Odds & Ends

General site info, personal blog entries, and other stuff that doesn’t fit within techcommdood or beercommdood.

Consolidating Twitter Accounts

May 3, 2012 Odds & Ends

This is a call for thoughts/opinions. Over the years I’ve come to use 3 different Twitter accounts for my own needs. techcommdood started as a catch-all but over time was limited to techcomm and other professional content. It’s since become more conversational though still leans professional. billswallow started as a private account for close friends, [...]

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Job Opportunities Favor the Employed

July 26, 2011 Odds & Ends

This shouldn’t be news to anyone who has found themselves job hunting over the past 3 years, but the New York Times recently posted an article highlighting the issue of what I like to call “employment discrimination”. Yes, companies will ignore or set aside unemployed applicants in favor of employed applicants. It was troubling during [...]

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Does this mean we’re still swimming upstream?

January 26, 2011 Odds & Ends

This really is a fantastic (and sadly humorous) mash-up between what was said at the State of the Union Address and what viewers heard. All America Heard Last Night: ‘Salmon’ — Daily Intel

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Buzzword bingo time

January 25, 2011 Odds & Ends

Image via Wikipedia Top this: MacroCorp leverages industry leading widget deployment synergy to leverage dynamic next generation profit center ROI silos for macro KPI strategist deployments. And before you run screaming, yes, it’s fiction.

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Beery beef stew

January 10, 2011 Odds & Ends

I was in the mood to make another big crock of something delicious for the week. I’d followed a recipe for a beer-braised beef stew that was good though (to me) needed some tweaking. Here’s my version, and I must say it came out quite good. Ingredients: 1.5 lbs stew beef, cut into 1″ chunks [...]

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The obligatory new year’s diet

January 3, 2011 Odds & Ends

Image by ryry9379 via Flickr Once again I find myself entertaining perhaps the most popular of new year’s resolutions: lose weight and get in shape. Unlike previous years, I’m not setting a hard goal. This time I’m simply making it a point to eat smarter and move more. I’m using MyFitnessPal to track my progress [...]

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New Year’s reinvention?

December 29, 2010 Odds & Ends

Image by DailyPic via Flickr Hi there! Given most of my techcomm-focused blogging from now on will be happening under the GlobalScript banner, I’m going to be re-designing this blog to be more a reflection of myself rather than focused mainly on techcomm topics. I’ll be looking at new categories, pages, and content options. Perhaps [...]

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