Yesterday was autism awareness day, and that means that the discussion of the “puzzle piece” comes up. The puzzle piece is a popular symbol for autism – except it’s not very liked by people who actually have autism. The puzzle piece was first used as a symbol for autism near 50 years ago. An organization …
Why the puzzle piece as a symbol of autism doesn’t make sense Read More »
Disclaimer: I am well aware that people with autism might have different needs, skills sets and so on. If you want to “educate” me on this, then by all means… don’t. I can’t possibly cover all possible angles and shades of blue in this blog post, and neither should you expect me to. Let this …
I know werd isn’t a word. Don’t be such a nerd, okay? Three blog posts in a day? Yup. Heads up, if you are tired of “I’m just going to do the thing” posts, this one also isn’t for you. Here’s the thing. I’m kind of a nerd. There’s no point in trying to dress …
While I was writing the draft for my post about security, another thought crossed my mind. So let’s talk about video games for a second. Very few people know that I used to be a “game journalist” (although it somehow fields I already wrote this a million times). I was a “gaming journalist” before it …
I am going to regret not using this title in a future blog post where I tell companies they need to spend more money, and give half of that money to me, won’t I? Oh well. A long time ago, when I was just starting my IT career, my dad walked up to my desk …
I was doing the administration for my finances today, and one of the entries that annoy me the most to enter aren’t taxes, maintenance costs for my car or any other of those “adult” expensens. Nope, it’s buying domain names. I have had a problem with buying domain names ever since I started playing with …
“What’s a PowerUserGuide.com”? asked the user who doesn’t follow everything I do? What, indeed. This was supposed to be a productive night Today was supposed to be a productive night. I wanted to make some changes to one of my sites. After I swapped out one cookie cutter template for another one, I wanted to …
PowerUserGuide.com’s future. Or “I really, really don’t like WordPress.com” Read More »
Hello everyone, I wanted to take a moment to introduce you to Steven 4.0. If you have no idea that there were three previous versions of me, that’s all right. The number is a rough estimate of how many “big periods” I went through in my life. To roughly summarize things, these are the release …
Friday evening is as good a time as any to migrate your websites. The time had come to move away from SiteGround after being with them for four years. After inventorizing my websites I decided to delete most of them. Most of those website were never updated and some only had only one or two …
People often say that beggars can’t be choosers. Projected on my current job situation, in which I’ve been out of a job for a few months, I suppose that means I should be considering every possible job offer. It’s fair enough to claim that any job is better than no job. However, there are some …
Wanted: No more call center position offers (M/F) Read More »