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Toronto, 2005.03.11

I had an insight today into how communications styles have changed in the business world in the past decade. While throwing out a bunch of crap from various boxes in the storage locker, I found all of the rejection correspondence from my mid-1994 job search.

What struck me was that in the absence of the Internet, everyon would actually pay to mail a (signed) letter to every candidate that applied, even if it was just to tell the candidate that the job was already filled. I miss that! Today, even letters that you mail in to employers are ignored, let alone resume/cover letters that that you submit by email.

rand()m quote

You have to choose between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the Government. And, with due respect for these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the Capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold.

—George Bernard Shaw