Introducing Dump Worthy

On 3/31/2006, In General, Web Dev, Work, By Will

While sit­ting on the toi­let read­ing the lates issue of e-Week today, I had a bril­liant stroke of genius. You see, I get all these free mag­a­zine sub­scrip­tions due to the indus­try I work in, and I am often amazed at the com­plete worth­less­ness of most of them. It took me 6.5 min­utes to scan through e-Week, read the arti­cles that looked remotely inter­est­ing, then toss the thing in the waste basket.

That is when I found myself say­ing, “there ought to be a web site that will tell you what mag­a­zines are wor­thy of read­ing while on the toilet”.

I am proud to present DumpWorthy.com!

I am assem­bling a crack­pot team of writ­ers for the web site now. If you are inter­ested, send the edi­tor an email: edi­tor at dumpworthy.com

 
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Workplace Interruptions

On 3/30/2006, In Internet, Work, By Will

Caught in the ho-hum dol­drums of life on the cube farm? (Believe me, I know how you feel). You need to con­tact the Bureau of Work­place Inter­rup­tions (BWI), a seem­ingly ser­vice that will use mail, email, the phone, or suprise vis­its to pro­vide you with a lit­tle bit of harm­less, in-good-humor moti­va­tion and self esteem.

Read­ing through the Pub­lic Archives of doc­u­mented inter­rup­tions on the site will give you an idea of what you can expect: any­thing from a recipe for Tofu BBQ Wings to the chal­lenge of a work­place rap bat­tle via email.

I haven’t taken the step of actu­ally reg­is­ter­ing for the ser­vice, but from what I can tell, it is free, and you can tell them the best chan­nels upon which to inter­rupt you so as not to upset your boss.

 
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Internet Explorer

On 3/28/2006, In Browsers, Internet, Security, Software, Tech, By Will

Still using Microsoft’s Inter­net Explorer browser on your Win­dows machine? Stop already!

With the most recent crit­i­cal, unpatched secu­rity exploits run­ning wild, reports are com­ing in regard­ing oth­er­wise inno­cent web sites silently installing mali­cious pro­grams that steal your pass­words and other sen­si­tive information.

Do your­self a favor and install Fire­fox or Opera, both free browsers that pro­vide a much bet­ter, safer Inter­net expe­ri­ence. There is no rea­son not to do this now, unless you like other peo­ple hav­ing access to your com­puter and every­thing you do on it.

If you are still using Microsoft’s Inter­net Explorer on your Mac­in­tosh com­puter, well, you are miss­ing out on the Inter­net as it is today. This browser is not sub­ject to the same exploits that the Win­dows ver­sion is, but it is no longer updated or sup­ported by Microsoft, and doesn’t take advan­tage of many of the newer fea­tures of the World Wide Web as we know it. You too can upgrade to Fire­fox for free.

 
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Assorted Stuff

On 3/27/2006, In Internet, Music, TV, Web Dev, Work, By Will

A buddy from one of my favorite online geek hang­outs, the Broad­band Reports Web Devel­oper board, has been col­lect­ing VW com­mer­cials on his site for VW lovers. I’ve always been par­tial to VW’s, hav­ing learned to drive in a ’67 Bee­tle, and their com­mer­cials area good reflec­tion of their unique­ness in the auto industry.

This is my last week at my cur­rent job, and I am excited. The future is wide open and I am look­ing for­ward to try­ing to make it on my own. I have been work­ing hard at drum­ming up some web design busi­ness, and have 6 sites I am cur­rently work­ing on. I also have a few other irons in the fire, and will write more about those as they (if they?) develop.

Next week is the big week: An Event Apart is on Mon­day (though I am wait­ing to find out if I still get to go since I won’t be an offi­cial RSIS employee any­more, even though it has been paid for), and Dinosaur Jr. is on Fri­day. Been look­ing for­ward to this for a loooong time.

 
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Changes

On 3/19/2006, In Family, General, Work, By Will

So with two weeks remain­ing at my cur­rent day job with the Air Force, I have found myself in a time of major change and deci­sion mak­ing. I have sent out about 50 resumes with only a cou­ple of responses; inter­views that I have yet to take part in. The long of the short of it is there are really not a lot of I.T. jobs in this town, and I have been lucky to have the ones I have had thus far.

Ali­cia and I had a long talk while my par­ents were here watch­ing the kids this week­end, and we came up with a plan. Unless some com­pany offers me a deal that is too good to turn down, I am going to do what I have always wanted to do, and that is go it on my own.

As a foun­da­tion, I have picked up a part-time gig with a local com­pany called Posi­tion Builders, who are a search engine opti­miza­tion com­pany. This alone is a really cool deal, because it has a lot of poten­tial to develop into some­thing big, and I am get­ting in as the ball is pick­ing up momentum.

In addi­tion to that, I will be try­ing to get as much busi­ness as I can for what was until now my free­lance busi­ness, Asheville Tech­nolo­gies. AT has been pretty much a hobby thus far, adding a lit­tle spend­ing cash to my wal­let each month, but I think with some help from some sales-oriented friends I can push it along into some­thing that will carry us along.

The prospects of all this are excit­ing, nerve-wracking, and sat­is­fac­tory. Of course there are a lot of “what ifs” and the poten­tial to fail, but there is also the poten­tial to suc­ceed, and there seems to be no bet­ter time than now to try it. We have devel­oped sev­eral Plan B’s in case none of this works out, but I am hop­ing we won’t need to go there.

So, does any­one need a web site or some PC support/training/consulting? Let me know.

 
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A Few Things

On 3/15/2006, In Family, Music, Work, By Will

You prob­a­bly noticed the new cur­tains. Finally, I got around to cre­at­ing my own design for this site. There are still ele­ments of the pre­vi­ous theme here, and I will be chang­ing them in time. For now though, I can at least call this my own.

Today in the car, I asked Gray what his web­site address was. He knew.

I heard a song I liked on Radio Par­adise the other day, and I looked up to see what it was. Turned out to be by Belle and Sebas­t­ian, a group I had pre­vi­ously avoided because I didn’t like the name. I ended up down­load­ing the whole album, called The Life Pur­suit, and am dig­ging it. I con­tinue to suprise myself, as I never would have liked such artsy pop-rock 10 years ago at all.

 
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