Entries from May 2009

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

I’ve had it with the random hotties!

I started an experiment a couple of months ago. I was playing around with Google AdSense and figured I’d give it a try. So I added a 200×200 contextual ad spot to the right column of this site. To spice it up a little, I added a 200×200 image module directly below it, and hooked [...]

Tuesday, May 12th, 2009

Programming Job Trends Part II

Read Part I It’s amazing how fast two months can fly by when you’re living on panic and adrenaline. This would have been my first week at a new company if I hadn’t jumped to a different lifeboat a couple of aisles over. I’m pleased that some of the folks from my last team managed [...]

Monday, May 11th, 2009

Alex King’s Twitter Tools

A few months ago, I added Alex King’s Twitter Tools plugin to this site and thought it was pretty nifty. But I allowed it to turn me into a bit of a slacker. As long as I was micro-blogging and had this plugin to automatically roll tweets into a weekly log, I was able to [...]

Sunday, May 10th, 2009

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-05-10

at 12:15am in an emergency room, an X-ray indicated that Alex hadn’t actually swallowed the toy the boys claimed he had. Happy Mother’s Day! # trying to convert the wife from whites to reds with Rodney Strong Knotty Vines Zinfandel http://bit.ly/AtXZS # @bkocik Amen. I had to say the same thing last week. The last [...]