When I heard the news that Randy Pausch died this week, the news hit me hard.  I didn’t know him personally (for a blog post of someone who did know him go here) but like millions of people I saw his Last Lecture video . I posted about his Last Lecture previously, I’ve bought his [...]

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I don’t typically do super short posts here (that’s why God invented Twitter) but for my friends that don’t have a Twitter account and may be looking for work, here is an excellent post on ways you might be sabotaging your own job search.
Happy job hunting!

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I recently saw the YouTube video of Randy Pausch’s The Last Lecture.  (Background Randy Pausch is suffering from Pancreatic Cancer and was given 3-6 months to live about 9 months ago.)  So did about six million other people.  I then saw that he had been approached to co-write a book about the content of the [...]

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After last week’s horrible tragedy at NIU, I wanted to float an idea that I’m sure isn’t new, but that I haven’t seen talked about much.
In the cases of these college shootings, very often the problem is the quick communication that is needed in order to perform a ‘lock-down’, and tell students to get to [...]

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I saw a snippet of this post in Twitter this morning (@gapingvoid Twitterer) so I found the full quote. A great quote for a Monday morning with lots to do.

clipped from thinkexist.com

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or [...]

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