Hiring people is an interesting process. You meet lots of people, many smart, some strange. Today something happened on a phone interview that has never happened before. I had scheduled a phone interview with a candidate for this afternoon. I called him at the time we agreed on and I went into most of my …
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The FoxTrot comic strip has always been full of geeky humor. Last Sunday’s was great. I would have missed it if Anne hadn’t clipped it for me. This kinda reminds me of this recurring dream I have where I’m in high school again because there was an error in the courses I took and I …
Well, we’re back from our New Hampshire via Seattle vacation or “Northeast by Northwest”. It was a nostalgic trip to visit places where we once were before and we succeeded in seeing a lot of familiar haunts. The first stop was Seattle, for our friends Todd and Chris’s wedding. It was great to be in …
Amazon is offering a 1.57% discount for users of its new A9 search engine. They’re not promoting it, but when I went to amazon today, they linked me over to this page explaning the nerdy percentage. Of course, I’m only suggesting that you use A9 enough to get the discount since there are better ones …
I wondered how long it would take to get my first spam after registering winnepocket.com. The answer: two days. From: [email protected] Subject: winnepocket.com Date: September 17, 2004 10:27:05 PM PDT To: [email protected] Hi, I was doing some domain searches and I saw you JUST registered winnepocket.com? I thought I would take a chance to ask …
“What am I going to do with it? Are you kidding? I’m going to sell it!” – Steven Williams, a 25-year-old man from Pacifica, California who ended up with Barry Bonds’ 700th home-run ball, estimated to be worth $250,000
On a whim, I registered a domain name. I’m now the proud owner of winnepocket.com. Winnepocket is the name of the lake in New Hampshire where my parents have our summer cottage aka “The Camp”. I have many fond memories there. Having just returned from vacation there, it was on my mind and I started …
its really annoying when people dont even try to format their email in any sensible way… the shift key is not that hard to find folks… use it to make it easier for people the visually parse your message… and learn how to use more punctuation than just elipses… senstences end with a one period …
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There’s a new virus going around – and it’s producing babies. That’s about the only explanation I have for why just about everyone I know either just had a kid, is pregnant, or wants to be pregnant. I know I’m “at that age” where people tend to start popping out future farm hands, but it’s …
MIME headers (like Subject:, From:, etc.) are great for email and web requests, but do we really need them on receipts?? This is what I got when I rented a movie at the Yahoo Quick-E-Mart today.