COBOL resuscitated–again
Some of us have heard about NJ’s call for COBOL programmers, and those who perked up their ears at that, will find this podcast hilarious. The commentators talk about this…
Better Breadcrumbs–A Plugin Comparison
Breadcrumbs can be so frustrating, yet so useful. They give users a shortcut to other parts of your website, as well as a snapshot of the site hierarchy. But, you…
Hacking Work: Breaking Stupid Rules for Smart Results, by Bill Jensen
Got this for one penny at Amazon. Of course, shipping was $3.99, but it’s still a great deal. The book doesn’t have a boiler plate of tools to use for…
Vendor roulette
Two days ago, a client reported a problem that I suspected was on the web host side. They couldn’t upload media files. This has happened before with Dreamhost, and it…
Officer, why are you in my room with a flashlight?
I was talking with my landlady last night, and she asked me if I was upset about the cops coming into my room. Say what? This is another episode of…
Linux update
A while back, I posted a story about my adventures with Linux on an older PC. I was stymied at the time, but I have made significant progress since then….
Linux will revive an old PC? Not so fast.
I bought several old notebook PC’s a while back, specifically for the purpose of giving them to my grandkids. I wanted to see if I could retrofit them as replacements…
A new direction on the job hunt
Okay, I’ve moved through the first two iterations of my job hunt–ramping up my profiles on Google and LinkedIn, and refining my resume so I have multiple versions. That looked promising for a while.
My 6 month adventure with (shudder) unemployment
This is an update on the original article, written in 2010. Remember those days when people kept saying “Cobol is dead?” We just laughed, and kept on coding. Well, laugh…
GTD, My way–an update
This is an update from something I wrote when I was using a (don’t laugh) PDA (Personal Data Assistant). PDA’s were the big rage before smartphones. Since then, of course,…