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Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

2010-11-25

We’re taking the weekend off to celebrate Thanksgiving, which in the United States is the day we see the most cases of Tryptophan overdoses and deep fried turkey fires,  It’s also the single busiest travel day of the year, which I truly believe is because in many cases, family members come together and are reminded [...]

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Whoopi Goldberg said it best…

2010-10-23

But the Beatles say it with more of a rated G approach. The Beatles-Happy Birthday Direct link for RSS and email subscribers…http://youtu.be/ztoSUhbNntQ Happy birthday to the iPod, Ryan Reynolds, Jon Huertas, Al Yankovic, Michael Crichton, Doctor Who, Pele, Chi Chi Rodriguez, Johnny Carson, and the Planet Earth, if you believe in that sort of thing. [...]

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Happy Labor Day everyone!

2010-09-06

RetroHack wishes everyone in the United States a Happy Labor Day, and everyone else in the world a Happy Monday. Since most businesses (other than retail) take today off in honour of good old American industriousness and effort, we interrupt our regularly scheduled posting schedule to bring you this insight into one of those holidays [...]

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Happy anniversary RetroHack.com

2010-09-01

When Google auto-renewed RetroHack.com recently, it struck me that we’ve been publishing content for (as of tomorrow) a full year on this domain. While some of our content did come from the older networkplumbing.org site that I maintained on blogger, solo and inconsistently at best, the past year has seen some pretty consistent blogging, on [...]

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f.lux is easy on the eyes

2010-08-30

I found a great little tool that adjusts the colour temp of my displays based on the time and room lighting. This not only reduces eye strain, but has a positive impact on getting to sleep after a long evening of overtime, or Diablo II.

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The eleven best Elvis covers

2010-08-16

Of all the songs considered to be the King’s, these eleven are my favourite covers. Some may surprise you, others may introduce you to artists you’ve never heard of, but all should be entertaining. I don’t think any will be controversial choices, but I invite you to share your favourites in the comments.

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howto://make remote teams work

2010-08-04

Throw out the playbook, forget about the conference room. It’s time to embrace instant messaging, web cams, and presentation software. These are the realities of having a remote workforce.

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I’m talkin’ imminent rueage

2010-07-12

Yes, we just had our first experience with a tornado. While unconfirmed, our neighbor saw a funnel, and our poor little 50′ shady tree out front got handed its arse. No one was hurt, and the tree only took out another tree, so except for some fence damage in the back yard, we got off [...]

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I won’t be quitting my day job anytime soon…

2010-07-07

however, I am now, officially, a paid and published blogger. My first blog post for something other than my own blog was just published on LoveMyTool.com. I lurve the graphic they chose for the post, and am really quite grateful that they requested the bio. Then they went a step further, linking it to my [...]

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Use all your well-learned politesse

2010-07-05

While most IT recruiters are great people who sincerely try to take care of their clients and their candidates, there are a few out there who exhibit some behaviours that are just dead wrong. This rant is intended to call them out on this, and release some of the built-up rage I’m harbouring. It’s also a veiled thank you to five who go above and beyond…if all were half as good as these five, IT would put recruiting on a pedestal.

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Happy Independence Day

2010-07-04

RetroHack would like to wish everyone a very happy Fourth of July holiday, which in the United States is Independence Day and for the rest of the galactic quadrant is the birthday of the Crab Nebula. I’ve always gotten a chuckle that here in the US we celebrate the date we declared our Independence from [...]

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY CONNIE!!!

2010-06-18

That’s right oh denizens of the tubes…today is my wife’s birthday! If you are on the special retrohack mailing list, then I’ll see you at the flashmob dance-off/surprise party. Don’t forget your skates. If you’re not, well, I’ll try to save you a piece of cake. Feel free to leave a comment below or tweet [...]

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