Yesterday all servers in the U.S. went out on strike in a bid to get more RAM and better CPUs. A spokes person said that the need for better RAM was due to some fool increasing the front-side bus speed. In future, busses will be told to slow down in residential motherboards.
I visited Laos in January 2007. I traveled to the capital city of Vientiane and then onto the World Heritage Site of Luang Prabang. I kept extending my trip because Laos is such a charming country. Laos and Cambodia are by far the poorest countries I have ever visited. Yet despite the poverty, the Lao people seem to be a very happy lot. The French said about their colonial subjects: "the Vietnamese plant the rice, the Cambodians watch it grow and the Lao listen to it grow." It is indeed a laid-back country.
If you've ever conducted an online job search then you know that many of the job sites, and even individual companies, expect you to enter the minutiae of your job and education history into their sites. This has to be one of the country's biggest productivity drains ... well except compared to doing your taxes!
Wouldn't it be great if there was a document standard for resumes? If there were, you could create your resume once and upload it to all the sites you wish to use.
I recently returned to California from a five month trip to Thailand and Laos.
One of my favorite photo outings was to the Royal Flora Exposition (Royal Flora Ratchaphruek) in Chiang Mai. The Royal Flora was constructed in honor of His Majesty the King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand. Royal Flora reflects the King's deep interest in agriculture.
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One of the photos above is of a painting of the King from the interior walls of the Royal Pavilion. There are about twenty paintings of the King illustrating His Majesty's love for his subjects in the different regions of the Kingdom.
I am in the process of updating my site to Joomla - an open source content manager system (CMS). I am very impressed with Joomla for both its power and ease of implementation.
Coming from a background as a developer in Microsoft shops, I was initially dismissive and apprehensive of open source software development tools such as PHP and MySQL. My initial apprehension of these tools was quickly eliminated as I found them to be not only more reliable than Microsoft tools but also more developer friendly.
I did not have the same initial opinion of Open Source applications and found them both unreliable and difficult to implement and use. Joomla has dispelled my apprehension for Open Source applications. Who needs Microsoft anymore?
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