At The Top

Posted on April 27th, 2007 by gail helen.
Categories: Uncategorized.

Does everything change at the top?  If you’re a C-Anything-O, HotJobs isn’t going to be the smorgesborge of perfect positions it’s supposed to be for us mere mortals.  Apparently, upper management positions are most often filled through an executive search service like A.E. Feldman. Since 1967, they have maintained a high standard of excellence in recruiting candidates for placement in their clients’ companies, “to the benefit of both sides of the employment equation.” Their practice areas “include financial and risk management services, legal and legal support services, communications and technology, human resources consulting, and luxury products” positions on a national scale, so if you excel in management of these fields or are looking for someone who does, you may want to give A.E. Feldman a call.

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Grey’s Anatomy

Posted on April 27th, 2007 by gail helen.
Categories: Personal, Omnia Vanitas, Random.

Yes, it is my Thursday crack. But to be honest, I hate that show. Meredith Grey and Derek Shepherd, are possibly the most vacuous, self-obsessed characters on which I have ever had the displeasure of wasting an hour. They are just bad people, you know? And this is coming from me! The two characters I liked, even admired, were George and Izzie, but now they’ve gone all basket-casey. I need some goodness, some genuine, non-torturous love from this show. Shouldn’t the drama be coming mostly from the fact that these young, inexperienced people have others’ lives in their hands on a daily basis? That’s why Alex is now my favorite character. At least he’s growing as a human being in some minor way, instead of stunting and rotting morally and intellectually. But Christina, she rocks. Always has, always will. :)

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Dr. Good Love, Momma Style

Posted on April 27th, 2007 by gail helen.
Categories: Personal, Omnia Vanitas.

As all my childhood friends know, I was a pretty sickly kid. Much of it was chalked off to the suffering of any person with allergies forced to cohabitate with 11 cats, a smoking mom, and airborne contaminants, in the plain states of pollen dominance. I was never really treated to a doctor’s appointment (phys kids rarely see “real” doctors as mom or pop can simply scribble a script based on their best guess of the symptoms you relate when they response to your page), but I always figured there wasn’t anything they could tell me in an office that I couldn’t figure out myself in the library (just imagine if we’d had WebMD back then!). But my sister isn’t following the family tradition in that regard. Every time my nephew gets sick, he sees a professional pediatrician. Thanks to her diligence, it looks like we will finally have an answer to why we’re all a bunch of Outbreak monkeys in this family. Little Fra Baby may have a hereditary immune disorder, which if shared by the rest of our family would explain the extreme allergies, psoriasis, early onset arthritis, etc. Of course, there’s nothing we can do about it, but I always like to know the why’s, even if there’s no “what now” . . .

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Are You On The List?

Posted on April 27th, 2007 by gail helen.
Categories: Omnia Vanitas, Sponsored Posts, Random.

I signed up for eFax years ago and then promptly forgot about it, until I began receiving spam faxes in my email. Has anyone else had this experience? Today I read a web release about a company called Martin Worldwide, one of the leaders in the direct marketing industry, who have built a significant “reputation by offering innovative mailing list products to its clients.” They are one of the largest and most successful mailing list providers in the nation, offering customized mailing lists, telemarketing lists and fax lists to small business and Fortune 1000 clients. I don’t know about you, but I find their product, ResponseCom™, both a little scary and yet also attractive. It is described as “a potent, proprietary blend of U.S. Response and U.S Consumer databases, resulting in a multi-dimensional database that offers extreme versatility and over 100 demographic and psychographic selects. The special synthesis of compiled and response data has created an unparalleled, powerful database that accurately identifies prospects with the most active, responsive, and impulsive buying history.” Two words stand out to me — “psychographic” and “impulsive.” I think they must know exactly who I am! And here I thought all the sales letters I receive were based mostly on my (ah hem) prestigious zip code . . .

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.wpd files

Posted on April 27th, 2007 by gail helen.
Categories: Education, Personal, Omnia Vanitas, Technology.

One of the major “grrrs” in my life is the lack of a WordPerfect reader for OSX. Some major papers I wrote which I would love to access, along with my early college jounals and poems, are trapped in .wpd files I can’t open. For years, I’ve carried them around, hoping against hope that I would come in contact with some program or person that could “abracadabra” them back into my hands, but with no success. I recently heard that OpenOffice can handle these documents, and so I downloaded it again in spite of a pretty disappointing experience in its earlier versions. Unfortunately, I need to update a component on machine in order to finish installing the program, but I can’t find my setup disks at the moment. So, as I said, “grrr.”

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