An Ideal Employer

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008

I fell down a rabbit hole and found an interesting article that reminds me of the intangibles that led me to working here. Sam at CodeOdor.com writes about the Top 6 Non-Monetary Features I Want In An Employer.
Truly food for thought if you are looking for a new job or currently interviewing with a new [...]

Philosophy on Advertising

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

The purpose of this site is mostly personal. It logs a history of my mistakes and my journey of learning along the way. I hope that the occasional solutions I post to problems I come across will help you along the way, too.  I will not promise to post often. Instead, I promise to post [...]

The Unglamorous Side of Rocking the Boat

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

I don’t know if this applies to anyone else. This is my story about the pickle I’ve gotten myself into.
I have done a fair job of shaking things up for the Web department. I have even converted a few people in other departments into thinking a little different when attempting to solve a problem. [...]

Reading worth mulling over

Thursday, September 4th, 2008

I suppose at first it was simply shock. I have seen my great job turn itself on its head into something I loathe, in very short order. It started with the realization that I was putting off work by surfing the Internet and finishing nothing. No, it wasn’t the typical time stealers that Merlin Mann [...]

The Photo Department Revisited

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

The Good
I did not realize part of the Photo department’s problem was multiple versions of the same photo. All I saw half a million photos listed on a single server, with a count close to 750,000 photos in total on all the servers. It didn’t occur to me that the most basic file management solution [...]