After I wrote that entry on how businesses were migrating whatever they can overseas, I got to thinking about what jobs could not be migrated overseas.
Hrmm.. Retail Salespeople, Burger Flippers, mostly service type positions.. like Help Desk. But wait. You can outsource that, and move it, just not overseas.
Companies already outsource IT/helpdesk (and some have […]
I have a Motoroal T720 (as mentioned previously). I’m also paying for GPRS at $6.99 for 1MB of data month with Cingular. WAP works fine. I can read little text pages. I can download little .gif’s. I can download little MIDI ringtones. In fact, I can even download little Java app.
But.. the Piece of Crap […]
Refer back to a previous entry, “Being Unemployed“.
Slashdot posted a couple of more interesting links, which reflect how I feel in ways, and also supports my thinking.
The first: US jobs jumping ship. This was a subject of my previous entry, and shows that more industries are migrating overseas. IT just being the first. This makes […]
Nevermind.. I changed my mind. I’m going to store all the times in the db as PST. If I store it as GMT, I can’t use jackshit. No GROUP BY, no YEAR(), MONTH(), etc..
As GMT, I need to coerce it when I INSERT and coerce when I SELECT out, plus I loose all of the stuff […]
My server is located on the east coast. I’m located on the west coast. So there’s that nasty problem that if the data ever moves across timezones, or I move, it gets all screwed up. So.. I’ve decided to store all the times in GMT (actually I decided that awhile ago). However it turns out that […]
Ahhh.. feels good when you accomplish stuff. Though it seems like I’m going to start running out of things to finish up in regards to the reader’s side of my blog. Guess I’ll have to start blogging about other stuff! (Actually the admin side still needs some work, but that is less interesting to blog […]
Almost forgot, another accomplishment:
Squashed nasty timezone bug. Now the times are accurate (more so anyways).
Are we getting sick of these website status entries yet? It seems kinda lame to be posting entries on my website about working on my website. Yeah, oh well, as it becomes feature complete, I’ll have to start talking about other […]
Whew.. I’ve put in a bunch of stuff in the last 24 hours. OK, maybe not a bunch of stuff, but there are many noticeable differences now on the site.
The calendar. This displays the current month with today’s date highlighted. Days with blog entries are highlighted as well (in white).
Searching has been implemented. Accessible from the […]
Well.. so I go over to my girlfriend’s apartment, and on whim I try benchmark XML Lite again (I had done the original benchmarks at her place). Much to my amazement I was able to replicate the original results. I tried to figure out what was different (since I was performing this on the same laptop I’d as […]