Category: Books
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Regarding Comments
As some of you have surely noted, I have implemented a new policy regarding comments. Andy, Chris, if your comment is merely to aggravate, it will be deleted. If you have a genuine comment, feel free to post it. Semantic games and posts intended entirely to “poke” are a waste of time, bandwidth, and they discourage others from posting. Example: I make a post…
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Good Writing re: IT Hiring
Specifically, people in the development environment, but some of the rules this guy lays out are applicable to other fields. I wish Anystream’s HR department would have understood this; I’d still be happily employed there had they not taken the “Fill the seat” mentality on so many hires. The High Cost of Low QualityA followup The author writes well and is just so on…
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Balls
I really wish I could use an exclamation point. Anyway, took the Civic in for an inspection to a “special” shop that passed my coworkers kit car, which had a handful of violations. I knew what the Civic lacked: stock seatbelt, horn, and airbag, but I figured they were so minor compared to his that I wouldn’t have an issue. Then again, I realized…
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Good Read: Best and Worst Draft Picks
Brought back some memories.
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Book: Into the Wild
This was my first attempt at listening to an audio book on the way to work, and I must say it was a good experience! I currently have two more checked out at the library :smiley: “Read” a book all while completely spacing out on your commute? Genius! I manage to get through about 1/2 a CD each way so I was done this…
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More spammers
I really don’t understand why they feel the need to attack my site as it has maybe 5 regular readers and none of which are going to be visitng levitra, cialis, or gambling sites (at least I hope not). So thanks to some escape characters that I suppose my software doesn’t handle correctly, they’ve hosed some of the more recent comments again. I luckily…