Stumbled onto this job-search site yesterday and discovered that its form for building a skills-list is a real confidence booster! It has you select an industry, then list skills you've applied in that industry, free-form. After I'd input the second obvious category, I realized, hey, I've worked in many of these industries! ( Read more... )

It's nice to see the thought that must have gone into this wish list by one of the founders of the Samba project team. I sorta wish he'd stuffed the geekier stuff toward the end, but if you skip the big list of "I wish open source projects would..." stuff, there's more political insight further on. Leave a comment

As I recover from the (hopefully) last of my flu, some puzzling ideas come to mind. Perhaps I didn't get the really bad flu virus that's been in the news. If that's what it is, though, I seem to have chanced into a reasonable sequence of treatment. It began with a sore throat, which I attacked with echanacia drops. I took huge doses of Vitamin ( Read more... )

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While traveling, I dropped my habit of visiting these click-to-help sites. Part of it was not having the links in front of me, so here are the ones I was visiting regularly:

• The Hunger Site
  
• The Breast Cancer Site
  
• The Child Health Site
  
• The Rain Forest Site
  
• The Animal Rescue Site

Of course, visiting any one of those will give you the links to the ( Read more... )

Yow, what a week! I've been cooking up a storm.

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I'm expanding my use of eck_music. If you see it on your "friend of" list, it's because I'm keeping track of who I share musical tastes with. If I've learned of good music from you or introduced you to some, you may get added. If you want to be added, say the word! Well, and vice versa ( Read more... )

What a fun thingy!

Miche, it says you're in Indonesia, right near Jakarta!

So I tried the Chewy Gingerbread Cookies recipe posted by ( Read more... )

Not sure how many technophiles read this, but in case you're interested: The migration of my internet server to a collocation facility is coming up off the back burner, driven by a confluence of incentive and means. Now ( I have to decide... )