Career Advice

Someone told me early in my career to NEVER NEVER under any circumstances tick off your Database Admin or the person in charge of hardware/helping you fix your computer.

I don't have much contact with our DBA, but our regional hardware/tech support guy rocks. In terms of making my life more or less horrible in recent days, he's been the most responsible for getting things done, helping me recover from a massive harddrive failure, and generally survive with respect to installations and access permissions.

I think this is especially true in the computer industry, but regardless of what industry you are in, you should make friends with your helpful techology coworkers! They work really hard to make your life better.

Dear Website owners

For realzies... this is the truth.

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A fun project

I've been helping out with some website stuff over at http://www.newprotestant.com - a new webmagazine. The website's nothing fancy, but they are starting an exciting project right now. They're collecting a new 95 Theses, similar to my beloved Martin Luther's original. :) (I mean, we did name our dog after his dog - Tölpel. Yeah, we're kinda sad.)

At any rate, it's not about Protestant/Catholic... it's about a new generation of Christians crossing denominations and having open conversation about our problems.

Anyway, I'd love for you to look it over and consider contributing. They're launching the magazine in July so they'll need submissions soon so they can start narrowing down and formatting. They're also looking for Christian art (including photography, poetry, fiction, etc) as well as articles. Submission guidelines coming to the site soon. (submissions@newprotestant.com)

And the website's going to undergo some pretty drastic changes in the next few weeks/months, but all suggestions can be directed to webmaster@newprotestant.com.