According to Wired, the Web is dead. This has the Internets all abuzz. Someone noted that Wired was trolling the entire Internet, meaning it’s saying something sensational simply to get a reaction. As with many thing, there’s probably truth in both camps. Wired wants traffic (both to their magazine and Read more…
So, it’s a bit early to call this year complete, but for my purposes, the year I’m going to review is from mid-November to mid-November (more or less). For these purposes, we’ll call that 2009. The year that was 2009 got an early start in mid-November of 2008. The startup Read more…
I was driving through a small town in Washington today when I spotted a billboard with a quote on it. I looked at it for all of the three seconds it took to drive by it, but the quote on it caused it to stick in my head. It said Read more…
Let’s talk about interviews. Or, for the purpose of this story, two interviews and what we can learn from them. Interview 1: Red Flags and You The first interview was for a job somewhat outside my area of expertise, but I saw it as a subset of what I do Read more…
I won’t go in to detail here because of the public nature of the Internet, but after two and a half months of employment, I find myself in search of a new job. I learned first hand many things that contribute to a successful organization and what doesn’t, so it’s Read more…
It’s good to learn new things. It keeps us fresh, keeps us from getting complacent. One thing that is true of moving not only to a new job, but a new job in an entirely new domain, is that there will be plenty of new things to learn. Today’s observation Read more…
As I get older I’m being forced to acknowledge that my physical body is not accepting my mental premise that I’m pretty much the same as I was when I was 18 years old. I’m forced to rationalize more things to myself. I tell myself I’m wiser though strangely slower Read more…
Well, as much fun as it has been to be part of this growing new movement we call rampant unemployment during the largest economic recession/depression since the early 20th century, it’s time to do something else. I’ll be starting work as a Senior Project Manager at an information management company Read more…
I did some simple hacking of the php for the blog. For the non-techies, that’s the language that’s used for the dynamic creation of some of the content. In this case, all I did was add some basic checking for the current month to roll the header image at the Read more…
Whether “Apocalypse” is the right word or not is certainly up for discussion. Certainly David Sirota at Salon thinks so in his article here. What I can say is that Oregon is sliding in to whatever this is (recession, depression, economic event, End Times) at a rate in excess of Read more…