Category: rantings
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Things to note when taxiing a blind dude, in list format.
I do a fair bit of cabbing from here to there, as does any person who doesn’t quite know how to shuffle the bus system from A to Z. Since I’m hardly the first to do it, and hardly the first blind fool at that, I thought it might be … Read the rest
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Probable cause is so 2000, y’know?
Every couple months, something new and interesting crops up that makes me quite glad I’m not actually a US citizen. A recent example, following the federal trend, comes out of California–who’s governor has vetoed the hell out of a bill that would have required law enforcement to actually, you know, … Read the rest
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Documentation is key. so where the hell is yours?
I’ve been known to get my hands dirty with this or that random project. Occasionally, resulting in the consumption of something a bit stronger than the coke I often keep nearby. Sometimes, I do it pretty much by the seat of my pants–this looks like it goes over here, so … Read the rest
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The dog phobia days of apartment living.
I’m a huge dog person. Always have been. I grew up with and around them, raised and trained one of my own from 6 weeks, and now am raising a second with May–who also happens to be a huge dog person. So this apartment building was, in that respect, a … Read the rest
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In which Klout gets to decide how valuable my skills are. Awesome. Now what the hell is Kloute?
this is an older post, but if it’s a trend, it’s a goofy one. Klout, which I so have never used–and will probably never use, is being used as a prerequisit for positions being filled by at least one company. While the ads the article references are filled, the … Read the rest
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I do believe college just quit me.
Or if nothing else, their disability department did. I’ve been working at getting myself situated so the geekness that is me can exist on paper with a minimal amount of fuss. Which, in turn, would hopefully result in somebody not paid by the government signing my more generous than present … Read the rest
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If you use Network Solutions to host your domain names, here’s a very good reason to stop.
Network Solutions hasn’t been in my top 20 places to send people for geek things for a few years–largely because every so often, they break something so significantly that it tries very hard to take out good portions of the internet. But now, the company’s got themselves in my top … Read the rest
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California takes a shot at legislating common sense, probably breaks it instead.
Employer-employee relations 101’s first rule of engagement, you’d think, should probably be saying something along the lines of asking for the passwords of potential–or current–employees’ various social networking accounts blows stupid clear out of the water. You’d think. But you’d be wrong, as evidenced by, well, just run a google … Read the rest
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OC Transpo would like to charge you too much for your on-the-way coffee.
On the face of it, city councillor Diane Deans’s idea to drop a few coffee shops at major transit stops in Ottawa is a good one. I have no idea how many times I’m trying to get to x place, that passes right through y transit station, and my only … Read the rest
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Wanted: employer. Must have: good grasp of English language.
Let’s assume you’re in the market for a job. Let’s also assume you have the qualifications to fill pretty much any position you could lay your hands on. Now let’s also assume an ad like this one rolled across your desk. .Net Devleopers at Zylog Systems Canada (Ottawa, ON) Given … Read the rest
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