There’s been a minor update to the Amazon Wishlist Plugin for WordPress. This brings it up to version 0.3. It’s a suggested update for all users since Amazon has recently updated their required fields for the use of their API.
OK, time to be blunt: Don’t ask me specific things about Avanade unless I know who you are.
That’s my new rule. I don’t mean to be so harsh or blunt, but it’s a self preserving issue. Now, you can contact me asking me specific things about interviews, work environment, etc… via e-mail, IM, snail mail, what have you, but I will not respond. Why would I do this? Well, here are some reasons that I can think of:
Why do I even bother saying this? Well, I know that “avanade blog” or “avanade interview tips” are a couple of the highest hitting searches to find entries on this site. I also have been contacted in the past and I have done things that I no longer will do. However, I will say that I have been blessed with information from those much more wise than myself and am heeding that advice.
You might think that this is kind of a silly thing to do, but I see it otherwise. I don’t mean for people to think that Avanade is making me do this (they are most definitely not). I love working for them and I would speak highly to general things about the company, given the right situation and only giving up already publicly available information. Also, it’s not that I write about work on here that much, or with any regularity. I’m just not comfortable with it.
Now, when I was interviewing for jobs out of school, I didn’t know who I was going to be working for and I was sharing my experiences of the process with anybody who wanted to read it. I’ll keep those experiences archived here, but I just don’t write a lot about what I do. There’s a couple of reasons for that. Foremost is an NDA. You’d mostly be interested in what specifically I do and I can’t really talk about it. Secondly, blogging about work is just a mine field, in my opinion.
I don’t know why I’m even writing about this, but it’s been coming across my mind and I figure that if I write it down, I’ll move on. So, here’s to a topic that’s more interesting than this… like Buster the Pumpkin.
Last night was the first little poker gathering that we’ve done and it was a lot of fun. We ended up playing for almost three hours and in the end Jamie was our inaugural champion, winning $40. She was followed by Dan and then myself. It was cool to see everybody again, even if not everybody played. But, after the game was over it was off to Red Robin for some dessert or late dinner. All in all, it was a good night of games and fun. For some more pictures, check out my Flickr photoset. Now that the first one is over, expect to hear from me sometime this week about the next game.
OK. Help me out here, I don’t get Flock.
So, it’s social bookmarking w/ del.icio.us, blogging with your favorite blogging program, pictures courtesy of Flickr, and searching of your search/page view history. But, how’s that better than what I already do with Firefox? I have the del.icio.us plugin for Firefox, I have a bookmark synchronizer, and I can live bookmark Flickr feeds if I wanted too (but I use NetNewsWire). So, what am I missing? Read more…
…be controlled by the PC version of iTunes, even though I sync it with a Mac. Anybody know if this possible at all?
I’m a news freak. I read the news so much during the day that there isn’t much news that is new to me when it comes to the local and national news shows at night. During the day, I mainly read MSNBC, the Seattle PI, and the Minneapolis/St. Paul StarTribune.
Reading those three online papers I get good coverage of the local news from Seattle (and Washington), Minneapolis (and Minnesota), and the world. But, there is this paper that I used to read in print when I lived in Eden Prairie that I no longer read. Why? Because they ask have been asking for my demographics for what seems like a year. Read more…
So, after playing two hours of poker online tonight I have this desire to play with real people, but not in a casino. I’d rather play with friends. Which leads me to my question, anybody want to be a part of a weekly/bi-weekly game of limit hold ‘em? My initial thought was this:
Well, of course there’s more to it than that, but I think the real details aren’t really necessary yet, right? Well, that and I haven’t really thought it all through, but I’m close. Needless to say, if you’re interested, drop me an e-mail or a comment. If I get enough responses we might be able to hold a game this upcoming week. Also, if you want more details, let me know and I can tell you those as well.
Oh, ya, don’t ask about a free game. It’s not that I want to make/lose money, but I’ve played enough free games with friends to know that it’s just not very fun when no money is on the line. But, I think that $10-20 is reasonable, no?
