Can I offer you coffee? Tea? GMail?

I think that gmail accounts are starting to flood "nerd" circles. There were services that are no longer running where you would be able to offer gmail invites. The last time that I saw it running, there was just 20+ just sitting there... Nerds only have so many friends you know. Well, maybe just so many that are gmail worthy. A lot of people are like "what? Another email account? No thanks.". What they don't understand is how nice the interface is.

A co-worker of mine keeps on giving them away, but then they keep on bumping him back up to 6. One day it will go out of bata, but there will not really be a flood of new accounts 'cause everyone will already have them. I think that their strategy is really smart, but I guess that's why they employ mostly PhD's...

Listening to: Massive Attack - Hymn Of The Big Wheel

Look Ma! I'm on Google!

Well, I think for the first time ever I can be found on google. Other searches bring up this page too. Weird. Does this now mean that I should be insightful, witty, and spel thigns rigth? Naaa... ;-P

Listening to: Death in Vegas - Girls

First day of school!!

To everyone starting school again, whether it is grade 2, grade 19, or somewhere in between, I wish you all the best. ;-)

Blogging Might Get You Fired???

Knowing that it can happen, and after reading Ryan's "Blogging Might Get You Fired" post, I feel a bit more nervous posting. Why? I don't think that I am saying anything that could reflect poorly on my employer or would reveal secrets. But I don't think that the other bloggers that got fired felt that way also. We keep on looking at those examples and saying "they never got warned at all, just fired". I guess the bloggers that do get warned never post "Hey look at me! This could get me fired! Let's see how far I can go. Weeee!!!"

It's a big deal now I guess... what's the fun in being able to blog if you can't talk about what's happening with your life? Not giving details is cool, but in general. *sigh*

The one that got me was the story where someone got fired for talking about moving from JSP's to PHP. Now, I would never have thought that was a secret in any way. Wouldn't you be able to tell from looking at the webpage? Yikes. To protect myself, do I have to pretend that I don't even go to work? Or should I use a level of secrecy like if I was working for csis or something?

The thing that I don't understand about that last example about revealing moving from one tech to another, does that mean you can't put on your resume what you have been doing?

I'm a bit confused. I'm not sure if I will mention work anymore. But I want to, damnit. Maybe I'll just become a secret agent man and have a nice clear line of what I can / cannot say.

Listening to: Underworld - Cowgirl

Laundry 1, Jim 0

Not that I haven't soaked my running clothes before, but I still need practise. I took my white shirt and black shorts (which I have soaked before together) and decided to add in my red towel and some other black clothes. *sigh* Wrong. I ended up with a pink shirt and socks. I (with direction from Laura) was able to get the shirt white again (with some black spots) but the socks are pretty pink. Ah well. Lesson learned (hopefully). :-P

Getting worked up over nothing

A couple of times over the last couple of months I've thought that events would unfold a certain way (badly) and in the time coming up to these events have prepared for the worse. Then the even happens, and it goes fine, without problems.

Now, this by itself is good news. The bad part is the wasted emotion and anxiety before the event. But in a way it is good, in that it teaches me (and hopefully I'll learn) how to better predict the likely outcome for an event. Really, it's just studying human nature / behaviour more.

Funny

Q: What did you cut yourself on?
A: Yogurt.

- an actual conversation that I had this morning.