Posts by Mike Taber

This week was a pretty good week. It was a bit hectic, some good things happened, some bad things happened, but overall it was a good week. I’ve got my first non-work related speaking engagement tentatively scheduled. I have a new employee starting on Monday. I have a consultant coming in for a week on…

Curse of the Expanding Lab My lab here at Moon River Software has started getting large enough that I needed to invest in some KVM switches. A small 4 port KVM wasn’t going to cut it, so I needed at least 8, possibly more. In addition, I needed to interface with both USB and PS2…

I know I’ve been a little bit quiet lately, but there’s a flurry of activity going on in the background here. I have a new employee starting in about 2 weeks, and I’m gearing up to wreak havoc on the business world this coming year. It’s going to take a lot of planning and solid…

I spoke with my CPA the other day and he informed me of roughly how much I would owe at the end of March when my business taxes are due. I almost had a coronary. The first few years of my professional career, I made less than I’m going to be paying in taxes. If…

So my ‘friend’ the recruiter called back again today. He had another sales guy call a few days ago and I told him that I wasn’t interested and didn’t expect to hear from him again. Lo and behold, this morning he called me again. I told him that he had wasted plenty of my time…

It’s pretty sad how incredibly pushy recruiters are these days. Not that I can really speak to how they were several years ago. Since posting the listing for a job opening here at Moon River Software about three weeks ago, I’ve gotten a number of calls from various recruiters. It has picked up in the…

Obviously, this all happened last week, but I thought I’d relate it anyway. My third day in Paris was non-stop all day. I got up early, went to the Arch de la Defense and worked most of the day. Went to the client in the afternoon, and then went to dinner and on a driving…

I’m waiting for someone who actually speaks French to tell me if it’s ‘Viva le France’, or ‘Vive le France’, or something else. I don’t speak French at all, so you’ll have to forgive me. Today, on the way home, I braved the Arc de Triomphe as two others suggested. Not intentionally mind you, the…

I hope this post makes sense to someone, but if not, you’re going to have to forgive me. I woke up at 7am Sunday EST, hopped on a plane around 5:40pm EST, arrived in Paris at 6:00am (their time) and then went to work. I’m exhausted. I haven’t gone this many hours without sleep in…