Two weeks ago, I got hammered with one of this winter’s nasty “bugs”. I’m slowly recovering, but even now, am easily fatigued by normal tasks. The last two weeks have felt like a forced march, like walking under water with full pack.
Monthly Archives: February 2006
Weather
For the last 12 hours or so, it has been so bitter cold outside that anyone fortunate enough to have shelter must have felt at least a fleeting, reflexive sense of appreciation for that humble fact.
Whatever Happened To “Take This Job…”?
Used to be that contempt for authority was a core American value, especially when that authority was an insufferable boss.
One is hard-pressed to find even a shadow of that cherished iconoclasm in today’s blogosphere, and I’m hard-pressed to understand why.
Take the case of Dianna Abdala, a 24 year old Boston-area attorney who has become famous recently for a series of emails between her and one William Korman, a potential employer.
In a huffery/puffery because Abdala declined his job offer (he reneged on his original salary offer, so she decided to open her own practice), Korman threatened – in writing – to discredit her among his fellow attorneys, which tells us that we are not exactly dealing with Chief Justice material here.
Putting his threat into action, Korman forwarded the exchange to a friend, it was leaked to law firms on two continents AND to the press, including Nightline, and the rest is history.
Yuugghh…
Oh, Apple, touted for your avant garde design and cutting-edge technology – is this the best you can do for writing?
Through the Rabbit Hole
Adding yet a new dimension to the unreality that is our current political environment, Harry Whittington, the 78 year old Texas attorney who was shot by Dick Cheney and suffered a heart attack as a result, did the following:
He apologized.
User Error
A grotesque example of “User Error” as an excuse for lousy, abominable programming practices: check it out.
Howler
It’s a real Nor’easter out there, and we have 12 more hours to go.
Bullet Dodged, Snow on the Way
CapeCoder has new life, with a solid start to what could be a six-month contract, within a reasonable commute.
This followed a brief interlude on someone else’s payroll, which helped to keep the bank balance in the black this month.
Arrogance Dies Hard
The anti-food fascists in the American medical community were put in their place – hard – this week.
The instrument of their comeuppance? An eight year, $415 million federal study of almost 49,000 women which concluded that low-fat diets have NO effect on reducing the incidence of heart disease, stroke and breast cancer.
You read that right: NO EFFECT.
Small Miracle
I was having a pretty good weekend – upbeat meeting with my best client yesterday; dinner, lots of laughs and a movie at a friend’s house last night; and finished a huge pile of laundry early enough to do a couple of productive transfer station runs with Peter today.
Then around 4 pm this afternoon, things went downhill, fast, and I started unravelling.