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My most valuable lesson in the area of resumes and touting accomplishments came from a meeting with the president and co-owner of the company I worked for in 1974. One...
July 15, 2023 at 2:35 pm
BTW back in 74 I started my first job in computing. We had twin 370/158, one with 768k and t'other with a massive 1mb. Everything was accessed via...
July 12, 2023 at 6:11 pm
As a boy, I helped my father dig trenches for water pipes, cut trees, plow firebreaks, and build simple structures.
Luther
Luther, you revived an old memory of my helping my...
July 12, 2023 at 3:43 pm
I do not have a recommendation. But this may be a better question to pose on a site like Toms Hardware or something similar.
True, and I do use Tom's...
July 12, 2023 at 3:05 pm
Ed, I didn't know that OS change could be done. Some of this stuff gets to be 'over my head' ( or maybe I'm getting lazy ). I'm still considering ...
July 12, 2023 at 1:56 pm
If I had not simply appreciated the value and satisfaction of doing something, I would never have survived 42 your in IT. Like the old expression, 'I was my biggest...
July 12, 2023 at 1:12 pm
I always did 'unit testing, even back in the days of Assembler, COBOL, and RPG. We 'commented' out everything after the part to be tested to stop processing at each...
July 1, 2023 at 10:24 pm
I see that I made a comment on this topic five years ago. Wow, time gets away. I agree about the days feeling extra long. And I was in fact...
June 30, 2023 at 1:35 pm
The third time I faced a 'downsizing' situation I actually planned too well. I took an 'early retirement' offer and headed out to my long-planned-for Rocky Mountain cabin. I was...
June 30, 2023 at 12:48 pm
I just have to share this with you all. I don't like this device and wish my wife would get rid of it. This email message was received June 24th.
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June 27, 2023 at 1:01 pm
I would not get my personal credit and finances involved in company dealings. If my company wanted me to spend THEIR money, that's OK, but I'm not going to take...
June 21, 2023 at 6:18 pm
Perhaps some of this is because I am melancholy by nature. Also, I grew up in the country where our society expects everyone to be friendly, however the kids...
June 5, 2023 at 6:20 pm
And here's another area of trust that worries me. I regularly reconcile all my financial accounts monthly. Why? Because they are all on computer systems that can cause errors. Just...
June 5, 2023 at 4:06 pm
When I was growing up, our house, when it was even locked at all, was locked with a 'skeleton key' (look that one up if you are not old enough...
June 3, 2023 at 9:04 pm
Rod, at my age I like to use both good graphics and good summarized data. Suffering from my OCD (self-diagnosed) I almost daily have to check in on my retirement...
May 24, 2023 at 4:12 pm
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