While today is jeans for genes day here in Australia, in about 26 days it will be Blog Day 2005 (Thanks to Richard Giles). Updated: Remove the Blog Day counter as it broke the site in Firefox.
Author Archives: Michael Specht
links for 2005-08-04
Computerworld | RSS poses not so simple problems for online ads Item discussing the RSS details on around the growth in RSS advertising (tags: RSS advertising) Fast Company Now An article from a couple of months ago in Fast Company on work life balance and engagement (tags: business WorkLife)
The violent job offer
The guys at CVOz have a bit of a sense of humor. They have produced two funny recruiting clips, one a flash movie the other a regular movie. I like the cute little message, use CVOz and you will get hit with job offers.
Comment moderation
I have implemented a degree of comment moderation based on certain key words to limit some of the comment spam. If your comment ends up in moderation I will get to it and approve as long as it is not spam (links to online poker sites etc). Mike sorry for the slight delay in gettingContinue reading “Comment moderation”
links for 2005-08-02
ATP Innovations Local SW provider MyStaff gets Government grant of $64,000 (tags: grant mystaff) Grammar links A whole lot of links to grammar sites, needed for work but might be interesting for others (tags: grammar)
It’s Monday
Well it’s Monday afternoon and I am back from holidays, 8 days of snow with very little outside communications how fantastic. A great time was had by all and I hope to put up some photos at some point in the future. I see some comment spammer left a few items for me to cleanContinue reading “It’s Monday”
Next week
Well for the next 8 days we (the family) will be spending every waking moment on planks hurtling down a mountain covered with snow while at night tucked away in our Snowy Mountains retreat at Charlotte Pass. Guess what, not blogging at all. In fact most modern day technology is not easily available. Mobile phonesContinue reading “Next week”
links for 2005-07-22
PHP Contest on SDN A contest is being run by SDN about writing a PHP program around SU01, cool if you are a PHP SAP geek. (tags: SAP PHP) Technical Careers @ Microsoft : Did you say 20%? Jenna the new girl at JobBlog posts about Google’s 20% and Microsoft’s repsonse (tags: google Microsoft recruitment)Continue reading “links for 2005-07-22”
Recruiting in Australia (Part 1)
Over the last few weeks I have become very concerned about the state of the recruitment industry in Australia, in particular around IT although the comments will also hold true of other industries. I am preparing a few posts to work through the issues, mostly for my purposes but others might also benefit. (Had toContinue reading “Recruiting in Australia (Part 1)”
New RSS Reader
Today I moved my RSS reader from Newsgator Online to Pluck a free web based reader for IE and now Firefox. I had been looking to go back to BlogMatrix Jager but I just could not get it to work through the proxies. I must say the interface for Pluck is fantastic it is almostContinue reading “New RSS Reader”
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