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- ~10 ways to avoid age-bias landmines during the interview process
- Getting to the interview in the first placeMy mom has had a lot of problems getting past the resume review in the first place. Many would-be employers don't know how to deal with someone whose "relevant work experience" began in 1964. In fact, on one online job site, the form...
- Tags: Leee
- Discussion threads 2007-11-05
- Unacceptable behavior in the workplace
- Two for one!At my last place of employment, there were two women who, incidentally, couldn't stand each other.The first one, 'Rita,' belched and burped continually. Lest one think this was a medical condition, she could turn it on and off mostly on at will. Whenever she'd get a call from...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, workplace, Leee, Sheila, job
- Discussion threads 2007-11-01
- (Images: Handwriting tests in the text message era)
- Which school of cursive are you closer to?Take two minutes and try this out. Does your handwriting truly betray your age, or are you older/younger than your writing would lead a reader to believe?
- Tags: Leee, handwriting
- Discussion threads 2007-09-14
- (Photos: Explosive views from Jupiter)
- Meet the...?That first picture reminds me a little of the "Meet the Beatles" album cover. Just saying.
- Tags: Leee, photograph
- Discussion threads 2007-05-02
- Links to individual RSS feeds for TechRepublic blogs
- More TechRepublic feeds -- non-blogTechRepublic New Discussions: http://techrepublic.com.com/5280-6257-0.html?type=4TechRepublic New Questions: http://techrepublic.com.com/5280-6257-0.html?type=14TechRepublic Articles: http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5150-22-0.xmlRecent White Papers, Webcasts and Case Studies: http://downloads.techrepublic.com.com/trdl_daily_xml.aspxTechRepublic Galleries: http://content.techrepublic.com.com/2349-1_11-0.xml
- Tags: Leee, RSS, blog, RSS feed
- Discussion threads 2007-05-01
- Earworms, revisited
- Needs some bugs worked out...Toni, you'll be glad to know that your biggest offender, "Copacabana," is in the database -- but doesn't appear to be searchable except through the title. Which is what everyone remembers anyway, right?
- Tags: Storage, Leee
- Discussion threads 2007-04-19
- Webcomic: Never tell an engineer you're bored
- True storyIn college I knew two guys, math majors, who got an apartment together. They were very excited that their number was 323-1127.32(3) = (11, get it?) 27.Bet the rest of you guys are jealous. :-)
- Tags: Leee
- Discussion threads 2007-04-12
- (Photos: The best costumes at NYC ComicCon)
- Scientific observationAs a veteran of numerous 'cons, I'd like to note that 94% of attendees wearing Superman t-shirts do not have super bodies. The other 6% typically are young children.Leee aka Wonder Woman
- Tags: Leee, cons, geeks, costumes, superman, off-topic, photograph
- Discussion threads 2007-02-26
- Will the government decide when and where you listen to your iPod?
- It's a safety issue"How far will we allow legislation to go before we are stripped of all of our freedoms? That's a pretty scary thought..."This is hardly a new thing. A good 20 years ago Chicago (and later, I believe, the rest of the state of Illinois) banned the bike-Walkman...
- Tags: public welfare, Leee, mobile phones, cell phones, tech news, safety, off-topic, ipods, Apple iPod, welfare
- Discussion threads 2007-02-08
- The Baltimore Colts win SuperBowl XLI
- Microsoft efficiencyMary Ann Richardson did a tip on this last year ("Keep Word from mistakenly changing what you type"). Still, this supposedly failsafe method can cause trouble too--a Reuters article about bees last year talked about "Queen Elizabeth [having] 10 times the lifespan of workers and lays up to 2000...
- Tags: Leee
- Discussion threads 2007-02-06
- A phone that appeals to your olfactory senses
- It stinks!Under no circumstances would I buy one. Not only would we have to deal with people talking on cell phones in movie theaters and restaurants, we'll have to smell them too! And, of course, what may be relaxing to one person may be distressing to another. All it takes...
- Tags: cell phones, dumb ideas, Leee, off-topic, phones, telephone
- Discussion threads 2007-01-25
- SuperVillans Beware!
- Is everyone Spiderman?I am followed by Green Lantern Superman, Hulk, the Flash, Iron Man.Took my kids to:http://www.ontariosciencecentre.ca/calendar/marvel/default.aspJamesAwww-right!I'm Spider-Man too! Followed by Superman, The Flash, Green Lantern and the Hulk.With great power...Looks like the GUYS are...Here's mine... I'm somewhat concerned that Robin came out so much higher than Batman....Your results:You are...
- Tags: Leee, Hulk
- Discussion threads 2007-01-19
- EarthLink's email leakage; ISP quality of service and support in decline?
- Not in decline--already thereIn May, the Louisville branch of a well-known regional ISP lost a server--hard. What was supposed to be a few hours' "routine maintenance" turned into a weeks-long headache of all-day hold times and clueless, condescendi
- Tags: customer service, isps, e-mail, gmail, networking, internet, FSR, Leee, Internet Service Provider, QoS
- Discussion threads 2006-12-11
- Porn on boss' computer--the Ethicist speaks
- In yesterday's New York Times "The Ethicist" column, Randy Cohen advised a tech who wanted to know what to do about the discovery of child/"early teens
- Tags: porn, whistleblowing, Leee, ethics, career, it management, Cohen, computer
- Discussion threads 2006-12-04
- Pros and cons: When to post a job opening and when to just fill it at will
- The other side of the coinSometimes there are other reasons for job postings. In fact, sometimes a job might not even exist.One local company, I understand, regularly posts job openings online in order to gauge interest in the would-be position and candidates' skills. The applicants are then compared with the...
- Tags: job, Leee, off-topic, career
- Discussion threads 2006-10-20
- Are you an office prankster? (Office and computer pranks)
- Are you an office prankster? Office and computer pranksarticle rootCovered in...Yesterday my friend Marci told me about how her boss who has an unprintable nickname mentioned something about wanting to see Bon Jovi. The next day his office was covered in Bon Jovi pictures - old, new, screensaver, desktop wallpaper,...
- Tags: bon jovi, bosses, computer, hardware, Leee, Microsoft Office, MIS, office, pranks, screensaver, telephone
- Discussion threads 2006-08-23
- Come to Think of It...
- Come to Think of It...blog rootHave your Pi and eat it tooForget St. Patrick’s Day this year. March 14—Tuesday—is thehighest of high holy days in all of geekdom: Pi Day.Think about it. March 14. 314. 22 ÷ 7 give ortake. Or, if you believe the old urban legend about simplicity...
- Tags: software, Leee, Pi Day
- Discussion threads 2006-03-03
- Geek Trivia: The math behind the myth
- Geek Trivia: The math behind the mytharticle rootAnd the name of the minister is...For the sake of completeness, the name of the minister is Robert Schuller. Besides being a very successful televangelist and bestselling writer, he is noted for being the guy who set up an open-air church in a...
- Tags: Power, Peale, Positive Thinking, geek trivia, mathematics, Leee, career, Robert Schuller, Fermat
- Discussion threads 2006-02-21
- Windows chief fields readers' questions
- Links don't work (1/30/06, 1030 EST)The links to the videos don't go anywhere. Can someone update them?Marketecture TrashAmazing that Allchin does not know his competition a bit better. Handwriting recognition, via INKWELL is built into the MacOS since 2002 and Mac OS X v.10.2 - the year that XP...
- Tags: hardware, Leee, Microsoft Windows, PC, SQL, tablet, vista, windows, Windows Chief, WinFS
- Discussion threads 2006-01-30
- Photos: Is this rock a high-tech spy?
- Modern technology - at least on the insideYou'd think the MI5 would be able to make a more realistic-looking rock from ALL angles. I've seen key-hiding rocks that look more...rocklike.I usually put my key hiding rock next to my wall. It's a hard place, so I think that works...
- Tags: espionage, Leee, mi5, photograph, rock, russia, security
- Discussion threads 2006-01-25
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