The new washer and dryer are in, the replacement Bose Wave is on the porch and, so far, working. It’s the long weekend, and I intend to enjoy it.
Offshore ‘Drilling’
Computerworld tells of a study that you’ll find here, confirming the impact of offshore outsourcing on American tech jobs.
The survey, conducted by researchers at the New York University Stern School of Business and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, also backs up the long-standing view that IT employees in purely technical jobs — computer programmers and software developers who have little customer interaction — are at the most risk from offshore outsourcing.
At work I’m involved with EMC, the big data storage company, and I can confirm that a lot of their software development is now being done in India. If somebody goes to college in the United States, and completes a degree in computer science, and they want to remain purely technical, they should be able to work in America and get paid well; otherwise, future students will feel hard work isn’t rewarded. On the upside, this is good news for technical workers who want to go into management, or want to work with people as well as computers.
Oh! Bomb! Ah!
I was going to fire up the HDTV projector to watch the Democratic convention finale, but instead I have it streaming over Yahoo. It all feels sort of forced and staged, and the announcers sound as though they’re at the Academy Awards. Let’s just get this done and move on to the contest.
Mad Made Men
This article in the Boston Globe says the New England mob isn’t what it used to be. I always wonder about pronouncements like this one, because they almost invite somebody to prove them wrong. Oh! I know who can bring organized crime back to New England in a big way. The Joker!
Header or Tales
At the moment, this is the header image:
In case you’re wondering, that’s the Music Shed at Tanglewood in Lenox, MA. I’m not sure yet what the next header is going to be. I have a couple of different ones ready, so maybe I should flip a coin. Or maybe not, because one of them is K3!
Guess the Cartoonist
I wonder if this cartoon was inspired by the famous photo of the Times Square kiss on V-J Day? Can you name the cartoonist?
I’m as good as anybody at recognizing the work of somebody I’m familiar with, but looking at this I see no hint whatsoever of his later style. He was a successful, well-known contemporary of Charles Schulz. In fact, for about the first ten years of ‘Peanuts’ he was more successful than Schulz.