Diary of a Network Geek

Looks like they're about to go up.

Like Wikipedia, but on the micro scale.

It may surprise some readers here that I'm a geek in my professional life.  (Okay, so it may not have surprised many readers, but, still...)  And, as such, I tend to use computers in a lot of my daily life, including my creative life.  One tool that I've been experimenting with a bit is tiny, low-overhead wikis, sort of like a tiny, personal Wikipedia, only it's on my desktop and not publicly available via...
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No, this isn't a post about eating disorders!

Hackers are porting Linux viruses (virii ?) to OS X.

Well, Halloween is just around the corner, if you aren't celebrating already.

There is one, apparently.

So, it seems someone has figured out the answer to an old question which has often plagued IT professionals: How long are your skills good?  According to Eric Bloom, over at IT World, longer than you think.  He claims that the tech skills you have now will be half as marketable in two years.  If you read Slashdot, you've seen this article and the comments that followed.  Here are my thoughts, though.

Well, this is interesting...

Getting ready for a job interview?  Be prepared!

I'm an old Boy Scout, an Eagle Scout, in fact, so I'm always thinking about "being prepared", whether it's a trip to the zoo for photography or a job interview.  Scouts taught me, among other things, to think about situations long in advance of being in them, so I can prepare for what I might need and what I might need to do if things go wrong.  There are thousands of ways this applies to being a professional geek, but, today, I'm going to focus on one way in particular: job interviews.

Yes, I'm cleaning them out.

Right, so last week, we had a sci-fi book-picker.