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I’m a post grad.
We were already declared geniuses, but now I (and through extension you) are all post grads.
On a more serious note. Link spammers are getting very sneaky. Be very careful when you paste anything into your blog even images like this one. (The original image code included spam links.) Both of these came from criticsrant.com, so be careful and always read the text included in all html code.
I am so totally stealing this video from Talk Like a Physicist, but it is worth it and I promise I won’t do it again. I really don’t have anything intelligent to add except: COOL!
New and shiny WordPress.org for a new and shiny version of WordPress.
This website is officially not running beta software now, so yay!
[geek]I upgraded after it was released for only 10 – 30 minutes. That has to be a record.[/geek]
Earth hour, which takes place on March 29th at 8:00 P.M. your local time, is an event sponsored by the World Wildlife Fund to raise awareness of the dire1 threat of climate change.
What do you have to do? Nothing much, just turn your lights off for an hour when 8pm rolls around. I’m planning on hitting my circuit-breaker for a total blackout, but you don’t have to go that far. Want to participate? Head over to the Earth Hour website for more information.
Now this is one of those “make a lot of publicity but not have much of a real effect” events, so not even the organizers would argue that this would save the world, so don’t worry about that part of it.
Notes:
- Hyperbole much? Yes and no. My view of climate change is: if we want to kill ourselves slowly, let’s go ahead and do it. [↩]
Web designers vs Web developers
Many people feel that outsourced jobs are a problem in American; however, it is just a reflection of the failings of the American education system. For several generations, America was a technological leader, and this technology created what are essentially low-leveled white-collar jobs such as telemarketing, informational technology, computer programming, and other support services. While America was the technological leader, these jobs were the source of revenue for the middle class as they moved away from the factory-type jobs. The American education system prepared people to work in these jobs that could not be performed by the most of the world. However, time marched on and the level of technology in the rest of the world caught up. Suddenly, the developing nations were capable of performing the same duties for a much smaller cost.
This is not the first time the American economy has shifted many of its lower-skilled jobs to developing countries.
