up, I always heard the adage “you can do anything you put your mind to”. I never really understood it because I think I took it too literally. This post is part of a larger series written to my children entitled “Life Lessons”. Read the Introduction to learn more, or view all of the [...]
Introduction to “Life Lessons”
• January 7, 2012 • Life Lessons • No comments
As I’ve watched my children grow, I’ve started collecting a list of little bits of wisdom that I want to pass along to my kids. For a number of years now, I’ve been taking notes. Sometimes these notes are funny, sometimes endearing, and sometimes very serious. But all of these notes are about experiences from [...]
Louis C.K. and a word about torrenting
• December 11, 2011 • Culture, Digital Media • No comments
For those who don’t know, Louis C.K. is a stand-up comedian. I personally find angry humor to be some of the funniest, and Louis C.K. is a balding, red-headed, middle-aged, middle-class, white guy who’s pissed off about everything. I’d heard that he’d recorded a live special and was making it available, DRM-free, for $5. That’s [...]
RIM: Just cut your losses and start afresh
• December 4, 2011 • Technology, Work and Business • No comments
Research In Motion (creator of BlackBerry devices) has been tanking for quite some time. Now, that time is up. Matt Alexander, writing for one37, in his piece entitled “That’s Enough, RIM”: The Playbook is dead. It’s taken a while for you to realize that, and I’m not convinced you’re fully aware, but you should really [...]
Cult of Ignorance
• November 28, 2011 • Notable Quotes • No comments
A very salient point by Isaac Asimov: There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good [...]
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