Entries from March 2006
Not everyone is into this, but I ran across an interesting article about
careers today.
Careers don’t just reflect which jobs are available, they represent who we are as people. Fast Company was founded on that notion (among others). The ensuing 10 years have seen everything from the rise of online job boards to the Brand Called You, the birth of blogs to offshoring. All of these developments have had a significant impact on the way we manage our careers–and the next 10 years promise to be just as dramatic. A number of technological and demographic trends still in their infancy will shape the way you develop and guide your professional life in the decade to come. Here’s how to ride those waves.
Pitifully enough, lately I’m realizing that I need to get, and stay, ahead, so this piqued my interest.
Categories: Employment · Human Interest
There’s not much to say about this one. It’s a gigantic list of free software broken up into categories for easy browsing. Let’s get ready to downloooooooad!
Categories: Free · Free Stuff · Human Interest · Lifehacks · Open Source · Software
Google is killing me lately. I knew about this yesterday, but refused to post two Google posts on the same day in a row.
The TechCrunch blog has gotten ahold of some screenshots and a copy of the beta testing agreement for CL2, the long-rumored calendar application from Google. After a series of doctored shots, this certainly looks like the real deal, and you can go check out the login screen for yourself if you like. Unless you’re one of the circa 200 users in the beta program, however, it won’t get you very far. The screenshots of the inside show a simple, clean calendar with an interface style that echoes GMail rather closely, hinting at tight integration with the e-mail service.
In honor of this post, and the one just written yesterday, I would like to quote one of my favorite stories of all time. When you read the capitalized initials, simply substitute the word, "Google".
Ahem.
"Matter and energy had ended and with it space and time. Even AC existed only for the sake of the one last question that it had never answered from the time a half-drunken computer [technician] ten trillion years before had asked the question of a computer that was to AC far less than was a man to Man.
All other questions had been answered, and until this last question was answered also, AC might not release his consciousness.
All collected data had come to a final end. Nothing was left to be collected. But all collected data had yet to be completely correlated and put together in all possible relationships.
A timeless interval was spent in doing that. And it came to pass that AC learned how to reverse the direction of entropy."
- Asimov, The Last Question
Categories: Google
Sigh. I should have bought
Lifehacker flowers for Valentine’s Day.
Of course this is a good idea.
Speaking of which, I’m happy to say that I’m re-emerging into the world. Hello, people.
Categories: Blogs · Lifehacks
