If there’s one set of muscles that people obsess over at the exercise room that I frequent, it’s their abdominal muscles. At least that’s the one that they always talk about, regardless of gender or age. If everyone were to stop talking at once (which would never happen), I swear [...]
Archive for February, 2008
The great abs obsession
Posted in Bruce Byfield, Personal, exercise, humor, weight room, workouts, tagged Bruce Byfield, exercise, humor, Personal, Uncategorized, weight room, workout on February 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Two bad interviewees
Posted in Bruce Byfield, Personal, careers, corporatelife, employment, hiring, humor, work, tagged Bruce Byfield, careers, corporate life, employment, hiring, humor, Personal, Uncategorized, work on February 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As a sometime-consultant and a sometime-manager, I’ve sat on both sides of the interviewing table many times. Which side I prefer is impossible to say: Given a choice between the tension of trying to sell myself to a person who’s largely unknown to me and the discomfort of judging strangers, [...]
Spring arrives in Vancouver
Posted in British Columbia, Bruce Byfield, Personal, Vancouver, running, spring, tagged British Columbia, Bruce Byfield, Personal, running, spring, Uncategorized, Vancouver on February 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Looking at temperatures across Canada, I see a depressing number of minus signs. The sole exception is the southwest corner of British Columbia, where we are already enjoying temperature of 15 degrees Celsius. Several weeks ago, we had our last snowfall, but now we’re starting to see the first signs [...]
Styles of affection in parrots
Posted in Bruce Byfield, Parrots, birdwatching, conures, nandays, pets, tagged birdwatching, Bruce Byfield, conures, nandays, Parrots, Personal, pets, Uncategorized on February 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Few animals or birds are as affectionate as parrots. Mostly living in flocks, they are intensely social, so much so that interaction is intensely important to them – so much so that an ignored parrot is an abused parrot. Next to the average parrot, a cat is an ascetic, and [...]
What editors want
Posted in Bruce Byfield, Personal, journalism, writing, tagged Bruce Byfield, journalism, Personal, Uncategorized, writing on February 16, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Because I make a living by selling articles, I am constantly fielding questions about how to become a freelance writer. I always oblige, since I’m an ex-instructor, and the teaching instinct is still strong in me. However, I usually sense that they’re disappointed by my answers. For one thing, [...]
Wannabes talk, writers write
Posted in Bruce Byfield, Personal, writing, tagged Bruce Byfield, Personal, Uncategorized, writing on February 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Looking at the sessions scheduled for an upcoming blogging conference, I found myself thinking that the titles were depressingly serious. They included “The Other Side of Two Dimensions,” “There are 50 Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story,” ”Building the Brand of ‘Me,’” and others so painstaking and earnest that [...]
Just call me Robespierre
Posted in Bruce Byfield, Personal, journalism, writing, tagged Bruce Byfield, journalism, Personal, Uncategorized, writing on February 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Okay, now I’m scared. On Monday, I published a story about a boycott against Trend Micro for its aggressive use of patents against a competitor – a case that revolves around use of the free software Clam AntiVrius. By Tuesday night, the Trend Micro head offices were burning.
Well, not quite. [...]
Slashdotted!
Posted in Bruce Byfield, Datamation, Linux.com, Personal, Slashdot, journalism, non-fiction, writing, tagged Bruce Byfield, Datamation, journalism, Linux.com, non-fiction, Personal, Slashdot, Uncategorized, writing on February 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Slashdot, the portal site that bills itself as “News for nerds. Stuff that matters” has a strong hold on technical people’s imaginations and ambitions. For this reason, I’m often asked how to get a story mentioned on the site. They assume that, because I sell most of my articles to [...]
Public relations that works
Posted in Bruce Byfield, Personal, Public Relations, corporatelife, journalism, work, tagged Bruce Byfield, corporatelife, journalism, Personal, Public Relations, Uncategorized, work on February 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In another blog entry, I criticized public relation managers for not doing their job well. Doing so expressed a pet peeve – and one that I feel perfectly justified in holding, since I’ve done public relations work myself. However, in the interests of fairness, let me describe two PR types [...]
Zonker Brockmeier, openSUSE Community Manager
Posted in Bruce Byfield, Free Software, Personal, freesoftware, gnu/linux, linux, openSUSE, tagged Bruce Byfield, Free Software, freesoftware, gnu/linux, linux, openSUSE, Personal, Uncategorized on February 4, 2008 | 4 Comments »
The personal always trumps the general. So, for me, the big news this morning is not the continuing speculations about whether a Microsoft takeover of Yahoo! would be competition for Google, but that Joe “Zonker” Brockmeier has been appointed community manager at the openSUSE project.
I’ve only met [...]
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