I’ve finally tarted up my resume/CV and sent it out to couple of old contacts today. Let’s hope that one of them will be interested and save me the trouble of a more general job hunting. At least my Green Card application is now fully ‘portable’, meaning my application has been in pending state so long that I no longer ties to my original sponsor/employer. One less obstacle I guess.
Have the lessons been learnt?
With the spread of the BSE widen in the U.S., one question that interests me is whether the U.S. government has learnt from the European experience in the last decade?
Would the USDA continue to deny any risks of infected meat in the food supply (like the U.K. Chief Medical Officer in the 1990)?
Would USDA heeds to the advise of the scientists (unlike the U.K. minister) ?
Would officials of USDA pulls a publicity stunts like the U.K. agriculture minister with his six years old daughter?
More importantly, how long before public realize the magnitude of this discovery and express concerns for their health?
Will there be a boycott of beef products in the supermarket like in Europe? How would this affect the restaurant business, especially steak houses? And what about the cattle industry?
New Kung-Log is coming
Adriaan, creator of Kung-Log, has announced that a new version of Kung-Log, called ‘ecto’, is forthcoming. I’ve been using Kung-Log to blog to TypePad for awhile now and it is a very handy little application. Apparently the new version will no longer be donate-ware but will charge a small fee. I, for one, will be more than happy to pay for Adriaan’s hard work. I would know, as I am also writing a blogging tool 😉
Auto clean up in Mac software
What is with this automatic clean up (move to Trash) process employed by some of the Mac software developers? Take VueScan as an example (there are many others), I’ve just downloaded the latest version which is a piece of great software. When the disk image file is downloaded, an automatic process performs the followings:
- Mount the disk image
- Copy the folders and/or files inside the disk image to the current folder (in my case, the Desktop)
- Dismount the disk image
- Move the original disk image file to Trash
Lost in Colonisation 