Connecting the dots ...
Unless it’s a very specialized pharmacy…
Originally uploaded by sennachan.
Update: I am told this one isn’t as bad as the next one:
What’s wrong with Logo Designers? Or is it just my dirty mind? Take the test.
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Does anyone else feel this is becoming a regular message .. again?
“Sorry, we couldn’t complete your search because we’re experiencing a high volume of requests right now. Please try again in a minute or add this search to your watchlist to track conversation. “
Technorati Tags: Technorati, Blogs, Blogging
Jeff Clavier ponders about startups’ hiring difficulties in the face of competition from the “Big 3”: Talent grabbing war at the GYM
“Did you also have this feeling that the “Big 3” (Google, Yahoo and Microsoft – let’s refer to them as the GYM) were not only deploying new features on an accelerated “tit for tat” basis, but they are also on a wide ranging talent grab ? I bet you did…”
Well, it would appear there’s one talent in even shorter supply then engineering, and this one is not even high-tech. Google is having trouble filling two Executive Chef positions. It must be a VIP position, a Google VP heads up the Selection Committee.
“It’s been a challenge to get someone who has the scale and quality (to live up to the company’s expectations),” said Susan Wojcicki, a Google vice president on the hiring committee. “
(LA Times via SFGate)
Google plans to invite the top applicants for a cook-off, preparing meals for several dozen members of a tasting committee that probably will include co- founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page.
I’ll be happy to volunteer my services on the Tasting Committee 
Update (8/5): I thought it might be appropriate to link to a Google Lunch Menu. (Baileys Irish Cream Cheesecake.. ahh). Notice where it is posted: on Google’s Job Opportunities! 🙂
Update (8/15): (G)oops, now they can’t even throw a party! 🙂
Technorati Tags: Google, Hiring, Perks, Chef, Corporate Benefits
From the DesMoinesRegister.com:
“Clark: Blog ‘reports’ lack media’s credibility
By NANCY CLARK
REGISTER STAFF WRITER
August 4, 2005
Today I’ll be talking with Dan McCarney.
The bloggers won’t.
I’ll also be posing questions during Iowa State’s media day to Bret Meyer, Todd Blythe and Jason Scales.
The bloggers won’t.
Monday, I’ll be chatting with Kirk Ferentz.
The bloggers won’t.
I’ll also get in a word at Iowa’s media day with Drew Tate.
The bloggers won’t.
Tuesday, I’ll interview Mark Farley at Northern Iowa’s media day.
The bloggers won’t.”
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The bloggers will allow readers to leave comments.
Nancy Clark won’t.
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Thanks to Duncan at the Blog Herald for reporting on this piece.
Technorati Tags: News, Journalism, Media, Blogs, Blogging
Russia’s Foreign Ministry said Tuesday it will not renew permission for ABC-TV to operate in the country after the network broadcast an interview with a notorious Chechen warlord…
… The
ministry called the broadcast a “clear fact supporting the propaganda
of terrorism” and said it contained “direct vocal calls for violence
against Russian citizens.”
In the interview conducted by
Russian journalist Andrei Babitsky, Basayev, who has a $10 million
bounty on his head, said he was plotting more attacks.
Among
other attacks, Basayev has been linked to a 2002 hostage-taking assault
on a Moscow theater that left 170 people dead, a 2003 suicide attack in
the Moscow subway that killed 41 people, and a 2003 double suicide
bombing at a Moscow rock concert that killed 17 people.
On
Sunday, Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said he was barring military
personnel from contact with ABC and said the ministry now considered
the network “persona non grata.”
Source: AP via YAHOO news
Hm
… Autocratic Russian regime showing what they think of Freedom of
Press? But wait … what would we think if a
friendly foreign Media Agency broadcasted an interview with
Osama? Ohh, I can’t wait for the huge debate about to start soon…
Update: What a coincidence (nothing more implied) that ABC gets
kicked out of Russia, and News Corp (Rupert Murdoch) buys into Russian TV
broadcasting.
Technorati Tags: Politics, Media, Television, Freedom of Press, Press, ABC TV, Russia, News Corp, Murdoch, Rupert Murdoch, Fox, Fox News
… had I not used Qumana:-( Two posts, to be exact.
A blogger’s worst nightmare scenario: finish editing a fairly long post, hit “save” only to see all the work gone due to a momentary server outage. Bummer. But wait, Offline Blog Editors to the rescue!
Qumana is a new, free contender in this field, comparable to BlogJet, Ecto, w.Bloggar ..etc. I’ve been experimenting with it for a while, and my only major complaint was about the tag-soup it produces. However, for the last two days it let me down bigtime.
Yesterday I had to stop editing an almost finished post, so I saved the contents to a file – this morning, trying to open it I discovered Qumana created an blank html file of 1k size … all my work is gone:-( This afternoon I wrote a somewhat longer piece, with several references to other sites, that simply took a while to pull together … finally, I’m done, click “post”, and voila! – Qumana exits, no post to my blog, and no saved copy either:-(
I’ve had it with Qumana – I’m considering writing all my posts in Onenote or Evernote, and just paste it in the online editor.
Update: BlogJet, here I come! (In fact I am writing this update using BlogJet)
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