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Projects and Resumes

Now is a good time to update my resume (cv), and I’m hav­ing a little dif­fi­culty in fig­ur­ing out the best way to present it. The clas­sic “say what you did for the employer” tends to assume that your involve­ment in pro­jects is bounded by your employ­ment, but that’s not always the case. For example, […]

2009 01 30 Comments (9)

Leaving Sun

As has been widely repor­ted, Sun Microsys­tems laid off a num­ber of people on Thursday. That num­ber included most of my pro­ject team and me, since the pro­ject I was man­aging was can­celled. Over the nearly four years I was at Sun I learned a lot, con­trib­uted what I could, and had fun work­ing with […]

2009 01 24 Comments (17)

Snow and snow

We spent Christ­mas and a few days either side in Sakat­chewan, land of –27 C days and even colder nights. But, as it turns out, little snow. Driv­ing along High­way 1 you could see the stubble of plants stick­ing out of the slim white cov­er­ing, giv­ing the hori­zon a green-brown tinge. There was more snow […]

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2008 12 31 Vancouver Comments (0)

Auto Industry Musings

In the on-again, off-again dis­cus­sions about bail­ing out three auto man­u­fac­tur­ers who are in large part respons­ible for their own prob­lems (which they admit), the major reason given for not let­ting them go the way of any other com­pany in fin­an­cial trouble is to cre­ate work and jobs for the people they employ. Surely better […]

2008 12 13 Comments (6)

Creating or Consuming

Fig­ur­ing out how best to spend “spare” time (that not alloc­ated to work­ing, sleep­ing, eat­ing, and the other neces­sary daily activ­it­ies) is always a conun­drum. Do I read blogs, or write my own entries? Do I knit, or surf Ravelry? Do I watch TV, or read books? The pen­du­lum has recently been swinging too far […]

2008 12 04 Comments (4)

Dawn and Remembrance

Although there’s lots in the paper about it, and people wear­ing pop­pies are every­where, Remem­brance Day seems to have less of a hold over Cana­dian life than Anzac Day in either New Zea­l­and or Aus­tralia. Anzac Day com­mem­or­ates the Anzac (Aus­tralia and New Zea­l­and Army Corps) losses at Gal­lipoli in the First World War on […]

2008 11 11 Comments (4)