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By adamg - 10/31/08 - 8:01 am

Timothy Haroutunian reports he was laid off from his job at a Web startup yesterday:

By adamg - 9/30/08 - 10:56 am

Alicia, a librarian, reports why she made a point this morning of putting the Herald back cover face up on the shelf in serials.

By adamg - 9/30/08 - 10:45 am

Kitty, a natural brunette gone blonde to research a book, reports she makes more in tips waitressing as a blonde - but that the money comes with a price.

By adamg - 9/29/08 - 3:51 pm

Philip Greenspun reports that for the first time in at least 10 years, the HVAC guys who maintain his apartment's air conditioning were able to schedule an appointment for the very next day, rather than the three-week wait they used to insist on:

... People aren't installing new systems and are deferring maintenance. ...

By adamg - 9/26/08 - 8:47 am

Dr. T recounts the night she failed a friend by not speaking up:

By adamg - 9/25/08 - 8:44 pm

CC Chapman shows off his photo in Rolling Stone.

By adamg - 9/9/08 - 12:38 pm

The Boston Business Journal reports the Boston area gained 18,900 jobs between July, 2007 and July, 2008 - a gain of 0.8 percent. Nationally, employment figures dropped during that period. Health care and education were responsible for more than half those new positions.

By stevegarfield - 9/7/08 - 10:35 pm

Boston Media Makers September 7, 2008
Boston Media Makers September 7, 2008 by stevegarfield, on Flickr CC BY-NC-SA

Boton Media Makers met at Doyle's Cafe in Jamaica Plain to talk about new media. They meet on the first Sunday of every month at 10:00. Meetings are open to all.

Go to Boston Media Makers for more info.

By adamg - 8/11/08 - 7:55 pm

Sarah reports her office park has a busybody who's made it her job to enforce the designated parking spaces. And she reports on how she got the woman back today. It's the little things in life that count.

By adamg - 8/8/08 - 8:19 am

Painter Girl reports there is no easy way to paint a decorative ceiling:

... I will say, on the days that I know I will be doing ceiling work, I also know I will be able to do very little when I get home from work. I am totally beat. I do have a neck brace that I sometimes wear when stenciling on a ceiling. When plastering, I feel I am working at a comfortable angle and moving quickly, so usually don't need the brace, but when stenciling, it's closer, tighter work, and I feel my neck stiffening up almost immediately. ... I know some decorative painters who build in the price of a massage with every ceiling job. ...

By adamg - 8/7/08 - 11:37 am

After her three-hole punch goes missing, again ("It's not uncommon for one of these guys to take my three hole punch back to their desk where they ALREADY HAVE ONE because theirs is full and they don't feel like emptying it. Seriously."), Sarah and a co-worker come up with the perfect protection.

By adamg - 8/3/08 - 2:57 pm

Communications Workers of America say enough progress has been made in contract talks to keep working, Rand Wilson reports.

By adamg - 7/31/08 - 11:07 pm
Marchers

Greg MacKay photographed Verizon workers in Post Office Square as they got ready for a rally this evening in front of Verizon's New England headquarters. At issue: Their contract, which expires this weekend.

By adamg - 7/28/08 - 4:35 pm

Bijan Sabet is impressed by a new search engine called Cuil for a couple of reasons. One is its technology (although David at Blue Mass. Group is completely non-impressed). But the other is the way the new site came about: It was built by some former Google engineers - and they could do that because they live in California, where non-compete agreements in contracts are against the law, unlike in Massachusetts:

By adamg - 7/25/08 - 5:21 pm

Two headlines from today:

Boston Business Journal: Mass. unemployment rises, defying trend.
Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce: State Adds 2,900 Jobs in June.

By adamg - 7/24/08 - 8:46 am

Kirsten is informed that's what she is; in turn, she critiques the film professor's performance in telling her that.

By adamg - 7/21/08 - 6:09 pm

Man, the weather's got everybody cranky.

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