Doing Anything for a Job = NOT

OK, when I have to put makeup on to get a job we are going to need a major change in the world.
SOURCE: Anything : science, phylosophy, engineering, life, love …
A college student, hoping to make a good impression in his job-hunting, sits as a beautician applies make-up at a jobseekers expo in Tokyo.

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Ronin – Word of the Day

Do Ronin!
A ronin is a person who is self-directed, self-managing; who views work and career as an adventure, not as toil, not as a negative thing. Of course adventure implies risk; it also implies stimulation and learning. Ronin turn problems to challenges. Their career paths are nonlinear, different from the traditional strategy of [...]

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How to turn my brain into jelly!

In my constant quest for Life Long Learning and following a link from Epsilion-Delta I found this wonderful explantion of the Fibonacci Number — From MathWorld

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A Great Grassroots service for bloggers that travel on a budget

Can I Crash ?
Can I Crash? – a service that lets you lend your sofa to travelling bloggers!
Welcome to CanICrash.org – a wiki set up for your travelling needs…
Let’s take out the hotel industry!
Join now, by adding your own place to the Country/City list.
What is this?
“Can I crash?” is a project of Toothless Tiger [...]

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Why Ronin?

Rocky from Hillybilly PhD asked the best question of the Year.
I think the whole Ronin thing is cool. Where and how did you come to use the term?
In the late 70’s maybe early 80’s I read a business/career book that contained Ronin in the title (My Google search for this book has produced no results [...]

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Amazing pictures of China

I cannot believe how beautiful these pictures are! I have to find out where these pictures were taken and put those places on my list to visit.
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J. Botter shares an awesome Link for the TV show LOST

If you like the TV show LOST ( I rank it Number Two behind Battlestar Galactica) this is a VERY entertaining read. the j. botter weblog – Lost Theory

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WordPress Import Feature

Excellent new feature I hope it stays up until I can get home tonight and use it on my old TypePad blog. I have been waiting for this feature for at least a month now. Now if we can just get our own domain names and the ability to add PlugIns and theme modification we [...]

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History repeats itself yet again.

This is a great post comparing the internet and blogging to the time when pamphleteers’ were finding another way to get the message out, bypassing mass media and it’s controllers.
∞Fouroboros
In praise of the auto-didact
Thomas Paine.
In 1995, Wired’s Jon Katz wrote a very prescient article on the power and possibility of the Internet, and, [...]

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What in the world does Egoboo mean?

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Egoboo is a colloquial expression for the pleasure received from public recognition of voluntary work.
The term originated in science fiction fandom, originally simply used to describe the “ego boost” someone feels on seeing their name in print. As a reliable way [...]

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Five (5) lessons to make you think about the way we treat people.

1 – First Important Lesson – Cleaning Lady.
During my second month of college, our professor gave us a pop quiz. I was a conscientious student and had breezed through the questions until I read the last one:
“What is the first name of the woman who cleans the school?”
Surely this was some kind of joke. [...]

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A Weighty Topic indeed

Hillbilly PhD » Blog Archive » What does integrity mean to you?
How important is integrity to you?
Who are some good examples of integrity?
Do you know how to build integrity?
Wow, this is indeed a very intense set of questions. The very first link on Google that I pulled up for integrity tossed me into some very [...]

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2006 Resolutions New Addition

The 2006 Resolutions are staying the course, so I thought I would go ahead and add one more to the list.
9. Develop more friendships with highly motivated people.
a. Find people who are up to something big and feel excited about life, and spend more time with them.
I am studying a Ruby on Rails book and [...]

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DeLurking Request

I may be late on this but I heard something about a DeLurk Week Meme and thought I would ask what all of you Lurkers would like to see more of or less of on this weblog? I pick up most of you on the Blog Stats page and try to visit but my comments [...]

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New Firefox tool for debugging

Ajaxian » FireBug: “It’s not your Grandma’s Javascript Console.�
FireBug is a new tool for Firefox that aids with debugging Javascript, DHTML, and Ajax. It is like a combination of the Javascript Console, DOM Inspector, and a command line Javascript interpreter.

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No contempt for this theme!

I am certainly NOT feeling “Contempt”, it is most assuredly my favorite theme of all the current themes on WordPress.Com and it does not seem to be missing any of the key features. It shows all of my catergories on my posts, picks up all my blogrolls and has a great color scheme IMO.

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XP On Your Thumb Drive

I really could have used this about 6 months ago. I still need to try it and see if I can resurrect either one of my 2 dead laptops.
Illustrated guide on how to boot XP from an ordinary 128 mb USB drive.
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Downhome reflections

I found a wonderful “New to me” website that really makes me think about my life and how I live it, If you are prone to introspection or just like reading other people who are, give this site a look. Hillbilly PhD.

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WordPress Must have plugin

BrainFuel
Chris Tingom
Searching WordPress Posts and Pages
Did you know that the search function built into WordPress doesn’t support searching pages or comments people leave? Well, I didn’t know that either. Now you can by installing a simple search all content plugin. Grab it here. I enabled it on BrainFuel.

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Scott J on Working a Geek Room

This is too important to leave to chance and memory so I am linking to it instead of relying on my memory.FuzzyBlog » Blog Archive » Who Came

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Awesome Panoramic View from Mt. Everest

Top of the world: 360-degree view from the peak of Mount everest

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A positive spin in favor of Corporations

Excellent Thinking points!
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Speech, 9/10/05 > Press Room > Sierra Club
There is nothing wrong with corporations. Corporations are a good thing. They encourage us to take risks. They maximize wealth. They create jobs. I own a corporation. They’re a great thing, but they should not be running our government. The [...]

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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. speaking about William O. Douglas

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Speech, 9/10/05 > Press Room > Sierra Club
He was our greatest environmental jurist. He had a very, very close relationship with my family. As an attorney, I think the case that was the most important was Sierra Club vs. Morton, where he actually said that he believed the trees [...]

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Reading Ruby and Rails Mailing Lists in style

I was trying to read the Rails mailing lists via email but the volume is so high even with Daily digest set that it became problematic. Along comes Dave Teare with a potential solution.
I have tried various mail clients to read the Rails mailing list for the past 12 months. As the list volume grew, [...]

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Best Battlestar Galactica blog

If you are a BSG Fan and you are not reading Ron Moore’s blog you are really missing a ton of great information about Battlestar Galactica

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