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State of Work
No I wasn't affected by the layoffs. My GM's org has no headcount reduction planed in the next year. He's allowed to backfill attrition and we still are having our annual uber morale event. Raises are gone, but bonuses and stock is currently still happening at annual review time in Sept ( Read more... ) -
Little things I've noticed
First off, the standard calc program in win7 is made of win. It would have been epic win if it did RPN. Time to enter a feature request as soon as I find their bug database ( Read more... ) -
You saw it here first
I've decided to coin a phrase, help me use it in professional and personal arenas :)
Security by Ferrets - Protecting data by locating it on the other side of schema habit trails through undisclosed compartments.
Examples: Any backup system, Sharepoint.
If you have other examples, comment! -
Woo!
So Lenovo has gone up in my view of things. My laptop that I ordered 2 days ago has shipped (their SLA is 9 days from order to shipment on custom orders). I will find out tomorrow when it will be here, but I should have it by this time next week at the latest (since I live in an easily reachable location in the greater Seattle area *smirk*). ( Read more... ) -
PSA
Happy Personal Solar Circumnavigation Day to artistic_chaos!
May it be filled with shiny blue things and cookies ^_^ -
Year 2009
So I had eschewed resolutions in favor of a credo to guide my goals and personal direction a few years ago. After 3 years of no changes to it, I will now try to set some goals within my tenets:
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Steam sale
gacked from 6ferrets
Steam is having a holiday sale. Fat savings on many things, slight savings on others (e.g. GTA4 is $5 off, Fallout 3 is $10 off at $40, Bioshock is $5 (not off, $5)). Savings on the packages are pretty deep though (e.g. id Superpack is $35, THQ pack is $75 instead of $100 (with $174 worth of games in it), all of Popcap Games is $75 ( Read more... ) -
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Uh, wow. Here is an animated short from the director Shane Aker. Here is the trailer to the full movie produced by Tim Burton and voiced by a significant cast (Jennifer Connelly, Elijah Wood, Christopher Plummer, Martin Landau, Crispin Glover, John C Reilly).
Not due out until 9 Sept of next year, which is very sad, but damn...
