Thoughts

Why the puzzle piece as a symbol of autism doesn’t make sense

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 »

A guide to employing autistic employees

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 …

A guide to employing autistic employees Read More »

Stupid idea distribution analysis

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 …

Stupid idea distribution analysis Read More »

PowerUserGuide.com’s future. Or “I really, really don’t like WordPress.com”

“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 »

Steven 4.0

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 …

Steven 4.0 Read More »

Wanted: No more call center position offers (M/F)

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 »

%d bloggers like this: