Lost post #2
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Lately I’ve been randomly getting logged out of Squarespace while writing posts. I just wrote a nice, relatively short one, but I got logged out in the process and was not smart enough to copy and paste it somewhere else. So I’ll have to write it again another time.
Lesson learned, my friend. Lesson learned.
Anyway, just [...]
Gen Y is not the first post racial generation
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In doing research for my posts at the TalentEgg blog, I often come across articles that have nothing to do with student and new grad careers. There is much discussion, especially by Baby Boomers, about what it means to be part of Gen Y and how the older generations can come to understand us.
Today I [...]
Getting geeky with Feedly
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After a month and a half, I’ve ditched Digsby. It was always disconnecting and reconnecting and just generally being annoying. I’ve decided to go back to the original chat clients and manage e-mail and social networks through Firefox add-ons.
But I found the greatest thing along the way — Feedly is an RSS feed reader (and Firefox [...]
I resolve to not make resolutions
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Through November and December, I applied to about 10 internships at newspapers across the country. So far I’ve received only one response — thanking me for applying.
More deadlines are coming up this month and the next at smaller newspapers in smaller cities. That’s fine, I’ll apply. But it still doesn’t feel real.
I graduate in four months. [...]
Trying to find joy
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The economy is bad, Parliament was suspended almost immediately after the latest federal election, and the conflict in Gaza is more divisive and destructive than ever. I thought those issues would surely dominate casual conversation over the holidays this year.
However, I was suprised to find that many people are still trying to decide if Christmas [...]
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