I live in Deep Fringe Suburbia, out of the range of the mainstream cable internet service of our area, Comcast. For the first two years we lived here, we got along with Viasat, satellite internet that mostly worked (sometimes dropping me out of important stuff, like online bridge I was…

I am working on contract for a small division of a large company. There are just a very few of us techies working at this place. One of my first tasks was to get a “real” SSL certificate set up to point to the web address that would be pointing…

I spent 10 years deluding myself and a few others that I could make a living / get rich by trading stock options and futures. Anyway, I finally came to my senses and stopped trading such items, fortunately before I attracted any “friends” on Facebook or any contacts I made…

I’ve been lucky: I’ve only very occasionally had trouble sleeping my entire life. Some friends and relatives have not been so fortunate: I’ve read two books on the subject recently that seemed insightful about sleep. The first one is by a non-standard insomnia doctor:

Being optimally caffeinated at just the right time for your job interview could make all the difference, as caffeine increases verbal acuity and mental sharpness. But what’s the best way to achieve this? You could, of course, drink tea or coffee …

Basically: there’s nothing new under the interview sun. First of all, I wrote earlier about my experience with Hirevue … the algorithm (for finding whether or not two strings are anagrams) did work and was quite efficient (O(1)) .. but not the simplest one, available with a quick web search: …

I’ve been interviewing for jobs, and all too often these days the company uses one of the not-at-all-like-the-job tests that I complained about in another article. But twice this past week I received invitations to take tests from another company Hirevue, that I hadn’t heard of before. …

I recently made a change to the supplement mix I’ve been taking to control Afib (and generally support my health). How I came to this decision was a bit circuitous: I came across of “list of best 2020 podcasts” in the New York Times, and The Dream Season 2 was…

Do I really need to take the laptop with me when I take a “bio-break”? Read on. First, to define terms. In any selection/sorting scheme, you want to sort the desirable from the undesirable, but no such scheme is perfect. The two classes of errors: False Positive: your scheme marked…