Feb 6 2009 2:09PM GMT
Posted by: Suzanne Wheeler
If you haven’t joined LinkedIn yet, you need to quit stalling. Just by finding Suzanne Wheeler on LinkedIn JD Resources offered me an interview for an 18 month .NET project. Should I mention it includes full benefits? So quit putting it off and post a profile, already! Even if you’re gainfully employed it never hurts to put yourself out there.
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Feb 3 2009 4:18PM GMT
Posted by: Suzanne Wheeler
It’s a special occasion and you want to put a photo of a friend on a cake to celebrate. Innocent geek you are, you take your flash drive to the bakery with the photo on it an hand it over to the clerk. Come cake time, you get a flash drive cake by mistake. Classic miscommunication. Next time leave written instructions of how to access the picture on the flash drive. It may seem patronizing, but it will avoid future mishaps and being the butt of jokes for the next few weeks.
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Feb 2 2009 2:56PM GMT
Posted by: Suzanne Wheeler
This past week winter storms devastated parts of Arkansas and Missouri. Power is not expected to be fully restored until the end of February. I was out of power, and heat, for a merciful three days. (Oddly enough, we had picked out a wood stove and was just waiting to hire someone to install it.) At the manufacturing plant I work for the office stayed in business but the factory was closed. It reopened Friday and our only issues have been with the power. We’re lucky not to have any facility damage but that’s only because the trees had been cleared for a facility expansion a few years ago.
Our facility was saved further problems by good planning alone. Our backup server power kept everything in order for a clean shutdown. Our workstation UPSs made sure no work was lost. We’re still getting systems back online and working smoothly, but no data was lost and systems went undamaged. Let’s only hope the best for all those affected by this disaster.
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