Archive for November, 2007

Unpaid Life Event for Ron K. Jeffries

Monday, November 12th, 2007

Zoe Slattery writes that IBM’s HR department describes a sabattical as an “Unpaid Life Event.”

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Google’s Android: A Mobile Game Changer

Monday, November 12th, 2007

A friend pointed me to Android Demo: Wowzers. Do yourself a favor and watch the first two videos.

Facebook and Being Out of Work

Monday, November 12th, 2007

It’s been three weeks since my employer showed me the door (a.k.a. “layoff”) after almost eight years.

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New Book by Malcolm Gladwell

Monday, November 12th, 2007

Jason Kottke writes about a soon-to-appear third book by Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point, Blink, and dozens of New Yorker articles.

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A Sulphur Crested Eleanora Cockatoo Loves to Dance to Back Street Boys

Monday, November 5th, 2007

You must watch this video.

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Interests from MEMS to Massage (LinkedIn Factoid)

Monday, November 5th, 2007

This list of interests (by an unnamed LinkedIn contact) caught my eye.

Profesional Interests include MEMS, Solar, ERP, MRP, 6-Sigma, SPC, Microsoft Technet, Oracle 11i, SQL Server, Pareto, Graphs, Charts, ISO 9001:2000, TS/ISO 16949, Plastics, Nano-Technology, Optical Networking, Fabless Semiconductor, CAD/CAM, Renewable Energy, Lean Six-Sigma, Theory of Constraints, TOC, 6sigma, CAD, CAM, Composites, Open Networking.

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