I was searching around yesterday for a Mac Book Pro, and made the ever-so tempting mistake of clicking on the following Google Ads Result, “86% off a Mac Book Pro?” — I am not stupid — I know that when things are too good to be true, they are not true — but somehow [...]
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Over the last 5 years since I began working full-time, I have developed a strong interest in investing in the stock market. I started investing in mutual funds, and gradually started investing in individual stocks. I even helped to form a (now defunct) Investment Club in order to learn more about investing in [...]
I’m not going to lie. This economy is dead scary. I’m sure that for most of you, the company water cooler buzz these days is not about who is getting promoted, but is about what percentage of your company is getting layed off. When TechCrunch has a layoff counter showing over 100k lost jobs, and [...]
The bloggers over at Newly Corporate are asking “What 1 or 2 CORE traits get you noticed at work or help you succeed in your day-to-day operations” Here is the blog post
I’ve actually been thinking about this a lot lately. Here is my response. I think these two traits are invaluable in the workplace:
Curiosity is [...]
Every day, a software project dies. Some die a slow, painful, expensive, death. Others die a quick, not painless, and relatively embarrassing death . As Software Engineers, we never want our own projects to die. As individual contributors the livelihood of our projects are often times outside the realm of our control. At [...]
When I first got my iPhone, I was constantly on the App store trying to find the new awesome apps. Now that it has been a few months for me, the excitement has died down, and I visit the App store less frequently. I’m sure i’ve missed the boat on a few big ones, so [...]
The other day, I finally cracked and signed up for Twitter (@mstockton). I only have a few friends who use the service, and only a small subset of those friends use it actively. Before signup up, I was skeptical of the value of the service – does anyone really care about what I am [...]
Wow, setting up Wordpress was easier than I thought it would be! This post is the first step in one (among many) of my new years resolutions. I promised myself that 2009 would be the year where I channel my creative energy and passion about technology to do something productive and interesting. I often find [...]