Michael R. Barrick's blog
Wed, 2009/09/23 - 9:40pm
I just found a real treasure-trove of public domain vintage stereographs to play with :-)
As usual, Facebook readers will have to view the original post to get the animation |
Wed, 2009/09/23 - 2:12pm
Sometime around five or so years ago, it became du rigueur to have e-mail signatures in a format not unlike this:
Sun, 2009/09/20 - 10:01pm
Created from a picture I took at Sin City last Hallowe'en (model: Rheannon Lena McMullen) and a photograph from when I visited the Art Institute of Chicago in 2004. |
Sat, 2009/09/19 - 10:07am
Apparently the federal government has preemptively sent extra body-bags out to remote native communities in anticipation of swine flu making the rounds this winter.
Somewhere in Ottawa, someone thought this was a good idea and the best course of action.
Oringinal post: http://mbarrick.livejournal.com/888327.html
Fri, 2009/09/18 - 11:40am
I've got a job interview out in Burnaby near Production Way station today. It's not the greatest job on Earth and I'm not super excited about it - which pretty much ensures I'll get an offer - but I can't afford to pass up opportunities in this job climate. Tuesday I have what is effectively a second interview (I had to pass an online technical test to apply and I'll be meeting with C-level executives) for a much more interesting job within easy walking distance from home.
Tue, 2009/09/15 - 11:11pm
Tue, 2009/09/08 - 11:41am
I'm not certain that this is a Vancouver peculiarity or is this a more widespread problem, but I would really like to know what happened to paid lunches and actual eight-hour days. The cliché standard working hours are, of course, 9-to-5, including lunch and coffee-breaks. Yet try and find a 9-to-5 job in Vancouver. What you will find is 8-to-5 more often than not, and despite the span of nine hours this is called "an eight hour day" by "virtue" of an unpaid, one-hour lunch crammed in there somewhere.
Thu, 2009/09/03 - 10:00am
here is a lot of emphasis put on certifications in the hiring process. To a certain extent I can understand this, after all, Human Resources professionals are not Information Technology professionals and certification provides the only reliable interface they have for a quantifying whether an individual really knows something about the technology they claim to understand.
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