I’ve had my fair share of conversations with HR people who are somehow convinced that I’d be more qualified for their IT job if I had finished my Accounting degree instead of quitting college 15 years ago, regardless of the fact that I’ve been doing exactly what they are looking for someone to do for…
Yesterday I spent the entire day in my office, where it was a toasty 84 degrees. Today, thus far it’s gotten up to “only” 82, but it’s early and the building has a tendency to warm up a few degrees as the day progresses. Obviously, there’s a problem with the heat in this part of…
I moved most of the photos into the new gallery. (Some of the photos are simply gone, I decided it was time to retire them..) I wrote a new article, Is Email Dead? I updated a few things on this page and took out the webcam picture since I haven’t updated it in a long…
Scoble’s got a link and some of his own comments on Orkut. I pretty much agree, I didn’t find myself going over there much after the first few days. There simply wasn’t enough to hold my interest, even in the communities, which is maybe the best part of Orkut. The problem there is that those…
I have a question. If you’re a tech recruiter, or know a tech recruiter can you help me out? I want to know, when you’re a tech recruiter, why do you contact people without even looking at their resume first, and why do you lie about the job you’re calling about? Seriously, last week I…
Yes, yet another morning filled with answering virus questions, hooking things up, looking up details, tracking down failures, etc. (aka yet another day in IT!) But I just wanted to take a moment and share DNS Report, especially the mail test. It comes in handy when you don’t get direct access to your ISP’s mail…