After over a year of unemployment, and the recent completion of my Data Analytics boot camp, I’ve submitted an increasing number of job applications. I’m also dealing with waiting on EDD to get through their backlog of processing new claims, which is likely especially bad now because all of us who lost their jobs due … More The Job Hunt Process and Lessons in Networking
Whilst I’ve been unemployed during the pandemic, the excess free time has afforded me opportunities to think more deeply about certain issues that impact my life. Especially considering 2020 was an election year, and we saw how social media impacted the 2016 election. Social media has been my primary way of connecting with friends for … More The Social Dilemma, Social Engineering, and Ethics in Social Media
The first time #MeToo was considerably trending, when everyone was talking about it, and it was all over the news media, I was not in a position where I felt like I could publicly discuss my experiences. Since then, I’ve publicly confronted someone who was abusive toward me (offline), had other survivors not believe me … More #MeToo Has Been Trending Again
As I’ve mentioned previously, my novel, Adrift, started as a couple of screenplays in LJ Idol. That was back in season 7, in 2011. The biggest thing I got from it was positive feedback about the idea I had, so I knew I had something I might be able to market. I’d not really had … More Interview with Gary Dreslinski, creator of LJ Idol
As I wrote about in my last entry, part of my trip to Hawaii was spent filming a music video with improv rock duo Oil in the Alley. I’m not sure how many Mega Fans can say they’ve had such an opportunity to work with people they admire so much like I did. I lived … More Oil in the Alley and releasing the Music Video
I’ve previously alluded to but not gone into great detail the fact that I have friends on the Internet. Whilst staying with my first cousin once removed Judy, she mentioned reading an article about how the US is “behind the times” in terms of percentages of friends being on the Internet with whom they’ve never … More Technological World of Friends
Like my husband, I’m a bit sick of having to constantly join different social networking sites, continually repeating myself when creating the ever-new and ever-the-same profile. We met on OkCupid, which is a rather small “social networking” type web site compared to the likes of MySpace, Facebook and even Orkut (which is Google’s contribution to … More Facebook vs. MySpace: my views on Social Networking sites
As I’ve had access to the Internet from home since 1999, I’m no stranger to text-based communication such as online fora, e-mail, mailing lists and blog sites. And being as shy as I am, I have generally preferred it, as it can sometimes be the only way I am able to speak up and express … More Understanding and text-based communication (like the Internet)
I’m sure everyone hates spam and scam e-mails just as much as I do, but how many people actually know what to do with them? One of the things that I love about marrying someone who knows a lot about the Internet and helped write the Spam Code in Australia is that I was introduced … More Spam and scam e-mails
When you’ve been around the Internet for as long as I have, you will have noticed several changes, some for the better, and some for the worse. I’m not saying I’ve been around since the inception of the whole thing – that would be impossible given that I was born in the early 1980s, around … More What happened to the good old days on the Internet?
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