Posts Tagged ‘Internet’

The Internet’s Completely Over

I’m not one of those types to make bold wide-sweeping predictions and I try my best not to use absolutes in my day to day conversations. To put it plainly the world can be an unpredictable place and you should never say never. But something has come up and I think I’m safe in offering [...]

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The Search for Quality Information

Is it possible? Is it truly, really real and possible? In case you haven’t already heard there is a very interesting and exciting ‘computational knowledge engine’ website on the Internet. The site is Wolfram|Alpha which launched May 15th of 2009. They have a lofty goal in mind.  To paraphrase, they mean to deliver any and [...]

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Technology-less Personal-less Job Recruitment

(Question 1) Does technology kill the creativity of recruiters? (Question 2) Are head hunting human resourcers becoming lazy due to the Internet? (Question 3) Is the Internet and technology destroying common courtesy? (Bonus Question) Can we stop our world’s downward de-humanizing spiral encouraged by the Internet and technology? Is there any hope? As finding an [...]

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Go Daddy, Whoa Daddy!

I got surprised today! Shocked too! The source? Go Daddy. The surprise: A nice, polite email telling me how much my auto-renewed domains cost. Not such a good surprise. I prefer gifts with some kind of value, be it monetary, physical, emotional, you know, good stuff. Directed to me of course, not other people. Yes, [...]

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Technical Skill Semantics.

This entry is going to be a bit rough on me. As someone who dislikes technobabble with excessive terminology and classification this entry is going against my grain. You see, I’ve been looking for some casual contract type of work and find myself a bit uncertain as to how to rate or grade my skills. [...]

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