Michael R. Barrick's blog

Upper class: you have other people clean your toilets.

Middle class: you clean your own toilet.

Lower class: you clean other people's toilets.

Oringinal post: http://mbarrick.livejournal.com/887786.html

Oringinal post: http://mbarrick.livejournal.com/887399.html

I'm not certain that this is a Vancouver peculiarity or is this a more widespread problem, but I would really like to know what happened to paid lunches and actual eight-hour days. The cliché standard working hours are, of course, 9-to-5, including lunch and coffee-breaks. Yet try and find a 9-to-5 job in Vancouver. What you will find is 8-to-5 more often than not, and despite the span of nine hours this is called "an eight hour day" by "virtue" of an unpaid, one-hour lunch crammed in there somewhere.

20 minutes behind the curve and getting it wrong all the way...

I received this white-paper abstract on one of my tech mailing lists this morning:

Fun. I usually don't get to see what happens to my stock pictures from iStock, but as random chance would have it evilyn13 pointed out this flyer for the Merc in :-)

Oringinal post: http://mbarrick.livejournal.com/886048.html

http://www.livejournal.com/pay/claim.bml

If you have a paid account the above link will extend your account by three days in compensation for all the outages lately.

Oringinal post: http://mbarrick.livejournal.com/886001.html