links for 2008-05-14
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A heartwarming story about a pony with an artificial leg
links for 2008-05-12
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A nifty tool that will tell you everything you wanted to know about your Windows machine and what is installed on it
links for 2008-04-22
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A nice website devoted to plugins for Quick Look in Mac OS X Leopard
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Another cool website with third party Quick Look plugins
links for 2008-04-18
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Some good advice about how to receive feedback on your performance
links for 2008-04-16
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A nice article that explains all the ways a file or folder can become invisible in Mac OS X.
Being Interested, Not Interesting
I was listening to a colleague talk today about a panel discussion he listened to where the topic of discussion was about how you get prospective employers to want to hire you. The main topic they kept circling back to was that for someone who is trying to land a job, it is more important that you look interested, rather than interesting. What they meant by that was that as someone who is interested, you are asking lots of questions and wanting to learn all you can about the job, the people, the company, etc. Someone who is interesting is simply someone who stands out. This might be because they have interesting hair or because they like cliff diving or some other weird thing. This by itself won’t necessarily land you the job.
As I thought about this statement, I would argue that you really need both. You need to be interesting so you stand out in your prospective employers mind AND you need to be interested, so they know you can think and want to learn about the job at hand.
Thoughts?
–Pete
Two Places
I was just listing to MacBreak Weekly, one of several podcasts I try to listen to each week. One of the regulars, a guy named Alex Lindsay, is the head guy over at the Pixel Corps. The group was discussing backup strategies and one of the things that Alex said as part of the discussion I think is a good rule to live by in this digital age. The rule is this: If the file doesn’t exist in two places, it doesn’t exist at all.
Learn this rule. Live this rule. Go make a backup of something.
–Pete
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Now powered by WordPress 2.5
I upgraded to a new version of WordPress — version 2.5. Pretty sweet so far. One thing that wasn’t sweet is that it completely broke my old theme. I’ve done some searching and found this new theme, called “Velocity”. Other than the default banner image in the header, I like the basic looks of this theme and I think this will be my new look. Now I have to create a new banner image. I think that’ll be a good project for later.
–Pete
My del.icio.us bookmarks for April 8th through April 9th
These are my links for April 8th through April 9th:
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My del.icio.us bookmarks for April 8th
These are my links for April 8th:
- Your one source for Apple Boot Camp, Intel-based Macs, Intel Macs, Dual Booting, Using Microsoft Windows XP and Mac OSX, troubleshooting, playing video games on Mac OSX, Slipstreaming, Two Operating Systems, Gaming for Mac, and cross platform compatible –
- Boot Camp 2.0, Mac OS X 10.5: Frequently asked questions –
My del.icio.us bookmarks for April 7th
These are my links for April 7th:
- Time Machine MenuExtra management « Managing OS X –
- Bombich.com: Deploying a Dual-boot Macintosh – A nice article about how to deploy a dual-boot Intel Mac using tools like Bombich’s NetRestore
My del.icio.us bookmarks for March 27th
These are my links for March 27th: