Month: November 2013

I’m in an odd place in my social network experience.

A great many of my social network contacts (not counting the feeds I follow on Twitter) date to a time when I was an active Star Trek fan and when I was in my last venture into high technology employment. They are the people who, for whatever reason, would not or could not help to hook me up with employment when I landed hard on my ass following the dot-com crash in 2001, despite an acknowledgment, even at the time, that I would face age discrimination. Read more →

This post will be familiar ground for those who actually read my stuff. Indeed, it is composed largely from memory. I can, however, point at some books which, of course, are much too long to read, and whose length therefore justifies an ignorance that refuses to consider alternatives:

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