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Selling Jobs? I’m Not Buying!

I wrote this several months ago after a particularly annoying set of calls with a “recruiter” from a local staffing firm. At the time, I was helping another team in my division interview candidates for a Senior Developer with exceptionally … Continue reading

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Swine Flu is (maybe) 2009′s SARS (or not)

farkmain: Swine flu death toll: 150. Regular flu death toll: 13,000. But don’t let that stop the fearmongering panic http://tinyurl.com/c8z42f View Tweet seany85: They say you can’t get #swineflu from eating pork, but I just heard a sneeze from the … Continue reading

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Math Education: An Inconvenient Truth

I’ve been sitting on this post for a solid two months. I left it out of my baffle-clearing the other day because these thoughts are something I want to keep in text rather than being lost to the ether of … Continue reading

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In which I pontificate about the importance of backups

In the past six months or so, a few events have made me realize that my home backup strategy plain stinks! First, the fire alarm at my house went off… exactly once. It was a horrifically loud squelch, and I … Continue reading

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