All IT job interviews carry a product-specific, technical component – and rightly so. But if you are an employer, assessing a candidate solely on the grounds of specialised expertise cannot always be fair. On the other hand, relying heavily on character and cultural fit is also potentially risky because that does not necessarily gauge the [...]
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US scientists defend Darwin from attacks on evolution “While the rest of the world feted the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth, US scientists were forced to defend the theory of evolution from a skeptical public and a concerted attack campaign… Just 40 percent of Americans say they believe in the theory of evolution, according [...]
TVNZ reports: Hundreds of Koreans who hope to become New Zealand citizens have been caught up in a messy dispute involving police and Korean government officials. Court appointed liquidators called police to remove Wasan International’s owner, Edward Kang, and to shut down the company’s Auckland offices. Kang has been an immigration consultant for almost 20 [...]
Singapore Prescribes Shorter Showers, Less Meat to Fight Slump – “Singapore is asking its citizens, the world’s third-wealthiest adjusted for purchasing power, to be prudent as analysts predict the worst economic slump in the nation’s 43-year history. In speeches, pamphlets and ads, the government is advising people to switch to cheaper frozen meats, take shorter [...]
Since the revelation of the biggest accounting scandal in history that involves a global IT outsourcing service provider, I have been trying to read up on it simply because the news and the implications have a lot to do with my own field of profession. And I must say I have been puzzled by a [...]
In the spirit of catching up with “technology”: Windows 7: The next shrink-wrapped version of the Windows operating system currently in early beta, available to tech communities with high expectations Windows Vista: The current shrink-wrapped version of the Windows operating system, no longer in active marketing Windows Azure: Another next version of the Windows operating [...]
It’s reassuring to know that I wasn’t the only one talking clouds. Yesterday, The Economist published a special report on cloud computing. Also yesterday, Xero, the accounting business I cited as one of the prominent examples of cloud computing, received much media attention to become even more prominent. As an overview, here are the titles [...]
There was an interesting post about cloud computing on one of the blogs I follow, and it lead me to the source article by The Guardian, which portrayed strongly opinionated statements by Richard Stallman, the guru of free software: The concept of using web-based programs like Google’s Gmail is “worse than stupidity”, according to a [...]
Every corporation whose principal business objective is to rule the world has released or is in the process of developing their own Web browser software. Google is the latest to join the bandwagon. Yesterday, Google announced their own Web browser called Chrome. I am watching the developments with keen interest because it’s essentially a new [...]
Last night, I upgraded my blog from WordPress version 2.5.1 to 2.6. After learning that my hosting provider won’t do upgrades on individual blogs, I decided to do it myself. Aside from the fact that WordPress had persistently been nagging me about the newest version released about a month ago, I wanted to take charge [...]