Managed to design, configure, test, and implement a cross-WAN multi-backup, caching, and cross-site mirror and data transfer setup for the current employer ( Read more... )

Anyone ever suspected that they have a personal flaw which is holding them back, but none of your friends or family will tell you what it is ( Read more... )

I just realised at least some of the reason interviews annoy me ( Read more... )

Website designer has decided that as I'm not paying for broken goods, they're sending my account to collections. Good luck with that. I wonder if their collection agent knows that their own website (by the same designer) is also standards-incompliant ( Read more... )

After much prodding, I've found out that no, the invention marketer isn't actually interested in going ahead with the idea they expressed previous interest in ( Read more... )

When people complain about ads - on websites, mainly, but also on TV and at the cinema (oddly, ads in newspapers and magazines seem to slip under the radar these days despite making up around 75% of the 'content'), my response is generally along the lines of ( Read more... )

Being familiar enough with the commercially produced results of works in the medium gives me another advantage. The material's physical aspects are extremely well-defined in my head. When I put something together mentally, I can feel the plastic slide, click, and turn. I can feel the heft of the final result. I know exactly where the screws and ( Read more... )

As something of a minor incarnation of chaos, I do honestly try to keep it under wraps. I mostly play by the rules, even if I'm somewhat free about where I choose the rules from at any given moment. I go out of my way not to turn people's carefully constructed views of the world into bubbling, dripping insanity. I try and leave them approximately ( Read more... )

Having been on the receiving end of hundreds, if not thousands of these things in all kinds of media, from phone calls to email to social network messages to physical letters, one commonality stands out ( Read more... )

Just a handful, from the last couple of days ( Read more... )