iSky, one of those outsourced call-center outfits, has an office here in Bend. They’ve been advertising pretty heavily in print, radio, and on local TV about how they have seasonal jobs opening up for the holiday season. Barney just tipped me off that he saw an ad on TV for them that stated its criteria were “Excellent spelling and grammer” [sic] . Barney was nice enough to call them and point that out to them.
What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
African or European? The science behind the age-old question.
What does a kiss taste like?
Joke sent via e-mail:
One day a teacher had a taste test with her students.
She picked a little boy to do the first test.
She blindfolded him, put a Hershey kiss in his mouth and asked, “Do you know what it is?”
“No, I don’t,” said the little boy.
“Okay, I’ll give you a clue. It’s the thing your daddy wants from your Mom before he goes to work.”
Suddenly, a little girl at the back of the room yelled, “Spit it out! It’s a piece of ass!! ”
What do you do if you ‘net connection goes down?
Of the many options cited in this column, you could always panic, turn on a TV, go outside, or, heaven-forbid, talk to your spouse. Thanks to Neil for the link
What happens when you don’t secure you WiFi Network?
Lowe’s, one of those big ol’ home improvement warehouse stores that (rumor has it) is going to built next to the other big ol’ home improvement warehouse store here in Bend, fell victim to one poor IT management. Granted, the guy who broke into their WiFi network did the wrongdoing, but Lowes needs to keep on top of a mission-critical system like that just a wee-bit better — they left it wide open for him to screen for credit card numbers, and do the damage he did.
In case you needed more of a deterrent
Please don’t drink and drive this holiday season. Bad things happen.
Be careful, folks
Bad things happen when mom finds out about the blog. Thanks to Jack for the link.
What to drink with your Thanksgiving Dinner?
How about some Turkey and Gravy flavored soda? Thanks to Jon for the drink of choice.
Text Only Outlook E-mail
Finally plowing through my RSS flagged entries here. Props to Ken to providing a link that shows you how to force Outlook to show text-only versions of e-mail, no matter the format sent to you. I’ll be installing this one at work.