Last week I wrote a series of postings for employers, and this week I'll touch base on things candidates should know. Candidates: you are a product, and your web site is your brochure. Managers: read the brochure just as you would a new product. These days, we buy everything online. We read the product's web…
When hiring a new IT worker, take a few minutes to give them a tour of the group's work environment. You don't have to go so far as to point out, "Here's the cube where you'd be sitting," but try to give them a general idea of what the typical work area looks like. At…
Ebay just announced they're buying Skype for $2.6 billion dollars. Here's the press release.
For those of you who don't know what Skype is...exactly. That's the point.
The first thing administrators want to monitor is their resources: file servers, database servers, app servers, etc. That's understandable, since they're system administrators. In order to be really successful with monitoring, though, we need to think like customer administrators - for both our internal and external customers. Forget the hardware, and think about the people. How do our customers interact with our systems?
Here's a photo of the decorations. The place looks like a New Year's celebration. You can't help but smile in this office.
I came into the office last night to check up on my fantasy football scores (thank you, Priest Holmes, you record-setting devil you) and found that my office had been TP'ed for my upcoming birthday. They did a masterful job, down to hanging TP from the ceiling as streamers. I couldn't stop laughing for several minutes.
When I went downstairs this morning to make my second pot of coffee, I opened the kitchen blinds and saw a little creature in distress. This fella got his legs caught in the boards of my back fence overnight, probably while walking along the top, and was stuck. He was still alive, thank goodness, and…
I had a really crummy day yesterday. Things just weren't going my way, and I had all kinds of stupid small programming problems at work. Just one unrelated thing after another. Sometime in the afternoon, I stumbled downstairs for yet another pot of coffee and some ibuprofen, but I wasn't really paying attention. I was…
A few days ago, the RIAA announced that they were suing another 477 people who shared MP3's. I had a fake Yahoo press release rigged up so that people could put in a friend's name, and it would generate an official-looking link that they could send to their unwitting friend. The friend would read the…
JinWicked drew me a set of icons to use in online forums, and I'm really tickled with the way they turned out. The one shown here is my favorite, because it captures the way my eyes close when I smile. I gotta rescan them at a higher quality and chop 'em up in Photoshop this week. Having these makes me want to start leaving more comments on web forums so that I can show off my icons. Muhahaha.
I bought my first pantyhose yesterday. I've been trying to figure out why nobody sells the right filter refills for my Fluval 404 aquarium filter, which has been doing a bang-up job of removing turtle poop. Yesterday, a nice Petco staffer told me why: everybody buys women's pantyhose, cuts it up into bags, and uses…
