MACBOOKAIR: The factory wipe nuked OSX 10.6 and the package

Sunday, December 12, 2010

… and they want me to rebuy it!

(You have to be kidding.)

Argh!

They will replace Snow Leopard because the machine went in with it and came out without it.

But they want me to rebuy the iWorks and iLife!

Same logic should apply.

Argh!

I hate computers. And, their enablers.

It’s either a product and it’s all my responsibilities. Or, it’s licensed, and my serial number is all that I should need.

Argh!

Now, I gotta find those disks.

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MACBOOKAIR: Coming back slowly

Sunday, December 12, 2010

The adventure continues.

My DROPBOX strategy has a flaw. For some reason, a significant portion of my PDF files were deleted. (No idea why?) Clearly, sharing among machines is a winner. BUTT (there’s always a big but) I need a ‘vaulting strategy’. The deletion could have been disastrous. But, it took four hours to recover the files. And, I immediately made a copy. So, I need a synchronization strategy for each platform. Basically a synchronization utility that copies the latest files to the sharing directory and updates back in. Have to think about that.

“Manifests” for each machine are obviously needed. I have to start that now on the other platforms. Need to have the link to the source and possibly the last distribution.

Need a data review and archiving strategy.

In next year’s storage plan, I need to have it monthly archive.

No need to save all the ‘stuff’ I am saving. Argh!

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JOBSEARCH: Accentuate the positive; not so obvious?

Sunday, December 12, 2010

TAKEN FROM AN EMAIL WITH A POTENTIAL “TURKEY”

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Dear XXXX,

Read your message and can sympathize with the frustration that you are feeling. First, you’re “marketing”, so “market”. Have you networked with XXXXXXX at MC? Have you read the book “Job Changing at 100K”? (Ignore title; it has a great concept of ‘structured networking’.) I have some job search materials on my site http://www.reinke.cc/COMCAST4/TURKEY/index.htm (Feel free to ‘steal’ anything you find helpful.) If you offer me a LinkedIn connect, I’ll accept and you’ll have access to my contacts. http://www.jasperjottings.com/ has a slew of alumni info for networking ‘targets’. I’ll take a peek at your LinkedIn, Facebook, and other ‘stuff’ to see if I can spot anything.

/Signed/

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AND AFTER A FEW MINUTES

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OK! I’m back. It appears to me that:

(1) You have, in addition to this persona, one “dead” persona on LinkedIn. Suggest that you clean that up.

(2) You have no “web presence” that I can find. No website. No blog. No domain. So, you’re not “marketing” yourself.

(3) No Facebook? (A recruiter will think “hiding something”. “Everyone”, younger that 40, has Facebook. Note: We don’t want digital dirt. But we want a “professional” Facebook, with friends and family!)

(4) LinkedIn profile makes it look like your a job hopper with lots of jobs.

[JR: Note, every promotion is listed as a separate job. It looks “job hopper ish”; not “upwardly climbing”. You have 30 seconds to communicate to the person filtering; use it wisely.]

(5) LinkedIn profile doesn’t use all the features.

Yell if I can help,

/signed/

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