Entries Tagged as 'Meta'

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

speaking of resumes

I talk about resumes a lot. That is because I see many of them. A zillion years ago, when I first had to write a resume, all I had was a crummy pamphlet from the career center that was completely unhelpful. So, I like to help out when I can so that I don’t have [...]

Sunday, May 11th, 2008

Puget Sound Tugboat Race

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

I just read 200 undergrad and graduate student resumes

My eyes are killing me. Why the heck are you cramming so much unimportant information onto your single-sided single-page resume? You make it completely unreadable! Especially when someone (like a hiring manager) is trying to scan through hundreds of scanned pages. Also, a new tip. Your paper resume will be scanned. It will be OCR’d. [...]

Monday, February 18th, 2008

Tips for Talks from Rands

I’ve been giving a lot of talks over the last few years, and I’m starting to get better at it. Rands does a great how to on creating a good presentation. Rands In Repose: Out Loud I would add one suggestion: go watch presentations from Lawrence Lessig, Al Gore and Scott McCloud. All were really [...]

Sunday, January 27th, 2008

I’ve got a flickr page

I avoided it for years, but I finally created one. However, given my past of having my photos stolen off my website, I’m not too keen on having the photos public. So, all but 1 are only visible to friends & family. If either of those describes you, contact me through flickr.

Sunday, January 13th, 2008

Moxy’s Pirate TV show…

YahooTV beta has my one and only screen credit! Of course, I’m listed as animator instead of R&D, but it’s nice that somewhere somehow my name is in a database as having worked on that show.

Friday, January 11th, 2008

fun with my new camera

I just got a new Digital Rebel. Here’s one of the first photos. I’m so enjoying the workflow in LightRoom with real RAW data…

Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

My favorite posts of 2007

Everybody else is doin’ it, so why not me? January 2007 Did a mock technical interview event tonight at UW (more tips for college CS students looking for a job) Interland (web.com) sucks – part the final February 2007 Flex, WPF/e and the new war for developer hearts and minds March 2007 CD Music Sales [...]

Friday, December 28th, 2007

I love these converse commercials

Monday, December 24th, 2007

My only shot in the war on Christmas this year

Happy Holidays Everybody!