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When do the recruiters stop calling?
Over the last few months, I've gotten more inquiries via email and phone calls from recruiters than I recall ever getting in the past. Now that I'm gainfully employed by a large employer, I seem to be a target for recruiters. Is it recruiters' MO to target skilled people working at large companies? I've only been in this job about 6 weeks; do people think I'm just going to jump ship? Of course I'm not going to do that.
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Digging out from the deluge of email
I've been dealing with email for about 20 years now and the amount of email that I (and everyone) receive has increased over that time. In addition, the email has become more and more important. It's no longer forwarding of jokes, continuing chain letters, or just quick "hello" messages, it is absolutely vital to businesses these days.
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Proofreading Mass Email
Last week I changed my AT&T account to be a 900 minute plan. As part of the change, AT&T sent email confirming it. The automatic email, however, was not proofread. The bullet points should have been alphabetical (in English), numerical, or simply bullets. AT&T sent the email with the bullets being Hebrew letters.
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Review: Ooma
A few weeks ago, I wrote about the promise of Ooma. I received the Ooma box soon after I wrote that and tested it. While the installation wasn't hard, my first night I played with it, I ended up packing it up and almost writing it off. My biggest problem with how I hooked up the Ooma box was that I put it in front of my router as was recommend; that created a double NAT such that I had one internal network running inside of another internal network. For most people, this might not be a problem, but double NAT sometimes causes problems with VPN connections, iChat video sessions, and connecting back to my internal network using software such as EyeTV's iPhone application.