Interesting article on firing an employee which was a good read (via kasia). I’ve luckily never had to do this, but I have been on the perpendicular to this. I say “perpendicuar” instead of “the other side” because I wasn’t the one being fired. No I was close enough to the bosses to know things […]
On The Firing of an Employee Read Post »
A week or so ago I noticed that Leonard from random($foo) was coming up to Vancouver for a week long visit. I had talked to him before about some ditital photo stuff and figured that it’d be cool to meet up. So after a flurry of emails trying to figure things out, I met up
Not An Axe-Murderer Read Post »
Every once and a while I check out my webstats or watch my apache logs. Just for fun…. there’s kind of a cool feeling to see when other peole are viewing your stuff (all 12 of you). I noticed (not for the first time) a couple of sites that seemed to be doing far more
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Cool, thanks to DB and Shaggy for pointing out, and then passing on info about, the Chilliwack Flight Fest, a free airshow featuring the snowbirds, a BBQ, skydiving and stuntplanes, all for free admission. I’m in, and the weather looks to be great. Anyone else want to come along?
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Last night the fire alarm in the building went off at 5am, which sucked. Getting dressed and going and standing in the front of the building to wait for someone to turn off the alarm wakes you up more than enough to make it hard to get back to sleep right away, like you could
Now that’s a Happy Cat Read Post »
Saw on slashdot that a new music store service had opened up on buymusic.com, $0.79 downloads, using Windows Media Player 9. Hey sounds good says I, so I try to go to the site and get this [archive.org link]: Thank you for visiting BuyMusic.com. In order to take full advantage of BuyMusic.com’s offerings you must
Fuck You BuyMusic.com Read Post »
I had a really good workout at the gym today. Almost a full 45 minute run (one break around 35 minutes), and good arm workout afterwards. The dip machine is right in front of the mirror, and I was exerting myself, and was making a frightfully mean face, and found it was easier with a
Some books read like the author just sat down and typed out what was in his head. I could do that.
Money For Nothing…. Read Post »
Darren [archive.org link] wanted pictures from a cats point of view [archive.org link], so I present this beauty, representing what they see every morning when they show up at 6:14am to lick my nose and pet themselves on my goatee.
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