Vancouver in the fall

A recent visit to Vancouver downtown on a typical rainy day turned out quite awesome for getting some nice, moody photos. All taken with the Sony RX100.

View from Pacific Centre
View from Pacific Centre
View from Cloud 9 restaurant
View from Cloud 9 restaurant
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Diatoms

I purchased a prepared slide of diatoms from Klaus Kemp in the UK. Here are some photos.

Diatoms, 40x * 2, DIC
Diatoms, 40x * 2, DIC
Diatoms, 40x * 2, Phase Contrast
Diatoms, 40x * 2, Phase Contrast
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New favourite adage

Hanlon's Razor

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

People are... A person is...

The team at coupon code website CouponCodes4u.com conducted a flash poll to ask Apple product owners what they thought of the announcements. Of the 1,427 people that responded to the survey, more than three quarters, 76%, believe that Apple releases products "too regularly."

WTF? Should have read "...more than three quarters, 76%, are stupid."

The problem with job finding in IT today

15 years ago, finding a job in IT was not too hard. And quite simple at that too. This was mostly attributed to:

  1. IT skills were lacking at the time - it was a young profession.
  2. IT skills could be counted.

I want to talk about the second point. When you search for a new IT job, the typical synopsis is as follow:

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