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Slowed Down
A former co-worker of mine recently started a blog. There’s no central topic that he writes about. Just random things about his life, experiences and whatever tickles his fancy at the moment. Reminds me of what my original concept for this blog was. Just to write about whatever was in my head at any moment. […]
A Conversation With A Former Coworker
I had an interesting discussion with a former co-worker last week. We met while working together at a particular company that I was very unhappy with. The company had a habit of mistreating their employees in various ways. When I left the company I told co-workers that I had a good opportunity that I felt […]
Pondering Programming Language Requirements For Software QA Testing
As someone who has been in software QA (that’s software testing/bug finding) for over 13 years I’ve often read job listings where the requirement listed knowledge of a particular programming language. As such whenever I talk with someone (recruiter, HR person, etc.) about such jobs I always ask why there is such a requirement. There […]
Why I Dropped GoogleVoice Voicemail
A few days ago I wrote about my first impressions of GoogleVoice. Now I have stopped using it. Here’s why. My first annoyance was with the dial in service. When you call to hear your messages you only have access to new messages. Saved messages cannot be heard when calling in. The only way to […]
Google Voice First Impressions
After months (literally) of trying to get in I finally got a Google Voice account the other day. It seems like there are mixed results in getting a Google Voice account by request. Some people get it in minutes, others in days and others never get it at all. You can put me in the […]