I did some coding on the website yesterday. It was about four hours of research and coding, and under a dozen lines of new code when all was said and done. But I think I’ve got the referer-spam problem under control for the moment, and more importantly, I think I put the new code (and more importantly the new ideas) in place so that I can extend it more easily in the future. Between that before-noon productivity, a beautiful day outside, with a walk where I took a couple random pictures, and not trying to get a hundred things done around home during the afternoon, I feel pretty good about starting a new week. It’s been a while. Of course something will probably happen in the next couple hours to sour my mood, but that’s how Mondays are supposed to be, right?
pretty flower 1536x2048(527k) 480x640(43k) - The biggest companies are complaining that they can’t find workers. But I’m not the only one wondering What labor shortage? Besides, there are pleny of people complaining that there aren’t any jobs. The real problem is that the kind of jobs and the kind of hiring is changing. There are more people who want to work for themselves. There are more people moving laterally at more senior positions. And finally, there are people changing careers. It all shakes up the labor market, and companies that have shitty benefits, or whose HR departments are stuck in the 50s are at a huge disadvantage when it comes to trying to find the best candidates.
New Terror Laws Used Against Common Criminals, thanks to the ever-useful USA-PATRIOT act. See, methamphetamine is a chemical weapon, and a pipe bomb is a weapon of mass destruction. How Convenient!
Good Thing It's Open! 1280x1024(332k) 640x512(54k) - Meanwhile, Bush Seeks to Expand Access to Private Data with the follow-on to the Patriot Act.
- A column by Dave Barry put the screws to some telemarketers who didn’t seem especially happy when a lot of people called them. And when telemarketers complain of how many jobs will be lost because of the National Do Not Call Registry Barry responds by saying:
Of course, you could use pretty much the same reasoning to argue that laws against mugging cause unemployment among muggers, but that would be unfair. Muggers rarely intrude into your home.
