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AFA has sent out a another poll. Their polls make me laugh with how they are phrased. This one was particularly funny so I thought I would share. You can see the actual poll here: http://www.afa.net/petitions/islam/islam.asp As you can see it is about Islam. You can see the current results at: http://www.afa.net/petitions/islam/ThankYou.asp?s=407537821   Here are […]

Is likely going to kill us for future IT support. Well at least those of us in the US, Canada, Germany, UK, and other Western Europe countries. Right now we seem to be in a phase where we are shipping low end tech positions to India or Costa Rica or Mexico or various not so well to […]

Monster.com has been making some changes lately. Mostly I am not liking them. Please note, I am not actively seeking a job but I have my resume out there (as I have for >6 years) in the chance that someone says, hey that is the guy we need and has some really good offer to […]

…so they can change the channel… The latest from my friends at the AFA below… They want you to contact CBS and pull programming. I find it funny that instead of telling their concerned members to avoid the channel they instead tell them to contact CBS and try and force them to change. You know […]

Because we do things like this in Texas… TEENAGE girls in a US city have been banned from showing cleavage in the classroom because it distracts boys from their studies. More at http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20067405-13762,00.html Thank goodness. I don’t know how in the world I, nor any other guy in the USA, ever got an education at all without […]

My first run in with Gartner was with an analyst back in about 2000 or so at a conference who told me that over 60% of the production installations of Active Directory would have to be rebuilt from scratch because people didn’t know what they were doing. I told him whoever came up with that […]

…have been busy little beavers. I have like five emails since the 10th. Someone got high speed!!! We will go backwards through the interesting ones. 1. High School Valedictorian refused to bow down, has speech censored: It seems some high school validictorian wanted to make some references to a god or christ or something like […]

Thank goodness, just when I felt all of my tax dollars were not being wasted properly I hear the Senate is going into a three week debate around making a constitutional amendment that says gay marriage is against the constitution. This is being pushed as an issue by the Republicans and they already know that they […]

It seems that a lot of people with no actual technical ability want to be in the computer industry because that is where they feel they can make money. In general lots of training companies help enforce this by telling people they can get them certified after a week or a month’s worth of classes. […]

What the heck does that mean? Well there is this style of restaurants becoming fairly popular in the US, at least in the Michigan area called Mongolian Barbeques. Basically it is where you select various meats, veggies, noodles, etc and throw them in a bowl, select some oils, sauces and spices and then some crazy […]