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The One Page Resume

Friday, February 24th, 2012

I’ve been unemployed for too long. There are obviously reasons for this, but if I had all the answers, I wouldn’t be unemployed now would I? I try to shore up my weaknesses and leverage my strengths. I spend a lot of time online reading ‘expert’ advice on what to do and what not to [...]

Stop me if you’ve heard this before, but Google changed their search algorithm

Thursday, January 12th, 2012

Apparently yesterday while I was at a job interview or on the ferry or otherwise not online, Google made a major change to their search engine algorithm. They call it Search plus Your World which is a pretty lame name. People have already reduced it to an acronym SPYW or as I like to read [...]

Niche Social Networks

Sunday, December 18th, 2011

Recently Gowalla was bought by Facebook.  I immediately said the user accounts would be merged, users would be forced to transfer to Facebook and Gowalla would be shut down.  Turns out I was partially correct.  Some people on Twitter were happy for the founders of Gowalla as they made some money selling out to Facebook [...]

Microsoft Office Upgrade

Thursday, July 21st, 2011

After yesterday’s furious update of Mac OS X Lion and a whole bunch of apps, I finally got around to trying my new version of Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel this morning.  Microsoft Word templates gave me some grief, Mac OS X Lion doesn’t even want me to see my Library folder now, I had [...]

Mac OS X Lion costs more than you think

Wednesday, July 20th, 2011

I know Lion was coming.  I follow people on Twitter.  They tweeted about starting to download.  I decided I would upgrade and then see whether my mom and sister should upgrade.  I’ve been using OS X since the public beta.  I have a lot of experience using computers, upgrading computers, developing software, etc. etc.  The [...]

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