How To:
Go to http://www.careercruising.com/.
Put in Username: nycareers Password: landmark.
Take their "Career Matchmaker" questions.
Post the results.

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And, no, you don't get to change it. Screw you guys. :-)

I'm not shy about ranting when a company provides miserable service, so it's only fair I mention the ones that go above and beyond. Over the past few weeks my MacBook Pro battery has been giving me troubles, and finally today it just stopped cooperating altogether. I checked closely and found I had fallen victim to the dreaded battery bulge ( Read more... )

Vagary (most commonly seen in the plural, vagaries) is most often used as if it is a concrete instance of abstract vagueness. This is not correct. They come from the same latin root, meaning "to wander," but where "vague" means "of indefinite character," a "vagary" is an unpredictable change in character ( Read more... )

The magical cornucopia of the Work Kitchen has disgorged something called PopChips. Little bit perplexed about one thing on the back of the bag ( Read more... )

Time has posted an excerpt from Al Gore's forthcoming book, The Assault on Reason. Go read. The further the man gets from politics, the more he sounds like he ought to be there.

(Crossposted from elsewhere.)

I just got a phishing email trying to get me to give up my (nonexistent) CareerBuilder account details, leading me to wonder, what the hell do you gain by cracking somebody's CareerBuilder account? Any ideas?

Once again, Americans are too special (in whatever sense of that word you prefer) to see the same news as everybody else. This week's MiniTrue Moment is sponsored by Time Magazine:

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I've been totally slacking out on the blog posting for a few months now. Not to say nothing is going on. In the past three months I have:

1) Lost 30 lbs.

2) Gotten a new car.

3) Taken up snowboarding.

Other more minor things, I'm sure, but those are the parts that are even remotely of general interest.

If you haven't seen this yet, check out MacHeist. Several Mac developers have gotten together and offered a bundle of 10 pieces of software, valued over $300, for only $49, with 25% of the proceeds going to your choice of eight charity organizations. They've been gradually "unlocking" packages as they hit contribution thresholds. They're all ( Read more... )