Archive for November, 2007
COOL TOOL ALERT - ZipSkinny.com
Hat tip to Howard Adamsky for sharing with me a cool tool - ZipSkinny.
Zipskinny was created as a Web development “hobby” project using Census 2000 data obtained from the Census website. By their own ommission, the information is not 100% accurate and users are encouraged to bounce the data found on this site with those [...]
VIDEO - The best wedding first dance EVER!
This has got to be the best wedding first dance - EVER! It resonates with me (and I suspect with you as well) that this couple is not your average honeymoon couple, but that they have something wonderful, exciting and enviable. Why? Simply because they are being different and are having a good time doing [...]
BEAUTY is in the eye of the employer
BEAUTY is in the eye of the employer when it comes to finding staff for Scotland’s fashion sector. An ugly row has erupted over the increasingly common practice among clothes retailers, style bars and other fashion-conscious employers of demanding that job candidates include a photo with their CV.
One major fashion chain has already abandoned the [...]
Chevron pays $5.5 million dollars for wrongful termination
Ouch! (I wonder if this will affect the price of Unleaded next week?)
Check it out…
A former Chevron Corp. employee was awarded $5.5 million by a San Francisco federal court jury that found Chevron liable for retaliation and wrongful termination.
Kiran Pande, who holds a Ph.D. in petroleum engineering from Stanford University, was fired by Chevron in [...]
MI6 says, “James Bond is bad for recruiting?”
The success of the James Bond movies has given the British Secret Intelligence Service a recruitment headache — too many cranks want to join MI6.
“I think it gives people a false impression of what working for the organization is actually like,” the head of MI6 recruitment — named only as “Mark” — told BBC Radio [...]
