Yeah...a long-term relationship with a headhunter usually implies that you'll be seeing a lot of them. That kind of infers that they get you short-term jobs that suck and/or disappear quickly.;)
On a side note, ditto for contract agencies. Seven years ago I was totally psyched to find a contractor that paid me $28/hour for jack of all trades systems administration and network architecture. Being 19 or 20 at the time I was enthralled with that hourly rate. Many years later, while talking to a company I used to contract for, I found out they were billing me out at $250/hour. Riiight...
I've never had much luck with headhunters. Just about all positions I've ever been in have been found through previous cow-orkers, friends and being in the right place at the right time. Monster, Dice, etc. all failed me while I was unemployed for six or eight months a while ago. I've been steadily updating and expanding my little black book with all of my business and personal contacts so, if anything ever does happen in the future, I'll utilize acquaintances for job leads instead of headhunters.
I personally use BBEdit for all of my drafts when I'm editing from the GUI. It's quick, mostly lightweight and keeps backups of each successive save. No silly fonts or formatting to get in the way...just turn on Soft Wrap and go. Spell check is supported but optional so no annoying red squigglies to interrupt the creative flow.
The added benefit to plaintext is that it doesn't matter where I'm outputting to. Copying and pasting to a Blog or Web forum. Saving for a database, CMS or Word document. Doesn't matter. Plus saving local copies of all my Web postings allows me to keep track of how many times I've put my foot in my mouth.;)
> I definitely believe MapQuest is a big improvement over Yahoo Maps.
No kidding. Completely off-topic, but Yahoo! Maps tends to give street names instead of route numbers. So, even though a route number continues for 50 miles I get 100 different street names. Oak St. becomes Pine St. becomes Smith St. becomes Wethufagawi St. Guh. Now difficult is it for them to figure out the route number?
Yeah...that's the first thing I thought of. I actually got this info off of IRC and did a Google search for related information to report on my blog. Since most of the timestamps on old USENET posts were months old, I figured it was old news but still thought to myself, wouldn't it be funny if Slashdot picked up the story and took out their Web server as well?
I think it's about 2/3 of your salary with a cap at $280 a week.
When I did my six months of unemployment after my previous employer shut down their Boston operations I was given $952 twice a month by the very generous folks at the Massachusetts Department of Revenue. Plenty of cash to pay the mortgage and bills but not enough to play.
Hrm...cutting and pasting the URL into wget is no more work than cutting and pasting the URL into your download manager. Interesting logic. Oh, wait, I had to type -c. I better trash my Mac OS X box and install XP now.
I get DSL through Speakeasy and they allow hosting of Web sites. I pay $160/month for 4 static IPs and 768Kbps SDSL. Medium speed hosting and I host dozens of Web sites off my connection. Great deal!
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah...a long-term relationship with a headhunter usually implies that you'll be seeing a lot of them. That kind of infers that they get you short-term jobs that suck and/or disappear quickly. ;)
On a side note, ditto for contract agencies. Seven years ago I was totally psyched to find a contractor that paid me $28/hour for jack of all trades systems administration and network architecture. Being 19 or 20 at the time I was enthralled with that hourly rate. Many years later, while talking to a company I used to contract for, I found out they were billing me out at $250/hour. Riiight...
I've never had much luck with headhunters. Just about all positions I've ever been in have been found through previous cow-orkers, friends and being in the right place at the right time. Monster, Dice, etc. all failed me while I was unemployed for six or eight months a while ago. I've been steadily updating and expanding my little black book with all of my business and personal contacts so, if anything ever does happen in the future, I'll utilize acquaintances for job leads instead of headhunters.
Plus, BBEdit supports Emacs key bindings. Fiou!
I personally use BBEdit for all of my drafts when I'm editing from the GUI. It's quick, mostly lightweight and keeps backups of each successive save. No silly fonts or formatting to get in the way...just turn on Soft Wrap and go. Spell check is supported but optional so no annoying red squigglies to interrupt the creative flow.
The added benefit to plaintext is that it doesn't matter where I'm outputting to. Copying and pasting to a Blog or Web forum. Saving for a database, CMS or Word document. Doesn't matter. Plus saving local copies of all my Web postings allows me to keep track of how many times I've put my foot in my mouth. ;)
> I definitely believe MapQuest is a big improvement over Yahoo Maps.
No kidding. Completely off-topic, but Yahoo! Maps tends to give street names instead of route numbers. So, even though a route number continues for 50 miles I get 100 different street names. Oak St. becomes Pine St. becomes Smith St. becomes Wethufagawi St. Guh. Now difficult is it for them to figure out the route number?
Because this time, we really wanted a dozen walkers in the background and thousands of Ewoks scurrying around in the foreground!
Yeah...that's the first thing I thought of. I actually got this info off of IRC and did a Google search for related information to report on my blog. Since most of the timestamps on old USENET posts were months old, I figured it was old news but still thought to myself, wouldn't it be funny if Slashdot picked up the story and took out their Web server as well?
Hrm...be careful what you wish for... ;)
Generators. :D
That's why I have a separate UPS for my G4, firewall and DSL bridge! ;)
Also, no power problems reported in central Boston:
http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/showthread.php?s=& threadid=406947
Hrm...no power problems here in Lexington, MA or Haverhill, MA. All of the UPS boxen have been perfectly happy!
Ha, yup...that was me. I was extremely bored that day and, as much as he refuses to admit it, was egged on by a cow-orker.
I wouldn't have spent that year in college...
I think it's about 2/3 of your salary with a cap at $280 a week.
When I did my six months of unemployment after my previous employer shut down their Boston operations I was given $952 twice a month by the very generous folks at the Massachusetts Department of Revenue. Plenty of cash to pay the mortgage and bills but not enough to play.
What is this Windows of which you speak? I'm still on a TRS-80...
Yeah...Slashdotted before the first post is pretty bad. Mirrors? ;)
Hrm...cutting and pasting the URL into wget is no more work than cutting and pasting the URL into your download manager. Interesting logic. Oh, wait, I had to type -c. I better trash my Mac OS X box and install XP now.
And who said anything about Linux?
A blinding flash of the obvious...that's for the large version. Use wget -c with any of the below direct links for the smaller or zipped version.
wget -c http://progressive1.stream.aol.com/wb/gl/wbonline/ progressive/thematrix/us/med/animatrixlgfinal_dl.m ov
For those of you who keep getting dropped or get half finished downloads...
that's VisualJavaC++.Net#
That's what I was going to post, but I didn't want to give Microsoft any ideas!
JavaC++.Net#
Yeah...that's it...
I get DSL through Speakeasy and they allow hosting of Web sites. I pay $160/month for 4 static IPs and 768Kbps SDSL. Medium speed hosting and I host dozens of Web sites off my connection. Great deal!