Just noticed on Techdirt. Why does this matter?
More corporate environments might get to use enterprise IM. Enterprise IM creates a whole new pattern of realtime communication apart from email or phone. It’s searchable, loggable, linkable, etc.  It’s a better path to voice communication with your systems.
As I commented over on techdirt, it worked really well when I was working at UBS.
My friend Aaron got back from Kenya recently and put up a set of his Kenya photos on flickr. They are really good – he’s a man of many talents. And, I understand, still available for hire through some quirk of fate.
I also recommend viewing it as a slideshow.
Via Boing Boing, and my home state.
Fascinating stuff – they manage to find a way to eliminate the least important, least noticeable pixels in a path from one edge of a picture to another.
via the always excellent alex barnett.
At work, we have a full build process working now, thanks to Jiho the new guy and the msbuild task in nant. If you are trying to get vsto to work under nant, that seems to be the only way. We’re into some of our final testing now, it’s very exciting.
My sister’s sweetie John isn’t doing well. His health is rough and his dad just died. If you want to get in touch and wish them well, let me know and I’ll give you their contact information.
Sam and I are on the lookout for a house/apartment to buy. If you’ve got any good leads or advice, we always appreciate it. Sam has also decided to teach our cats to crap in the toilet, which should make for some amusing and terrible experiences in the coming weeks.
Installed Cygwin and rails under cygwin so that I can be more flexible in making a switch at home from windows. Very easy, not as harrowing as my past linuxy experiences have been. Then again, it’s always the hardware that’s the real hassle. Sam has generously donated to me the laptop I donated to her a few years ago for my ubuntu project.
> Hi Matthew, > > I'm very impressed with your rating/experience. > At the current time, I have a few clients that are looking for experienced > Ruby Rails developers (both contract & permanent) like yourself. There > is > lots of room for creativity and growth at these places. > > So, my contacts are below if you're still looking. Also, if possible, can > you pls forward me > your current resume? > > Thanks much! > > Leslie Doan > ****************** > Managing Partner > MINDSPHERES, INC. > 2570 North First Street > Suite 200 > San Jose, CA 95131 > C: 408.386.7246 > E: leslied@mindspheres.com > W: www.mindspheres.com
Hi Leslie Doan, I know it's tough to be a recruiter. Cold calling is difficult and much of recruiting is a volume game. But you aren't doing yourself any favors with this email. You're starting this relationship with me by lying to me. You say you've looked at my working with rails profile and been impressed. But that can't be true. I've never worked on a real rails or ruby project. I have no ratings or experience, so how can you be impressed.My resume is also clearly linked from my working with rails profile. If I can't rely on you to know that, how can I trust you with my career? I've worked with a lot of recruiters, and I know that high volume folks treat you like a tiny number. They are usually more interested in getting you hired anywhere at any price so they can collect a commission. I smell that big time in this email. If you show any level of familiarity with who I am or any of the many links on my profile, I'm so much more likely to work with you. Hope this helps you, and good luck in the recruiting game, Matt p.s. To make this letter worth my time as well as yours, I'm putting it up for my pals on my website. Don't worry, I don't have a very high readership.
As you might imagine, I haven’t gotten a response from Leslie. I don’t think she’s interested in investing time in my career.
When you have your own domain, you can set up mailboxes on it. Since I own MoreLightMoreLight, I’ve been using it to track spam sources and have been lucky to not get any spam until today. Any time I can avoid giving someone my email address for a signup, I do. If I can’t, I just give them their domain name @ MoreLightMoreLight. That way if they get scraped for spam I can kill that particular service and email address.
I signed up for the Ziki social network because they allow openid logins and it’s supposed to be the next linkedin. I’m not very impressed. Servers are slow, nothing seems to be responsive, and they got scraped for my first spam ever. I’m elated and unhappy at the same time!
Spam is after the jump
Oh, the things I’ve done.
Found the excellent Website Baker – a simple content management system. Probably what we will use for Gina Mauro‘s new site. I’ll be meeting with Gina on Saturday to help her buy a domain and get started.
Wrote an article on how to generate your resume in multiple formats with Zoho. It fixes problems in the google docs version.
Learned about polyphasic sleep. Seems like it’s a pipe dream for now. The basic idea is to compress your sleeping time to just REM sleep and do it on a strict schedule. I’ve read alot of the literature on the web and the common theme seems to be that it sucks to take a nap every 4 hours if you don’t have to.
I’ve started reading “The Filth“. I can’t really tell the difference between it and “The Invisibles” yet.
Saw the “Bourne Ad Infinitum”, where Jason Bourne tournes into an indestructible superhero. You know, you could really have stopped after the first few times he survived a paralyzing car crash.
More VIM love. I’m wondering how long until I’m faster with VIM than I am without it. Where’s the crossover point with VIM? More to the point, when I can I remove the vi/vim cheat sheet as my wallpaper?
Major achievements this week: Oh, I don’t know. How about celebrating 4 years of awesome with Sam?
Also, I scored major good son points with a perfect birthday gift for my dad. I bought him a picture of his boyhood home from the New York tax photo archives. I got the best thank you call ever. I’m still beaming.
Nate wrote a bit on it. And then I watched this google video presentation by the VIM Guy himself, Brad Moolenaar.
I hadn’t known this, but CTRL-N is great. As soon as you are typing something you’ve typed once before, CTRL-N to the rescue. It autocompletes anything!