Katie and I are getting away this weekend to visit with some family and relax on the lake up in Charlevoix. It is about a four hour drive, so a bit of a hike, but should be a fun and relaxing weekend. Unfortuantely, Katie’s last class is winding down and she still has quite a bit of work to do for it, so we’ll be bringing the laptop in order for her to finish up her homework. No Internet access, so I won’t be working while we’re up there, though I’ll likely be taking some photos to bring back with us. I have heard a great deal about this place on the lake (my sister-in-law’s parents own it), so I’m pretty stoked to finally see it.

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I’ve been perusing job posting websites lately while my wife has been looking for a new job and I thought I’d pass along a few tidbits:

• Careerbuilder.com - Good stuff! Probably my favorite.
• Monster.com - 2nd on my list. Great posts, good interface, high traffic.
• Hotjobs.com - Not in my favorites. It is OK and they do have postings, but it doesn’t seem to have as many as the other two and there is an awful lot of “work at home” spam posts.
• Indeed.com and Simplyhired.com - These sites display Google-like results and search multiple job posting websites. I was pretty impressed with them.

There are certainly alot of “crap” job posting websites out there, that is a fact. Are there any that are among your favorites, which I may have missed?

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Looks like Yahoo did an overhaul of Del.icio.us last week and moved the domain to delicious.com. The new version is supposed to be faster and easier to learn, and I’ll have to say that so far, I like what I see. If you haven’t ever used Delicious, it is extremely handy. It is a social bookmarking page, where you can organize your bookmarks through tagging, and pages get ranked through that tagging. The more users who bookmark a site for the tags you are searching, the better they do in the results. I often use it as a search engine.

Delicious was starting to have speed issues under its old architecture and Yahoo has stated that this new back end is far more scalable and the site is running much faster. The new search engine now offers several different ways to search for things. These include the traditional search, tag searching, personal bookmark searching, searching a friend or individual user’s bookmarks, and searching through bookmarks in the user’s social network. Yahoo plans to add even more new features in the future.

If you haven’t tried out delicious, I encourage you to give it a test drive!

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My wife and I own two iPods. A B&W 4th gen and a Color 4th gen. Our B&W stopped working some time ago (I don’t expect it to start working again anytime soon, it makes clicking sounds), but more recently our color stopped working. It shows a sad face and so do I.

I need to mow the lawn today and it can take a few hours to do that. With no iPod it is one of the most boring things I do. I usually listen to audio books and it makes mowing the lawn really not that big a deal. In order to try to make this a more enjoyable experience I decided to try to fix our iPods.

B&W iPod

I found a few different sites with various instructions on how to fix your broken iPod. I opened my first iPod up and tried the “folded paper method”. With the clicking sounds, it isn’t terribly surprising that it didn’t work. I might buy a new hard drive for it since they only run around $40.

Color iPod

Now that I “tested” opening an iPod on my older one, it was time to see what I could do about the newer one. The color iPod was a little tougher to open, but open it I did. I was going to try the “folded card” method, but noticed that the hard drive cable appeared as though it was not plugged in all the way on one side. I firmly pressed the pins back in, closed up the iPod, and I’m back in business! The iPod is working again!

Now, off to mow the lawn and hit up one of my favorite audio books.

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