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$ tar cvfz ~/Desktop/make_doug_even_happier.tgz ./trunk/

I'm copying trunk to my other box on a stick because I can't be bothered to figure out how to make Subversion work over NedSpace's WiFi.

I'll be stepping across the street to Peet's Coffee And Tea where I shall make Doug even happier than he previously was.

Whenever I google for the solution to some problem that I face I just about always turn up my younger self asking that exact same question on a list or on Stackoverflow.

Quite commonly _nobody_ has answered my question, so that younger me had to figure it out for himself. Sometimes I'm happy to find that my younger self posted the solution to the problem he faced then and I face now, but not always. Sometimes I'm left to solve my problem - without anyone else's help - a second time.

I'm using Tor Browser to listen to YouTube.

Not "watch": "listen".

This because after I started The Seekers' 25-Year Reunion Concert, I minimized Tor Browser then came her to SN with Chrome.

Have A Nice Day! :-D

• Where We Tweet

No wonder they still can't make a profit.

The Mind Simply Reels

I will credit Twitter for this:

By listing every last one of their coding shops at Soggy Jobs, Twitter enabled me to identify Jakarta, Indonesia as a tech hub.

Next Up: Find some locally-owned Jakarta software or hardware firms.

• Find a Computer Industry Job in Palestine
  • Find a Computer Industry Job in Ramallah, Palestine

So as to ensure that both sides of this decades-old conflict put a price on my head, I have - as-yet uninitialized - West Bank directories for both of Israel and Palestine.

I've devoted two solid years to trying to figure out how to list technology companies in disputed territories.

For me to list Kashmir as a territory in Pakistan is quite a serious criminal offense in India. I don't have any Kashmiri listings yet so I don't know how it will go, but quite likely I will have separate "Find a Computer Industry Job in Kashmir" for both of those sovereign nations.

The solution I eventually settled on this very night is that I will locate each company in the political location where the majority of its own employees regard themselves as citizens of.

That's quite simple for the Gaza Strip but not so simple for the West Bank: SodaFizz is located in the West Bank, and has more or less equal numbers of Israelis and Palestinians working side-by-side in peace and harmony.

I also replaced my "Buy Me A Coffee" Call To Action with:

Please Tell Us Where Your Company Is Located!

Because Soggy Jobs is a geographical index, we can't list you unless your website tells us what city your office is in. If you have more than one location, please list all of them on your site.

It usually works well for me to find all your locations on your Jobs or Careers page - but not always: it's quite common for technology firms to hire through their own websites without telling their applicants where they'll be working!

THX!
-- Mike

I Am Absolutely Serious: I've found lots of companies that I cannot list because they provide potential applicants with no way of determining which continent they'd be working on, let alone which timezone. Help Me.

I found absolutely none.

While Microsoft couldn't care less about Bing Image Search turning up adult men sodomizing their six year old daughters, Google is quite diligent about removing kiddiepr0n from it index. Even so it misses some, that is not hard at all for me to locate.

• Giving the Finger to Vladimir Putin: Child Pornography on the Internet

"The darkest parts of Hell are reserved for
those who preserved their neutrality
during times of moral crisis."
- Durante degli Alighieri - "Dante"

Jonathan Swift
mdcrawford@gmail.com

Monday, July 6, 2015

Do you take pride in your work?

I do; quite commonly my clients hate me for it. If you ask me for what you want, I will give you what you need.

Is There a Cause for Which You Would Give Your Life?

I'm working on that.

It is said that "Courage is not the absence of fear; courage is to act despite the presence of fear". I was once that way but now I am not courageous, but fearless. This leads me to do things that others regard as... not so much ill-advised, but damnfool ignorant if not actually batshit insane.

The man who molested me when I was a little boy collected child pornography.

In my plain sight he molested two others.

The only child pornography that he created - that I am aware of - I posed for. To the very best of my knowledge he did not sell it; many child pornographers give it away freely.

I am not real sure I will ever figure out how many psychiatric hospitals I have been in. If I tried I could count my suicide attempts but I would have to puzzle over them for a little while.

I hold the vast majority of law enforcement officers in the highest esteem. They work hard to do right by us all; more than once a cop or a deputy has saved my life.

But based on actual results I have come to regard some law enforcement officers, as well as at least some of the national intelligence agents, not just of the US but most countries, as total slackers.

Were that not the case, the Microsoft Bing Image Search cache would not be so chock full of kiddieporn. That so many sexually explicit photographs of children are hosted on Microsoft's own servers is evidenced by the availability of the images on Bing despite that their original servers are long-gone.

Quite clearly someone is taking out the child pornography servers. I remain puzzled that the kiddieporn is still available from Microsoft. It could not possibly be that Microsoft doesn't know about it, as the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, the International Telecommunication Union's Child Online Protection initiative, INTERPOL and the like notify Microsoft's friendly competitors when abusive imagery is hosted by such sites as Google's Blogspot

Quite commonly images served by Bing come from Blogspot, but Bing continues to display the image in search results after Google removes them.

It is quite helpful to list _all_ the locations for a few multinationals. It's even more helpful for each of those multinationals to be headquartered in a different country.

Once I've got all their locations listed, I will then put some effort into finding local tech companies. That is, once I've discovered that Sophia Antipolis is a tech hub it is straightforward to find lots of other firms that have shops there.

Now there's a page for the European Union. I do not yet list all of the EU countries, rather I currently list only those countries in which I have found at least one tech company.

However I intend to devote some work towards finding at least one such company in every EU member state. This so as to avoid insulting anyone's national pride.

I also have a page that lists African countries. So far I only list two different companies but I'll list a whole lot more by this time tomorrow.

The Wall Street Journal just published "The 25 Top Tech Firms To Pay Attention To". I've listed about 17 of them so far. When I'm done with 2018's Top 25 list, I'll move on to 2017's, 2016's and so on

About a third of the WSJ's Top 25 have more than one location. So far I've listed one multinational but likely there are more.

BEHOLD:

Search Google for Emmanuel Olusoji Ishola.

My intended move-out has been delayed somewhat by all the hookers and blow I've been availing myself of as a result of having received my check for my completion of the Fresco Logic FL2000 USB-VGA Adapter macOS function driver.

While my driver shipped to Fresco's OEM customers about a month ago, I don't think it's available to end-users yet. Once it is, I shall ensure that you sorry lot are the very _first_ to know.

$ echo "Just _once_ in _every_ man's life he just _has_ to bust loose and '$ sudo rm -rf *'."
Just _once_ in _every_ man's life he just _has_ to bust loose and '$ sudo rm -rf *'.
$ sudo rm -rf *
Password:
$

Some guy was waxing fundamentalist with a megaphone as he carried a sign upon which he delivered The Christ's once-thought-lost lessons as for example "Gays Deserve AIDS".

Inspired by the bagpiper who got right in this gent's face when he was so very filled with G-d's love that he set out to save a few souls at Portland's Starlight Parade - held after dark with lit up floats, musicians and dancers - I myself walked right up to a perfectly legal and nonviolent distance then with the volume turned all the way up to eleven belted out such timeless hits as The Star Spangled Banner, You Are My Sunshine and Somewhere Over The Rainbow as my quarry struggled in vain to hand out religious tracts at the TriMet Pioneer Courthouse Square MAX Yellow Line Station.

But to my quite cheerful dismay I ultimately conceded he was a better man than I and so demonstrated my good sportsmanship by conceding his victory then suggesting he google "Michael David Crawford Baritone".

What people are saying about Michael David Crawford, Baritone:

"I Love You."

This from a lady who shot an iPhone video of me following Jesus Freak around all over Creation. (I didn't think to request she post it to YouTube.)

When again I take up my tip jar I'll come equipped with URL-bearing handbills that I'll mass produce at NedSpace. We all have the freedom to print a "reasonable" number of pages on a two-sided laser printer as well as the free use of my very favorite musical instrument:

A guillotine paper cutter. I own this particular one that I also use for the case inserts for my instrumental piano EP Geometric Visions: The Rough Draft. I shall soon take up handing them out Free As In Freedom when I sing on the street as well as at Open Mics.

Civilly And Disobediently,

Michael David Crawford, Baritone

PS: Coming Fall 2018: Michael David Crawford LIVE! On Broadway.

(...and Morrison in Downtown Portland, Oregon.)