Thoughts on the Job Search

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A short deviation from the technical content of this blog, as I complete my first week at the new job. (Shameless promotion of my new employer here.) There are a lot of people out of work right now, and many of them are my friends and colleagues. So, I want to spend a bit of time explaining what worked, what didn’t work, and post a few thoughts on finding employment during the current unpleasantness. Your resume is your marketing brochure, so get some help if you can. When I was terminated from IBM, I was provided with a generous package from Right Management. I am particularly indebted to the folks… Read More

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Grand Opening

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After a long hiatus, I am ready to start blogging again, this time with WordPress. I hadn’t done much with my web site for awhile, so as preliminaries, I upgraded to MySQL 5.0. WordPress installed without a hitch, but I had to get the good folks at NearlyFreeSpeech.net to change my DNS/canonical name settings to get the redirects to behave. Today, I finally settled on a WP theme, and promptly customized the CSS and HTML This will be an ongoing tweak for a bit longer, I’m sure. Now I’m too tired to write anything, but at least I’m back on the air. Cheers!

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