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Given that lately I seem to feel an urge to blog about work and career, I’ve gone ahead and created a separate blog to mace it easy for those interested in this particular topic to follow those posts.

The new blog is called On jobs, work and careers (very original title, isn’t it?), and is hosted right on this site, at http://anaulin.org/on_jobs_work_and_careers/. If you are interested in those topics, go subscribe!

[Originally posted on what used to be a separate blog 'On jobs, work and careers' and later was merged into this blog.]

Hello there.

You might be wondering what the heck is this blog about. Well, the title says it all: it is about jobs, work and careers. Mostly in a computer-y context, but not necessarily.

Now that you know what this blog is about, you might be wondering who am I to write about these topics. Well, the answer is quite simple: I am just a professional in the IT industry with a particular interest in these topics. In my current job I am often asked to review resumes and interview candidates, so I need a place to rant about that, too. I don’t claim to be an expert on the topic; I just have some thoughts I’d like to share.

In the past I wrote some articles about work and careers on my personal blog.

David, aka Mikus, has written a note on the predominance of Windows and IE among the platforms and browsers used by the readers of his blog (according to his server stats). Apparently only 32% of David’s readers use Firefox/Mozilla, and just 3% of them use Linux.

Here are the statistics for the traffic on anaulin.org:

So 44.17% of my readers use a browser that identifies itself as Firefox/Mozilla/Netscape (41.12%, 2.54% and 0.51%, respectively). And 10.15% use Linux. Surprising; I expected that my Mom’s use of Windows+IE would seriously skew the statistics.

I don’t know if my readership sample is more representative than David’s but, clearly, our blogs are visited by very different types of computer users. We could probably draw some interesting conclusions about the content in a blog just by looking at the platform and browser statistic for that site. For example, I would expect The Daily WTF to have an even heavier skew towards the Linux+Firefox crowd than my blog.

I wonder what are the stats for Slashdot. I bet these days it is mostly Windows+IE users visiting them…

I just changed the theme for a modified version of White As Milk. I started working on this new look a while ago, but then lack of time (or, someone could say, inability to focus on thing at a time) made me abandon it. We’ll see if this time around I can take it to some state that I am satisfied with.

Let me know what you think. More stuff on the sidebar? Less stuff? One of my ideas was to leave only one post on the front page, and then just list the previous posts below. Is that a good idea? Don’t know. Will continue thinking.

And yes, I will write about at least on of the gazillion things on my list soon. I promise.

Tired of the problems I was having with my previous hosting company, I have moved this site to another provider. I will try to take the opportunity to do some remodelling and cleaning up. For you, gentle reader, this means risk of falling bits during the next few days. Wear your helmet! I apologize for the inconvenience.