Resignation blues: offer and counter-offer

I filed my resignation last Friday. I stated that I was given a chance to work with really technical and challenging projects, and that I’d accepted this offer. My boss was caught off-guard. He asked me to see him anytime at his office, and I did so late afternoon yesterday.
He was really grasping for the [...]

30-minute muscle workouts

No, it isn’t some [insert favorite expletive here] aerobic or pilates or whatever kind of thing. I’m talking about weight training, to build muscle and strength.
I’d been thinking of a way I could work out during the week, even while having to go to work everyday. Just to give a brief background of my situation, [...]

Disturbance in the (work) force

Well now, I haven’t been able to blog as much as I want to lately. The reason being, I’m about to change jobs and I needed to tie up some loose ends before moving on.
It’s still a Java dev job, but the projects sound lots more interesting than what I’m working on now (or not [...]

Headbanging

I always was a headbanger, what with my taste in punk and indie rock, but I never thought I’d ever bang my head literally!
Yesterday on the way out of an office, while looking down to my shirt pocket and reaching for my ID tag, I ran headlong into a freakin’ glass wall. I banged my [...]

Blogging from Writely

So I’m checking out Writely right now. UI looks alright, even if the icons are a bit big, almost cartoony. They say you can publish to your blog with this, and the drop-down list you get when choosing which blog to publish to, lists a lot of blogging services, including Blogger (naturally!), LiveJournal, and [...]

Dodging workplace bullets with Workfriendly.net

I’m currently reading Google news via workfriendly.net. Workfriendly.net is cool — it’s a web proxy that opens a browser window that is so… “Web 2.0-ed” or “AJAXified” that it looks like an MS Word window! It allows a user to look like he’s reading a word document instead of reading some website. Of course, the [...]