Bytemarks

Going to the unemployment office can be an anxiety filled experience. You’ve lost your job, your self esteem is in free fall and now you have to publicly go file for unemployment benefits. It’s a humbling experience and you want to get it over with as quickly as possible. Here is some advice, don’t do [...]

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This is a photo I took almost 3 years ago as I started my new job at HMSA. On Jan. 28, 2011 this was the image I saw as I left the building drawing to a close a period in my corporate career that I can confidently say was the best experience I have ever [...]

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We recently had Dean Sadamune and Jim Sink from Avatar-Reality on Bytemarks Cafe. Unfortunately the radio show does not lend itself well to images. The images, as you can see amplify the story about Blue Mars, the virtual reality platform being build by Avatar-Reality. I got a chance to spend some time in the AR [...]

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Although I was thankful for getting let go from Hawaiian Tel in January 2008, it still pains me to see what has happen to this company. Today it was announced in both the Advertiser and Star Bulletin that Hawaiian Tel files for bankruptcy protection. I’ve been a telcom jock since returning to Hawaii in the [...]

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Now that I work in an good size IT department, articles like these from TechRepublic catch my attention. I’ve been a longtime fan of Google and find myself using them more and more in my personal and small business computing. My Firefox home page is set to iGoogle, I am always on Gmail and get [...]

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That is probably the most frequently asked question I get these days. Simply put I am a technical liaison between the HMSA business units and the IS dept. Cool huh. Well, the devil is in the details and believe me there are a lot of details but for the most part that is what I [...]

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It’s official, I got my badge. This is the home of my new job and where I will be spending the better part of the day. Our first day was spent in new employee orientation but I get the feeling that orientation is going to take a lot longer than one day. Where telecom has [...]

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It’s been about 2 months since getting let go from Hawaiian Telcom and having those two months to clear my mind has been invaluable. I look back at the day I walked out of that HT exit door and see it as the day I walked into a great new life! I got to experience [...]

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