Give Me the (Snow)ball!

SmartMoney Quotes a Bloke

http://www.smartmoney.com/Personal-Finance/Employment/Did-You-Get-My-Resume/

Did You Get My Resume?

Google the phrases job hunt and black hole and you'll turn up 55,700 results. The reason for this confluence of terms, as any job hunter will tell you, is that applying for a position increasingly involves two phases.

Step one: Use the employer's online application center to submit your carefully crafted résumé and cover letter. Step two: Sit and wait until the sun burns out and your bones turn to dust.

Behind the awesome silence, of course, is the miracle of automated screening.

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Some outfits even survey their entire workforce to determine what experiences and hobbies are shared by their best players -- along with what their worst workers have in common. After that, it's "Let me hire someone more like Greg and less like Ted," says Greg Thompson, director of strategy for software maker SuccessFactors. Even if you've got a job, your boss could use the software to replace you with a clone who's willing to work for less.

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Mighty and Strong

...are the first balances of a fool.

Neibaum-Coppola

For Spirit and for Pleasure, life is given the chance of 'venture.
-Louis 07'08

Georgia-By-The-Sea

Carmel-By-The-Sea

PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal, 2002

The PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal was ahead of it's time.
Some great technologies are put to pasture long before their racing days are through.

Here is the home page with not only portlets, but also collaboration, content, context, syndication, plug-ins, productivity apps, information architecture, registry, tabs, branding, community, oh and enterprise applications.

Well done Everyone!

Rotundra, City Centre, San Francisco, California

Mendicino Coast, N. California

Migration Seasons of Animals in N. California

Notice the various animals, their migration seasons, and the times of the year...
(Mendicino Country, California, 2007)

Point Isabel, Caifornia

See Mom, we should do this everyday!

Southern CA Weekend

Mirror Me...

What A Thing Going On...

That Girl!

A Day with the Thompson Boys June 10, 2007

Merry Christmas 2006

My Brother Jim the NASA Scientist

Jim has been very active with several NASA missions over the last year - including expeditions to Chile and the Mojave Desert.

Here is a recent picture of his balloon 'Flourish' on the Mojave mission, where they were lava tube hunting from his lighter than air platform. That is Jim piloting Flourish.

Here are some links to the mission:
http://quest.nasa.gov/projects/spacewardbound/mojave2007/bios/thompson.html
http://quest.nasa.gov/projects/spacewardbound/mojave2007/info.html

Bravo Big Bro'!!!

Journey onward dear friend...(and so it goes)