On Education and Employability

Yeah, i know, “What does a guy who hasnt even graduated yet and is in a placement job have to say about education and employability?”, and usually i would agree with the sentiment. But the times they are a-changing. The world, especially for current or incumbant students, is very uncertain. I was lucky, when i was in first year i already had the connections to secure a job close to my Uni. ...

March 3, 2009 · Andrew Bolster

New Productivity Mantra

Check Email / Twitter / Facebook / et-al for 10 minutes every 3 hours (10/1/4) Focus on 1-3 activites / fixes / waypoint actions a day Keep a Log of those actions Obviously this only applies to my working life :D Original

March 1, 2009 · Andrew Bolster

Links

As Other Folks have been going in a GTD fashion, I’ll be throwing useful websites and links into this post so my sievelike menory can cope with the multitude of things that come to my attention. LectureFox Free Online Lecture Directory MyBook Hacking Easy Peasy List Of Tutorials For Screwing with the WD My Book WE II 13 Of the Best Linux Tutorials and OpenCourseWare on the Web Best Passwordless SSH authentication tutorial I’ve seen (complex but simple) Google Courses Looks pretty good SSH quick reference The Academy The Videos look quite good Euler ...

October 6, 2008 · Andrew Bolster

Primers Coming Up

Thru my work I’m thrown into alot of technologies that i dont nearly know enough about and as with alot of tech related things, the education scene is basic basic basic..GURU with little or no gradiation, so what I’m going to do is post what i learn when i learn it and where i learn it from and hopefully it’ll be useful for someone else, and I’ll also take the opportunity to rehash stuff I’ve already done. ...

September 24, 2008 · Andrew Bolster