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Musing on my Career in IT

I just started a relatively short contract job today. It's pretty much on the level of the sort of work I was doing about 10 years ago, but these days underemployed beats unemployed, so I took the gig. And one day in I have to wonder how a lot of people occupying I.T. positions stay employed at all. I have a baseline criteria for evaluating a workplace: if my home network is technically superior, they fail.


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Some Thoughts on the Unlikelihood of Conspiratorial Alien Visitors

The Basics

Let me start by glossing over some of the classic arguments against extraterrestrial visitors:


This Angers and Depresses Me

Below is a snippet of marketing twaddle from the web equivalent of a chain letter/Ponzi scam, promulgated by an SEO snake-oil salesman. The business model is an "affiliate program[me]" where one earns commissions for suckering people into buying crappy, cookie-cutter websites for $20/mo.

A Sure Sign Summer is Here



This year's shiny new pennies come out :-)

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[Gothic BC] New Feature: Tag Your Friends!

I've just finished adding a new feature: now logged-in users can tag their friends in pictures in the photo gallery. Once you have added someone to your friends list just use the "tag friends" link in the caption area of the photo you want to tag.


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