I disabled trackbacks on the entire blog. I'm tired of dealing with the spam. Perhaps if Haloscan puts something together that makes some effort at blocking it I'll think about it again, but for now, it's too much work deleting the dozens of spam trackbacks every single day. While the trackbacks will still appear in my Haloscan account, I don't see any point linking to them from here if most of them are spam. I can control that much, and I am exercising that control.
I started using the blog feature on Yahoo! 360. It's probably over-simplified for some of the tech heads who read this blog, and I certainly wouldn't want it to be my main blog, since so much of it is unconfigurable, but it is easy to use, uploading photos with your post is a breeze, and it makes for an easy way to have some fun with my Gnomad and share that with you all. I've only put up the first few posts, I have a bunch more lined up that I'll be adding over the next few days, and you can subscribe to the RSS feed if you want to keep up with the silliness!
Update: Something I hadn't really thought about before, but apparently, you have to be a member of Yahoo! 360 to see any other pages in Yahoo! 360, so the link probably won't work for most of you. I'm not really happy about that. Hopefully, when it comes out of beta you'll be able to actually share content without it being locked behind a Yahoo! only service. In the meantime, if you want an invite, let me know. Nevermind, apparently I was doing something wrong with the link. Everyone can see the blog. It's been that kind of day... :)
I'm seriously interested in hearing different views on this one. What do you think of a interviewee taking notes during a job interview? What does it say about him/her? Does it make you assume that they are very serious about investigating and remembering all the details of this job, or does it interfere with holding a more natural conversational-type interview? I've heard, or read, both arguments and I'm curious if anyone out there has taken notes during an interview, or interviewed someone who was taking notes and how it worked out.
Also, does your opinion of someone taking notes depend on the job they're interviewing for? Does it impress you if a tech or accounting person takes notes, but not so much for someone in sales, because you want that person to be able to remember details and interact without the need?
What were we thinking? We scheduled a Friends of the Library committee meeting for 7:30AM the Tuesday after Daylight Savings Time starts? It takes me almost a week to get adjusted to the time change usually, getting up an hour earlier than usual to drive across town won't help that process.
Some might say that was the reason I wound up chosen to write a Request for Quote for website development, but I actually did volunteer. I think it'll be an interesting process, and I'll get to deal with people who, aside from being able to design websites (like I already do), also have the capabilities to build secure servers and other back-end stuff that I'm not completely familiar with, so it'll be fun to learn a bit more about this stuff. On the other hand, it's more meetings. :)
Of course, now that I watched that OneNote presentation I talked about yesterday, putting my meeting notes into OneNote and creating flagged action items is a breeze! Of course, I don't use it as designed. I type too slowly, so I take notes in a meeting the old fashoined way, then transfer a cleaned up version of my written notes into OneNote as an outline. It actually works out better for me that way, re-writing forces me to clean them up and organize them. They don't start up that way when I'm just writing.
Chuck Tomasi, in his latest podcast, talked about something that I've totally discovered as well, it's hard to keep up with podcasts that are rather lengthy. Usually my podcast listening is done on my lunch hour, or at home at night. (My commute to work is, literally, 10 minutes or so. Not enough time to make a dent in keeping up!) I don't have too much trouble keeping the attention span for 45 minute to an hour long podcasts that deal with specific hands-on techie stuff, but the longer interview-type ones tend to get skipped over when I'm busy. I just don't have the attention span, or the time, to follow along. Maybe it's just Chuck and me, but it's something to consider.
OneNote is one of the most capable programs I use and like all such versatile applications there are a lot of features and capabilities that I am sure I am not using. If you are a budding OneNote user or just trying to figure out what OneNote might be able to do for you don't miss the excellent OneNote video that Microsoft has on the Microsoft Office web site. Chris Berteleson sits down with a convertible Tablet PC and for over 45 minutes shows virtually every feature of OneNote. Note that the demo is not Tablet specific by any means, Chris demonstrates all the features that are available on any PC and also covers the ink specific functions of OneNote. The video is an excellent source of information about OneNote and I guarantee you will come away with the knowledge of something new about the program.
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