It’s amazing how cranky you get when you become an old man. You become far less tolerant of the low quality half-assed content being foisted onto paying customers in a perpetual race to the bottom. There was someplace talking about their high quality content looking to hire additional writers and they offered up a link to this post as the type of high quality content they were after. Well, the first few sentences honked me … The Forth PostRead more
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Just How Blatant Can They Legally Be?
Today I received the following email. You will notice they didn’t publish a rate for a natural born U.S. citizen who isn’t a walking talking national security risk. ============== Click here to if you no longer wish to receive our emails Dear Partner, Pro-Tek Consulting is a highly recognized provider of professional IT Consulting services in the US. Here is our open requirement which can be filled immediately. Kindly respond to this requirement with your consultant … Just How Blatant Can They Legally Be?Read more
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How to Set Up Mutt to Work With JustHost.com Email
Every now and then you are going to need to send email from the command line. In the world of OpenVMS we did it from batch jobs all of the time. Yes, there were abort routines which would notify all operators currently logged in and who had typed REPLY/ENABLE at their terminal, but, you still sent email just in case. OpenVMS had a robust email system long before we had an Internet, indeed, long before … How to Set Up Mutt to Work With JustHost.com EmailRead more
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Only 5 Days Left to Fulfill a Promise
There are only 5 days left for President Trump to fulfill a campaign promise. In truth, the easiest promise to fulfill given all of the promises and outlandish statements made during the campaign. End the visa worker abuse in this country which has decimated high paying jobs for college educated workers. Ordinarily I don’t pay much attention to the writings of Michelle Malkin. She seems in large part to be a creature born without a … Only 5 Days Left to Fulfill a PromiseRead more
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Move Quickly and Turn Worthless Shit Into Production
We’ve all heard the phrase attributed to FaceBook “Move quickly and break things.” Some people have turned it into a totally fraudulent development methodology called Agile. Today I got to have a lovely exchange with what could charitably be called “offshore support” from Dice.com. I had come across a posting of interest and wanted to identify all of the other pimps hawking the same contract. Why? Because, even though the pimp flagged the contract as … Move Quickly and Turn Worthless Shit Into ProductionRead more