Browsing Year 2003
The Doohickey and the Thingy
This is the third article concerning why and how technically oriented but unemployed individuals should consider offering freelance technical support. The first part is here. There second part is here. … Part of the problem in educating clients is their reluctance to stray beyond the surface of the technology. They do not, for example, necessarily more…
With A Fat Paycheck Comes Fat Responsibility
This is the second article concerning why and how technically oriented but unemployed individuals should consider offering freelance technical support. The first part is here. There is also a Part 3. … A few years ago I left my job as IT Director (rather, my job as the entire IT department) of a 65-person advertising more…
Technical Self-Employment Is A Fat Paycheck Waiting to Be Pocketed
This is the first article concerning why and how technically oriented but unemployed individuals should consider offering freelance technical support. The second part is here. The third part is here. … This article by the New York Times suggests that people are becoming technically adept by necessity, and that, as happened with radios and automobiles, more…
“City Lights Alter Rhythm of Life on Long Island Sound” by Kirk Johnson from
;The heavy-footed arrogance that humans are often accused of in dealing with the natural world doesn’t work. You are just a guy with a ridiculously fake thing at the end of a string, trying a trick. You have surrendered most of the advantages of big-brained opposable-thumbed bipedalism.
Technical Employment For All!
This article by the New York Times suggests that people are becoming technically adept by necessity, and that, as happened with radios and automobiles, eventually all technology will take care of itself and be as mindless to operate as toasters are today. I see that day as decades off. Computers are still complex to make, more…
Spam Tally For A Client
I sent this out to the 15-person office of one of my tech clients on Saturday. That’s a lot of damned spam for 15 people. … Since installing the spam filter on March 28 it has blocked at least 14,444 pieces of spam. The spam filter conservatively assigns points or fractions of points for hundreds more…
Pica, also known as chthonophagia, is a cravin
Pica, also known as chthonophagia, is a craving to eat earth or clay.
“A gallery revamp with the subtlety of a hand grenade” by Richard Dorment from the
;Architects hate art. If you let them loose near a museum or gallery, you have to watch their every move, because they will do their best to leave their own galumphing paw prints all over the place, and in the process stamp on the works of art.
Yerida is a somewhat derog
Yerida is a somewhat derogatory Hebrew term for emigration from Israel, approximately the opposite of making aliyah, or immigrating to Israel.
What is the connection?
What is the connection? 1. Cycling’s unwritten code of chivalry dictates that riders not take advantage of the leader when he has crashed. 2. Fooled by a visual illusion, people drink more from short, wide glasses than thinner, taller ones, but they think they are drinking less.
