A few days ago, Scott Adams posted this entry to The Dilbert Blog. He gave Dale Carnegie Training a rave review for a course on presenting that Scott had done. I’ve been looking for a course on presenting and public speaking for a little while now, and the last one… Read More
Ever had a job you hated? Ever worked somewhere that went from awesome to crappy because something just changed? You’re not alone. Over the past couple of years, I’ve had jobs that were ok, but not great. They paid well, but the work didn’t really use my skills. It didn’t… Read More
You can learn a lot about a company by its bathrooms. Since I’m male, I’ve only been privy to the workings of the male bathrooms at the companies I’ve worked at. Based on informal polling of my friends and colleagues, the men’s room is probably worse than the ladies’, so… Read More
My newfound love for Liferea has caused me to check how this blog appears in it. EasyBlog works quite nicely overall, but doesn’t appear to play terribly nicely with feed readers. It was trying to tell my feed that everything in it had just been updated, which isn’t true. I… Read More
I am, once again, late to the party. Last time it was mp3s. This time it is RSS feeds. This site has had one for a while, but only because the software I use to provide the blog section happens to support it without my doing anything. Until this week,… Read More
There is a kind of software in the world; a hidden, special kind; a kind that lives a secret life. This software lives inside companies all over the world. It coats the innards of servers, flows through networks, huddles in dark corners, unseen by all but a select few. No… Read More
It’s possible that you might come across this in your Plone site one day: you log in to edit something and notice a whole swag of items in the root folder_contents view. When you hover over them with your mouse, you can see by the link URL that the objects… Read More
I have a fairly technical job, but most of my time is spent writing, and reading, documents. Much of it is email, but the largest part of my work output is more formal documentation: design documents, HOWTO guides, network diagrams. I currently work with a team of a dozen or… Read More
As you can see, I’ve updated the look of the site slightly. The backend has had an upgrade as well, and should run a little faster and smoother. The plan is to make it easier for me to make entries in the hope that I will actually make some. The… Read More
An interesting discussion ensued regarding a presentation at the Open Source Developer’s Conference over on Richard’s blog at mechanical cat. Anthony Baxter also provided an opinion, and since I’ve presented at this conference a couple of times, and Unicity was a sponsor last year, I’m inspired to add my 2… Read More
