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http://jessewarden.com/2009/10/flex-consulting-chronicles-1-you-are-not-a-contractor.html#more-1807


A contractor writes code for another company. A consultant does more than just write code; she does the typical consulting process:

1. Listen to the client’s problems
2. interview project members by asking questions
3. investigating project requirements, design documents, code base, and project tracking records
4. write up a plan that contains a set of solutions to the client’s problems, and present it
5. implement the plan

Consultants can be contractors; they can be called upon to be team augmentation, or the team itself to build the software, hired specifically for their software development & leadership skills. While contractors can work for both big and small companies, consultants typically work for only large/Enterprise companies. This is because the large problems that require a consultant’s skills are found in larger companies, and in turn they are capable of affording the consultant’s rate.

I stumbled across an art site that immediately took me back to elementary school. Can you tell why?

http://www.caacart.com/pigozzi-artist.php?i=Mansaray-Abu-Bakarr&m=16&s=105

Interested in the real deal of Traffic Safety? Such as how people who think that being really quick saves them from accidents? (it doesn't).

This is an online book by Leonard Evans

Chapter 9

Why is SOX always mentioned during Disaster Recovery? There really isn't a direct relationship.

http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=677910

Devil's Path

Guys are often in between things like jobs and houses, which means they’re more likely to stay up with you all night, drinking wine and playing gin rummy. They’ll rub your belly. They’ll lick chocolate off it. They’ll like your cute little dog. A guy is never going to shoot Old Yeller in the woods.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/20/fashion/20love.html?_r=1

It is common for opponents of health care rationing to point to Canada and Britain as examples of where we might end up if we get “socialized medicine.” On a blog on Fox News earlier this year, the conservative writer John Lott wrote, “Americans should ask Canadians and Brits — people who have long suffered from rationing — how happy they are with central government decisions on eliminating ‘unnecessary’ health care.” There is no particular reason that the United States should copy the British or Canadian forms of universal coverage, rather than one of the different arrangements that have developed in other industrialized nations, some of which may be better. But as it happens, last year the Gallup organization did ask Canadians and Brits, and people in many different countries, if they have confidence in “health care or medical systems” in their country. In Canada, 73 percent answered this question affirmatively. Coincidentally, an identical percentage of Britons gave the same answer. In the United States, despite spending much more, per person, on health care, the figure was only 56 percent.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/magazine/19healthcare-t.html?pagewanted=5&_r=1&em

That is why to attain something desired is to discover how vain it is; and why, though we live all our lives in expectation of better things, we often at the same time long regretfully for what is past. The present, on the other hand, is regarded as something quite temporary and serving only as the road to our goal. That is why most men discover when they look back on their life that they have the whole time been living ad interim, and are surprised to see that which they let go by so unregarded and unenjoyed was precisely their life, was precisely in expectation of which they lived.

Arthur Schopenhauer, Essay and Aphorisms, On the Vanity of Existence, 4

11. FREE WILL

Your decisions are not your own

Our gut instinct, our experience, is that we make the decisions to move, to think, to eat, to steal, to lie, to punch and kick. We have constructed the entire edifice of our civilisation on this idea. But science says this free will is a delusion. According to the world’s best neuroscientists, we are brain-machines. Our brains create the sense that somewhere within them is the “you” that makes decisions. But it is an illusion; there is no ghost in the machine. What does this mean for our sense of self? And for our morality - can we prosecute people for acts over which they had no conscious control? Times Archive: Necessity and free will, 1877

http://www.bspcn.com/2009/03/01/13-unsolved-scientific-puzzles/

1. the Stupid
2. the Chronically Insecure
3. Racist Democrats
4. Attention Seekers

Listed in decreasing order of importance

the stupids get broken down in paste-eaters, numbskulls, nitwits, fucktards, people whose heads get stuck in pickle jars, people who lose arguments with babies, douchenozzles, tiger petters, people who jump up and down on frozen lakes to test the strength of the ice, shaved gorillas, the voluntarily lobotomized, and finally, Cubs fans