Archive for September, 2008
Thursday, September 25th, 2008
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Here's the regular daily 'scope:
People are more impressed by your efficiency than by your eagerness to please. You need to back up your smiles with an authentic performance. Additional diplomacy must be carried in your toolbox.
Here's usually the most interesting thing. Let's make a ...
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Saturday, September 20th, 2008
My friend Rani left me the following intriguing comment:
Mike - would love to know how the life/school/work balance (or juggle rather) is going. Have you been able to obtain equilibrium at all? What about nirvana?
I was going to reply as a blog post that night but spent too much time ...
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Sunday, September 14th, 2008
I don't take many notes in my 500 class, but I wanted to get this down from the professor, Dr. Marchionini:
If you're a professional, then you have to think. The professional dwells in confusing places where the boundaries are fuzzy and you have to make decisions. If you're not thinking, ...
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Sunday, September 14th, 2008
The following are comments I left on the high-fun personal blog PigPog. Back in 2005, Michael wrote a post on storing and retrieving nuggets of information. This invited a couple of unedited brain-dumps from your Humble Correspondent.
I'm posting them here because my original links to the post were broken after ...
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Sunday, September 14th, 2008
One in a periodic series of re-postings from the my first blog, Oddments of High Unimportance.
Oddments of High Unimportance: The Trials of Joblessnes
[W]hat I would do differently the next time I find myself without a job, and, just as important, what I should do now to ensure my next jobless ...
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