Archive for August, 2007
Guy Kawasaki on moronic job posting
Now here’s Guy Kawasaki on a moronic job posting on Craig’s List.
The posting implies that it’s paying chump change; it’s asking for too many skills; and it doesn’t have the sense to know that most great designers use Macs, not PCs. Sheesh.
ex-Jobster Exec uses Craig’s List, not Jobster
This is funny (?). Dave Lefkow, the former VP of Professional Services at Jobster, uses Craig’s List to fill jobs for his new venture. He writes: “at this point all I can say is Craig’s List rocks for small businesses, my cost per hire so far is less than $25 and my quality of hire […]
Companies that pay below market
I really can’t stand it when I read job ads where the pay is obviously below market. For instance, here’s an ad for a “software engineer” position at CoreStreet. Base salary is listed at 45K to 60K and they say they want “experience.”
Salary.com says that the middle percentiles for jobs of this type have a […]
Worst “best albums” list ever?
Here’s is Time Magazine’s idea of an “all-time best albums” list.
http://www.time.com/time/2006/100albums/index.html
Hmm, where to start? First off, I think it is wrong to have albums appearing that are compilations from prior decades. There were genuinely good compilations of, say, Hank Williams, a long time ago; so it seems silly that he would get a slot in […]
Incompetence, Episode II
From the New York Times, Sunday, August 19, 2007:
The precipitous fall in the value of mortgage-backed bonds was spurred by a mad rush by so many holders to dump them simultaneously. That is because they might not have understood what they were buying in the first place, instead focusing only on the bonds’ higher yields.
Incompetence, Episode I
From the New York Times, Sunday, August 19, 2007:
Broad new surveillance powers approved by Congress this month could allow the Bush administration to conduct spy operations that go well beyond wiretapping . . . lawmakers, in a frenetic, end-of-session scramble, passed legislation they may not have fully understood.
Philip K. Dick in 1964
Leadership in this society here would naturally fall to the paranoids. . . . But you see, with paranoids establishing the ideology, the dominant emotional theme would be hate. Actually hate going in two directions; the leadership would hate everyone outside its enclave, and also would take for granted that everyone hated it in return. […]
Junk News
This morning the top of the news on NPR was Karl Rove’s resignation, the Utah mine collapse, and the gouge on the Space Shuttle. By what stretch of the imagination is any of this news? Rove was quoted as predicting that Bush would end up with more favorable ratings, but that’s like speculating that Tampa […]
The Beach Boys
Julie, Caroline, and I went to see the Beach Boys tonight at the Hatch Shell. It was the most miserably organized event I have ever experienced in my life. After crossing the Longfellow Bridge, we walked up to the Hatch, and our entry to the esplanade and the island was blocked — a Boston cop […]
John Powhida International Airport
I finished a lot of work today and decided to check in on the John Powhida International Airport at Toad. Toad is about as big as the Plough and Stars; similar layout. The crowd is a bit more post-collegiate (as opposed to 30-something), and perhaps a bit less alcoholic.
Now Powhida is the leader of The […]