This is an article from [[Slashdot]] in which a guy asks the question Now that I’ve lost my job, what skills should I learn in the hi-tech world..

Given that this also just happened to me, I think I’ll ready all the responses (maybe I’ll find some leads). In any case,

I got many of the skill the replies mention, and I should be able to learn the other’s fairly rapidly.

So, if you’re hiring and you need a very experienced C++/OO developer, I’m your guy. Take a look at my “Resume: Michael D. Carney” for more information.

You just gotta love this.

I wonder when there’s going to be a MacOSX version made available?

Version 1.2 of the award-winning Ximian Evolution software upgrades its integrated email, calendar, contact and task list management functions to provide a more powerful and customizable solution for end users and companies using Linux or UNIX workstations.

How long will it take the US economy to recover?

Massive Spoilers!

Don’t look if you don’t want to know what Treebeard is going to look like in The Two Towers. It’s just amazing!!!

Here’s a link to a document describing Microsoft’s latest anti-competitive strategies to destroy open source.

The document reproduced below was presented at a Microsoft internal Linux Strategic Review held at the Microsoft offices in Berlin during Sept. 2002. I received it on 5 November 2002.

Jeff Jacoby believes that the legislature will just ignore the obvious will of the people… and he has good reason to think so.

Question 2, the ballot initiative to scrap transitional bilingual education – passed overwhelmingly on Tuesday, and the immediate response from Beacon Hill was a vow to gut it. Robert Antonioni, the Senate chairman of the Education Committee, told reporters to expect *potentially significant change” in the new law. ”I think people just saw this as a quick fix,” he said, ”and I don’t think they ever got into the details of this plan.*

In other words, the voters were too dumb to know what they were doing when they approved Question 2, so lawmakers needn’t show deference to their decision. That condescending attitude now pervades the Massachusetts State House, and if it isn’t vigorously challenged, it is going to doom the initiative and referendum process in this state to extinction.

If I was a voter in Massachussettes, and I am, this would just piss me off. If they do gut it, everyone in this state needs to make sure to vote these guys out the next time they have the chance.

But this is just the tip of the iceberg. Read on to find out how condescending and elitist these guys really are.

Howie Carr has a few words about what O’Brien would do if she had gotten into office.

Remember… the past is prologue.

She does have compassion for at least a few of the families of Massachusetts, although the “working* part is still in question. If she would just say she’s fighting for the “hack families* of Massachusetts, that would be more precise.

This is an important election in Massachussettes. Who got your vote for governor?

What’s up with this?? If it’s true, it totally sucks!

Romney campaign adviser Rob Gray said officials with the Service Employees International Union were seen entering voting booths with some voters in Ward 11, Precinct 4 of Jamaica Plain.

How can this **possibly** be happening.