a crank’s progress

angiemckaig.com - brain lint
Even in this recession, where there are more out-of-work tech people than ever, employers and employees both have to remember that there is such a thing as mutual respect. If you want us to learn your business, take a bit of time to learn ours. At the very least, avoid laundry lists [...]

On Lisa Rein’s Radar: Spam Justice
West Bloomfield bulk e-mailer Alan Ralsky, who just may be the world’s biggest sender of Internet spam, is getting a taste of his own medicine.

a parable:
“let’s suppose you and I have been summoned to God’s office, and while we wait for Her to admit us, we hear Her grousing about how the market has beaten up Her holdings pretty badly. She calls for one of her assistants to fetch Her the next two souls to be sent to earth. [...]

K-Log Pilot Recap
I hate to call these “k-logs” since pronunciation seems to make them sound less than useful.
Many were in agreement that the k-log would be a great vehicle for senior execs to share wisdom with others in the company. Oddly enough, those same people were uncertain whether they as individuals would have information [...]

Yesterday, for the first time in 2 years, I received a paycheck. So this means I can start putting life as we knew it back together.

Hire a housekeeper
Resume shipments of Peet’s Coffee
Buy Christmas presents for ourselves, ie adults
Go to dinner/see a movie without the younger set
Join a CSA

As you can see, I’m doing my bit [...]

Office surfers may face wipeout - Tech News - CNET.com
One network performance analyst at a Fortune 10 company estimated that 10 percent to 20 percent of all network traffic is nonwork-related. The analyst, who didn’t want to be named, said that can add up quickly.
“If you’re looking at a company with an $82 million IT [...]

A List Apart: 10 Tips on Writing the Living Web
Living sites are only as good as today’s update. If the words are dull, nobody will read them, and nobody will come back. If the words are wrong, people will be misled, disappointed, infuriated. If the words aren’t there, people will shake their heads and lament [...]

Well, I took Holbrook’s advice and installed Cygwin. That makes a big difference. I never would have guessed I would be so inured to a commandline as to prefer it this much.
I have installed a few packages (vim, gcc [don't know why, I just did it]). Nice to see there are lots of familiar [...]

Wealth and Our Commonwealth, William H. Gates, Sr. and Chuck Collins, 080704718X, Fall 2002, Beacon Press
. . . . individual wealth is a product not only of hard work and smart choices but of the society that provides the fertile soil for success. They don’t subscribe to the “Great Man” theory of wealth creation [...]

Apple - Safari
I can’t use it all the time and since Chimera is not exactly terrible, I’ll use it. They’ll both get better, so where’s the harm?
Where Safari fails me is in posting to my weblog, something I do regularly enough to expect reliability. For whatever reason, the javascript magic doesn’t happen.
Of course, [...]