Diversity is fun, but it can get difficult to focus on so many things at once. It's actually what's keeping me away from Facebook. Right now I have my fingers in a bunch of proverbial pies that are starting points to potential virtual end-products. One part of my brain is focusing on a new site... Continue Reading →
Behavioral Interviewing Is Not The Way To Go – Forbes
Read the article. It makes sense. Talk with me, not at me. Let's chat on one side of the table, not opposite one another. http://www.forbes.com/sites/lizryan/2014/03/04/why-i-hate-behavioral-interviewing/
How to Walk without Leaving your Desk!
Somehow I found myself watching this interesting youtube clip about the Facebook Server rooms . A few minutes into this docu-data-archive (see what I did there?!) is a guy on a treadmil at a desk ... and I have never seen anything like that before! So I had to do some googling about this subject. Turns out... Continue Reading →
Hidden in Plain View
One of the best points of having 'Casual Clothes Friday', particularly for me, is being able to hide in plain site. As I particularly like shooting architectural and inner-city photography, it helps to be wearing clothes that are either or both plain and of a tourist appearance. So today I am casually dressed. I won't... Continue Reading →
Being Very Right
I like proving the vocational assessment I had 3 months ago to be very wrong. Yes, one might say a thing is either wrong or right, there's no place for a combination of the two. To that I'd like to butcher a quote by Stuart, owner of the profitless comic book store on #TheBigBangTheory -... Continue Reading →
Don’t Stop The Future: Blok IT!
I have a shed loaded with electronic waste that goes back 20 years. I have motherboards, sound cards, old cellular phones, cabling, stenographer tape decks and much more. Somewhere in there I have a 3GB box that is twice the size of a standard shoe box - I use it as a paper weight and... Continue Reading →
Entrepreneurial Signs in Adelaide
I found these two signs - one hand-drawn on the glass, the other a sign on the inside of the window - in an alley between Currie and Hindley Street in the Adelaide CBD. The first one reads: ARE YOU A FREELANCER, ENTREPRENEUR, OR RUN YOUR OWN SMALL BUSINESS?? CONNECT WITH HUB The second one... Continue Reading →
6 Simple Reasons why Customer Service should be Real People
There are six reasons why I enjoy working in help-desk environments: I am real, I will listen, I will support, and either resolve or escalate your issue, and I enjoy the work. Save Save
Essential Security in Windows 8
Interesting fact: There's no need to install Microsoft Security Essential on Windows 8: According to Microsoft... In Windows 8.1 and Windows RT 8.1, Windows Defender provides the same level of protection against malware as Microsoft Security Essentials. You can't use Microsoft Security Essentials with Windows 8 and Windows RT, but you don't need to—Windows Defender is... Continue Reading →
The Entrepreneurial Life of Stephen Mitchell 