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What If Job Postings for Drivers Were Written Like Job Postings For Information Security?

Posted on 5th June 2016
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A colleague sent a link to an image of a fake job posting that asks "What if drivers were hired like programmers?". I don't see much difference between this and the job postings for infornmaton security. Job title: Driver Job requirements: professional skills in driving normal and heavy-freight cars, buses and trucks, trolley buses, trams, subways, tractors, shovel diggers, contemporary light and heavy tanks currently in use by NATO countries. Skills in rally and extreme driving are obligatory! Formula 1…

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Helping Business

Posted on 25th September 2014

A recent blog post by security analyst Wendy Nather made me think about how I could use my technology skills to help my community. I’ll let Wendy’s word explain before I got on. There are a few movements afoot to help improve security, and the intentions are good. However, to my mind some are just more organized versions of what we already have too much of: pointing out what's wrong, instead of rolling up your sleeves and fixing it.Wendy Nather…

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Weyerbacher White Sun Wit

Posted on 8th August 2014

This is my first time using the suspended or floating object technique. I spent about 30 minutes online researching how to do it in Photoshop. Most of the information I found online was too difficult to understand. Photographer Evan Sharboneau of Photo Extremist created this easy to follow YouTube video that explained it all. I spent another 30 minutes testing out my technique using an empty beer bottle before attempting to photograph my main subject. I think the results are…

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Something missing as a possibility

Posted on 20th July 2014

The “glass-half-empty” folks lean toward the idea that something’s wrong, something’s not there, something’s missing-as in problematic. The “half-full” folks are attending to what’s actually in the glass-as in what could be brought to the party-as in “missing as a possibility.”Angie Mattingly Sometimes it's hard to see the possibilities before me. There is so much baggage and angst that my mind is clouded and I miss opportunity. I could instead stand in the moment and let the possibilities appear. Sometimes…

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