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How is this Done?

For decades, I have been curious about the technology I encounter daily. 

This dates back to at least 2005. My curiosity led me to receive the RoboHelp MVP award for answering questions in the Adobe forums. I point to the fact that I would seek out WinHelp (.hlp) files. If I saw something I wanted to implement into my WinHelp files at work, I would download the WinHelp (.hlp) file - many times to my PC at home at my leisure (off-work) and then decompile the .hlp file in order to figure out how the original technical writer implemented the cool thing I wanted to implement in my WinHelp files at work. At the time, I was working with a master.cnt layout of connecting 100+ WinHelp files seamlessly into what looked like a single WinHelp file. It was truly awesome. 

So that's the background for why I was looking at this email I received this morning. I spent a couple of minutes drawing lines from the email preview on the left to the corresponding text on the right. The question is: where is the text in green on the right side? My best guess is that there's text in the HTML code, somewhere, that shows that text in the green box on the left, but not on the right. Maybe? I do not know...

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Love It but Hate It

I have many regrets in my life and one of them is to not attend the Armoured Saint / W.A.S.P. / Metallica concert on 2-13-1985. I was reminded of this concert when I stumbled upon this page that lists W.A.S.P. Tour Dates in 1985. I also enjoyed looking at all the tour dates for various bands here, but I do have a gripe about it. When you click a link, it opens a new tab in Firefox with no navigation link to take you to the previous page. I wish the design was such that a new tab is not opened by clicking a link.

Content References are REALLY Awesome

I was browsing the RoboHelp forums and saw this post about "Conrefs" which can be expanded to content references. The potential for using this

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Updated a Previous Post

Unintentionally, I found myself diving into this post a bit deeper...

Two of these Things are Not Like the Others - Two of these Things Do NOT Have Correct Code

I received this email today and noticed how the first two sections are centered while the second two sections are not. I chalk this up to not reviewing the email prior to sending it. As a technical writer, I'm constantly trying to make sure I don't have typos or errors in the documentation I create and then distribute. I have this quote taped to the outside of my cubicle at work: 

I do my best proofreading after I click Send. 

This email is an example of why that saying exists.

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Frustrated but Inaction Persists

I am growing increasingly disgusted with blogger.com. A couple of months ago, there was a 'refresh' of the UI and I'm not a fan. One small detail here or one small detail there wouldn't bother me, but my experience is not as minimal as one or two small details being irksome. Instead, it feels like when I compose a post, there is some new small detail that is irksome. For example, I have embedded hundreds of videos from YouTube.com on this blog. When I have added the HTML code for the video to be embedded, the way it used to work is I would see the video preview when viewing the page in the "WYSIWYG" (What You See Is What Yo
u Get) view. However, now with the new UI 'refresh' on Blogger, I see the following:

A second small detail that irks me is that it used to be that there was a button in the editing ribbon to toggle between "WYSIWYG" view and "HTML" view. With the new UI 'refresh' on Blogger, those buttons have been replaced with this drop-down menu:

Is it a big deal? To me, yes, it is. I have no "formal" training in HTML so every morsel of information I have about coding HTML is from working on Blogger, where I can either toggle from WYSIWYG view to HTML view, or working in Dreamweaver, where I can view both the "Design" of the page and the "Code" at the same time. I rely upon toggling or viewing between the two views to ensure I have not made a mistake in my HTML code.

I was only going to mention two small details I find irksome, but when I added the above picture, I realized another small detail that I don't like in the UI 'refresh' which is the way that pictures are added to a post. It used to be that if you selected the "Image" icon in the editor toolbar, a window would pop up where you could choose the source of the picture you wanted to add. If you wanted to change the source of the picture, there was a tab you could click to instantly change the source. Now, you get a menu and choose your source and, based upon your choice, the Add images window displays, which (now) has no way to change the source! 

In conclusion, I have looked at what it would take to migrate from Blogger to an alternative, but I don't have any plans to migrate.

484 Genres in MusicBrainz

From https://musicbrainz.org/genres, except I changed the ul tags to ol tags because I wanted to have a count because UL = unordered list (bullets) while OL = ordered list (numbers).

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The links below are broken...

Genre List

These are all the genres currently available for use in MusicBrainz.
To associate a genre with an entity, tag the entity with the genre name.

1. acid house
2. acid jazz
3. acid rock
4. acid techno
5. acoustic blues
6. acoustic rock
7. afoxê
8. afrobeat
9. alternative country
10. alternative dance
11. alternative folk
12. alternative hip hop
13. alternative metal
14. alternative pop
15. alternative punk
16. alternative rock
17. ambient
18. ambient dub
19. ambient house
20. ambient techno
21. americana
22. anarcho-punk
23. aor
24. arena rock
25. art pop
26. art rock
27. atmospheric black metal
28. audiobook
29. avant-garde
30. avant-garde jazz
31. avant-garde metal
32. avant-garde pop
33. avant-prog
34. bachata
35. ballad
36. barbershop
37. baroque
38. bebop
39. bhangra
40. big band
41. big beat
42. black metal
43. blackened death metal
44. blackgaze
45. blue-eyed soul
46. bluegrass
47. blues
48. blues rock
49. bolero
50. bolero son
51. bongo flava
52. boogie rock
53. boogie-woogie
54. boom bap
55. bossa nova
56. bounce
57. breakbeat
58. breakbeat hardcore
59. breakcore
60. breaks
61. britpop
62. broken beat
63. brutal death metal
64. bubblegum pop
65. cajun
66. calypso
67. candombe
68. canterbury scene
69. cantopop
70. celtic
71. celtic punk
72. chamber pop
73. champeta
74. changüí
75. chanson
76. chicago blues
77. chillout
78. chiptune
79. christian rock
80. christmas music
81. chutney
82. city pop
83. classic blues
84. classic country
85. classic jazz
86. classic rock
87. classical
88. classical crossover
89. club
90. comedy
91. comedy rock
92. compas
93. conscious hip hop
94. contemporary christian
95. contemporary classical
96. contemporary folk
97. contemporary gospel
98. contemporary jazz
99. contemporary r&b
100. contra
101. cool jazz
102. country
103. country blues
104. country folk
105. country pop
106. country rock
107. coupé-décalé
108. cowpunk
109. crossover prog
110. crust punk
111. cumbia
112. cumbia villera
113. cyberpunk
114. d-beat
115. dance
116. dance-pop
117. dance-punk
118. dancehall
119. dark ambient
120. dark electro
121. dark folk
122. dark wave
123. death metal
124. death-doom metal
125. deathcore
126. deathgrind
127. deathrock
128. deep house
129. delta blues
130. descarga
131. desert rock
132. detroit techno
133. digital hardcore
134. disco
135. doo-wop
136. doom metal
137. downtempo
138. dream pop
139. drill
140. drill and bass
141. drone
142. drum and bass
143. dub
144. dub techno
145. dubstep
146. dungeon synth
147. east coast hip hop
148. ebm
149. edm
150. electric blues
151. electro
152. electro house
153. electro swing
154. electro-funk
155. electro-industrial
156. electroclash
157. electronic
158. electronic rock
159. electronica
160. electronicore
161. electropop
162. electropunk
163. emo
164. emocore
165. enka
166. ethereal
167. euro house
168. eurodance
169. europop
170. experimental
171. experimental rock
172. fado
173. filk
174. flamenco
175. folk
176. folk metal
177. folk pop
178. folk punk
179. folk rock
180. freak folk
181. free improvisation
182. free jazz
183. funk
184. funk carioca
185. funk metal
186. funk rock
187. funk soul
188. funky house
189. fusion
190. future garage
191. future jazz
192. futurepop
193. g-funk
194. gabber
195. gangsta rap
196. garage
197. garage house
198. garage punk
199. garage rock
200. glam
201. glam metal
202. glam rock
203. glitch
204. goa trance
205. goregrind
206. gospel
207. gothic
208. gothic metal
209. gothic rock
210. grebo
211. grime
212. grindcore
213. groove metal
214. group sounds
215. grunge
216. guaguancó
217. guajira
218. guaracha
219. happy hardcore
220. hard bop
221. hard house
222. hard rock
223. hard trance
224. hardcore hip hop
225. hardcore punk
226. hardcore techno
227. hardstyle
228. harsh noise
229. harsh noise wall
230. hauntology
231. heavy metal
232. heavy psych
233. heavy rock
234. hi-nrg
235. hip hop
236. hip house
237. honky tonk
238. horror punk
239. horrorcore
240. house
241. idm
242. illbient
243. indie
244. indie folk
245. indie pop
246. indie rock
247. indietronica
248. indorock
249. industrial
250. industrial metal
251. industrial musical
252. industrial rock
253. industrial techno
254. instrumental
255. instrumental jazz
256. instrumental rock
257. irish folk
258. italo-disco
259. j-pop
260. j-rock
261. jazz
262. jazz blues
263. jazz fusion
264. jazz rap
265. jazz rock
266. jazz-funk
267. joik
268. jungle
269. k-pop
270. kawaii metal
271. kayōkyoku
272. kizomba
273. klezmer
274. krautrock
275. latin
276. latin jazz
277. latin pop
278. latin rock
279. leftfield
280. line dance
281. lo-fi
282. lounge
283. lovers rock
284. madchester
285. mainstream rock
286. maloya
287. mambo
288. mandopop
289. martial industrial
290. maskanda
291. math rock
292. mathcore
293. medieval
294. melodic black metal
295. melodic death metal
296. melodic metalcore
297. melodic rock
298. melodic trance
299. mento
300. merengue
301. metal
302. metalcore
303. miami bass
304. microhouse
305. milonga
306. min'yō
307. mincecore
308. minimal
309. minimal techno
310. minimal wave
311. modern blues
312. modern classical
313. modern country
314. motown
315. mpb
316. musical
317. neo soul
318. neo-progressive rock
319. neo-rockabilly
320. neo-traditional country
321. neofolk
322. nerdcore
323. new age
324. new jack swing
325. new romantic
326. new wave
327. nightcore
328. no wave
329. noise
330. noise pop
331. noise rock
332. noisecore
333. non-music
334. norteño
335. northern soul
336. nu jazz
337. nu metal
338. nueva canción
339. occult rock
340. oi
341. old school death metal
342. old-time
343. opera
344. orchestral
345. outlaw country
346. p-funk
347. pachanga
348. polka
349. pop
350. pop metal
351. pop punk
352. pop rap
353. pop rock
354. pop soul
355. pornogrind
356. post-bop
357. post-classical
358. post-grunge
359. post-hardcore
360. post-metal
361. post-punk
362. post-rock
363. power electronics
364. power metal
365. power pop
366. powerviolence
367. production music
368. progressive
369. progressive folk
370. progressive house
371. progressive metal
372. progressive rock
373. progressive trance
374. psy-trance
375. psychedelic
376. psychedelic folk
377. psychedelic pop
378. psychedelic rock
379. psychobilly
380. psytrance
381. punk
382. punk rock
383. queercore
384. r&b
385. ragga
386. ragga hip-hop
387. ragga jungle
388. ragtime
389. raï
390. ranchera
391. rap rock
392. rapcore
393. rave
394. red song
395. reggae
396. reggaeton
397. rhythmic noise
398. ritual ambient
399. rock
400. rock and roll
401. rockabilly
402. rocksteady
403. romantic classical
404. roots reggae
405. rumba
406. ryūkōka
407. salsa
408. samba
409. schlager
410. screamo
411. shibuya-kei
412. shoegaze
413. singer-songwriter
414. ska
415. ska punk
416. skacore
417. slow waltz
418. sludge metal
419. smooth jazz
420. smooth soul
421. soca
422. soft rock
423. son cubano
424. son montuno
425. soul
426. soul jazz
427. southern rock
428. southern soul
429. space rock
430. speed garage
431. speed metal
432. spoken word
433. steampunk
434. stoner metal
435. stoner rock
436. street punk
437. surf rock
438. swamp pop
439. swamp rock
440. swing
441. symphonic black metal
442. symphonic metal
443. symphonic prog
444. symphonic rock
445. symphony
446. synth-pop
447. synthwave
448. tango
449. tech house
450. technical death metal
451. techno
452. teen pop
453. thrash metal
454. thrashcore
455. timba
456. traditional country
457. trance
458. trap
459. trap edm
460. tribal ambient
461. tribal house
462. trip hop
463. turntablism
464. uk drill
465. uk funky
466. uk garage
467. underground hip hop
468. vallenato
469. vaporwave
470. viking metal
471. visual kei
472. vocal house
473. vocal jazz
474. vocal trance
475. waltz
476. west coast hip hop
477. west coast swing
478. western swing
479. yacht rock
480. yé-yé
481. zamrock
482. zeuhl
483. zouk
484. zydeco

Is a genre missing from the list? Request it by adding a style ticket.

Chuckle

From https://uiowa.referrals.selectminds.com/jobs/search/1914592, it makes me chuckle when I see the "New York" as an "example" location for the University of Iowa Jobs page… maybe "Iowa City" or "Iowa" would be a better example?

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This is the line of code to change:

<input type="text" aria-label="Location (e.g. &quot;New York&quot;)" placeholder="Location (e.g. &quot;New York&quot;)" value="" class="search_input font_bold jLocInput ui-autocomplete-input ui-autocomplete-loading placeholder" name="location_geo" id="location_geo" autocomplete="off">

Ivan Jenic is Busy!

Wow! 7 out of 8 articles on https://windowsreport.com/windows-7-windows-10-migration-checklist/ are by Ivan Jenic.

Editor's Note: Someone needs to fix the HTML in the red boxes as well as the purple box because the "alt" tag should not be seen.

Ugly Code!

This is your HTML lesson for the day! 

First, I was looking at a non-public facing web page and, with all but a couple of words hidden to protect the content, this is what the User sees:

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Second, I decided to look at the HTML code and, with all but a couple of words hidden to protect the content, the following is what the Developer sees.

But before you look at that, notice line 24. It is a cell in a table with the number 1. Then, in the next cell in the same row, there is text. Notice line 28. It is a cell in a table with the number 2. Then, in the next cell in the same row, there is text.

THAT IS WRONG!!! for a simple reason. That content is NOT TABULAR DATA, which means it DOES NOT BELONG WITHIN A TABLE!!!

Instead, for a numbered list, there should be an ordered list tag - OL - followed by each numbered item within a list tag LI.

Now, you can look at the HTML code.

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Get The Same Great Service Closer To Home

I noticed the following about an email I received yesterday:

1. The subject of the email is displayed in both the email preview and the actual email (green arrow). 
2. The "Get The Same Great Service Closer To Home" text in the red box in the email preview does not display in the actual email (red arrow)
3. The "This message contains graphics. If you do not see the graphics, click here to" is displayed in both the email preview and the actual email (purple arrow)

Why? Was that an actual choice the person (or more likely, the machine) that created the email made? Is there some algorithm that determines whether to display the "Get The Same Great Service Closer To Home" text in the actual email? I'm thinking of pseudo code like:
If 
Customer Zip Code is (a list of zip codes in the Iowa City area, including 52317, 
Then 
do not display the "Get The Same Great Service Closer To Home" text in the email body
Else
do display the "Get The Same Great Service Closer To Home" text in the email body

I have realized that when I think about design choices that someone else made or that I'm trying to make at work, it's a rabbit hole and, when I realize that's where I am, I need to jump out of the rabbit hole before I get too deep.

Who Tests the Code Before the User?

Who allows their code to be published where the internal tags that identify the content type field names to display in the browser? I would be embarrassed! I would also test what my code will look like to the user before I published it! I do that now with the documentation I create for disaster recovery and for Knowledge Management.

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Crazy BAD CSS Code

The red arrows point to where the size of the graphic is set.

This is what the story looks like in "Print Layout" mode in Firefox

This is what the story looks like when the text size is set to 50% - the graphic remains HUGE!!

The article from which I captured the above: The New York Times Unites vs. Twitter

Ironic Subject for this Email

The subject of the email I received from Lazer 103.3 - a radio station in Des Moines, IA, is "Don't Bust!" It's ironic because, as you can see below, the email is 'busted' because of the errors in the multiple red boxes.

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Apply Source Formatting

css Apply Source Formatting DW 2017

Holy CRAP!! I FEEL DUMB!!

It started with this query on 3/29/2019:

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Can I use Regular Expressions to replace this:
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<title>CTE/Voice Services/Grandstream Patient Room Phones - External Resources</title>

With this:

<title>CTE - Voice Services - Grandstream Patient Room Phones - External Resources</title>
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Since that innocent query, the amount of knowledge I've been trying to process is staggering. Every time I think about learning how to code by taking a Kirkwood class or through Lynda.com, I read something like this link on stack overflow that Chris M sent to me in his effort to help me solve this and shake my head. So much of that page goes sailing over my head! I think, “You’re a dumb English major that didn’t know what he was doing in 1994 and typed “c:\del *.*” in DOS (when I really wanted to just delete .txt files, but I didn’t know I could type “C:\del *.txt”.

Then I think about how I *know* now (today) that “c:\del *.*” was a dumb thing to type and that I have learned so much about DOS since then, by reading sites like stack overflow, by experimenting, by asking questions of Chris, Brian C, and anyone else I come in contact with via email or the Internet.

That brings me back to wanting to use that gnawing feeling of “I’m really stupid and could never learn this stuff” as motivation to do just that: learn it! Time will tell if I learn as much about regular expressions as I have learned about DOS!

I went back to earlier in the process of trying to figure this out because I thought I had seen where the command (see, I don’t even know if I call the things I’m trying to create “commands” or “expressions” or something else!) would look inside the <title> tag. That led me back to https://regexr.com/4bdf0 and guess what?

It seems to work for me. I ran it over my directory and it was working like I expected. I then replaced the <title> & </title> tags with <h1> & </h1> because I have the same type of thing within the Heading 1 tags. Preliminary results are encouraging!

I’m lucky in that I can regenerate these HTML pages any time I want and they are stored within a single directory (c:\rh\drdoc\e-r) which means if I screw something over, I simply regenerate the files and don’t paint myself into a corner by “permanently” mucking up my files.

So, crossing fingers, I think I have it!

So Why?

I have 10 find and replace "actions" I want to run within Dreamweaver CC 2018. I remembered that I can save those "actions" as a .dwr file so that I do not need to manually do these 3 steps x 10:

1. set the Find value 
2. set the Replace value
3. set any additional options

I often use the scenario that the work I do is for when you are using software and you don't know how or don't remember how to complete a task, you go to the help text for the answers. That's what I did. On the Find and Replace window, I clicked the ? icon, which took me to this page: https://helpx.adobe.com/dreamweaver/using/find-replace-text.html?mv=product&mv2=dw#multiple

However, I noticed in the Save and load search queries section, the two icons with the red square in the screen capture below were not present:

I thought that was odd. So, I looked directly below it and saw this text:

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By default, saving and loading search queries is not enabled in Dreamweaver CC 2017 and 2018 versions. However, if you really need to be able to save and load search queries, then complete the following steps to enable this feature.

Make sure you have Dreamweaver CC 2017.1 installed. Open Dreamweaver and use the Advanced Find and Replace dialog at least once, and then close Dreamweaver.




On Windows:

• Open the Registry Editor - In the Start Menu, either in the Run Box or the Search box, type regedit and press Enter.
• Navigate to the following location: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Dreamweaver CC 2017\Advanced Find And Replace
• Right click and create a new string value with ShowHiddenOptions=TRUE.
• Close the Registry Editor.
Note: If you cannot find Advanced Find and Replace in your Windows Registry Editor, clear your Dreamweaver preferences, and open Dreamweaver again.






Right-click and create a string value with ShowHiddenOptions.




Add the value data as TRUE.




Close the Registry Editor.

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Thus, I followed those instructions.

Now, when I open that window, I see the two icons in the upper-right of the window:

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However, having done that, I do have a question about the tone of this part of the help text:

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By default, saving and loading search queries is not enabled in Dreamweaver CC 2017 and 2018 versions. However, if you really need to be able to save and load search queries...

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WHY?!? Why was the default changed? Who decided that? What was the reasoning? Was it determined that not many users were actually using this functionality? Is there any sort of repercussion for enabling the option? WHY!?!?!?

ATH - 13 Lies Employers Tell About Job Offers

I'm pretty sure I've bemoaned not knowing about Nick Corcodilos during my job search in 2016. I think just reading Corcodilos' perspective would have been really helpful during those days between when I was laid off from Pearson and when my current manager offered my current job to me.

While my job search in 2016 has been on my mind this week - and yes, I know it's only Tuesday! - I've also been thinking about my job search in 2011 because I happened to see a "Technical Communication Specialist" opening at the Unnamed Hellhole in southern Iowa, yesterday. Readers of this blog will recall that the Unnamed Hellhole in southern Iowa company is the label I've given to the company I left Quintrex to join. It's also the company I hated working at. I stayed there for a mere 5 months, 3 weeks, 5 days (177 of the longest days of my E N T I R E  L I F E!!), which is how long it took before I was informed I was not a good fit for the role, which was also called Technical Communication Specialist.

What I noticed in the job ad yesterday were two things:

1. The job description mentions the need to adhere to standards.
• When I was at that company, I asked my co-worker what the standard was for spaces after a period. Her response was "Use one unless it looks funny, then use two." I sincerely hope that isn't a "standard" they are wanting this role to adhere to!
2. The job description mentions that there is a desire to hire a person into this role who has experience with Madcap Software and HTML.
• When I was at that company, my purpose was to write online Help for their budding software products. However, the idea of using another tool, such as Madcap Flare or RoboHelp for that online Help, was off the table because the department used InDesign in the most asinine possible way on the planet. It was interesting to me to see Madcap Software and HTML listed in the job description when those were not options when I was there.

I worked at the Unnamed Hellhole in southern Iowa and I don't regret anything about the experience. While it's been a whopping 7 years, 6 months, 2 weeks, 3 days (2757 days) since I worked there, I went through the following logic in my head.

1. Had I not left Quintrex for the Unnamed Hellhole in southern Iowa, I don't really know if I would have been hired at Pearson. 
1. Had I not been hired at Pearson, I don't really know if I would have had at least two things happen that happened during my time at Pearson. 
1. Professionally, I know that working with Confluence and learning about includes and snippets and variables ignited a passion for my work. I don't know if I would have ever found that renewed passion 
2. Outside of work, I know without a shadow of a doubt that because Pearson sent me to WritersUA 2012 in Memphis, TN, I found the fire within me for playing drums in an Ideal Band was reignited. I don't know if I would have ever met Joe or Matthew, who were in Lou's Classic Ride with me, or if I would have thought to ask Brian Guitar to play guitar in that band with me. It was such a fluke that Brian Guitar's schedule allowed him to be off early on Friday during the summer. Pearson's policy of allowing its employees to work 36 hours M - R and then 4 hours on Fridays  allowed Joe, Matthew, and I to be able to rehearse on Friday afternoons as well.
1. Had I not been laid off at Pearson, I don't really know if I would have been hired here.

As you just read, there is a direct relationship between working at the Unnamed Hellhole in southern Iowa and what I do now. As I just wrote, absolutely NO, I don't regret anything about the experience. A lot of elements fell into place and for all of those elements mentioned above and being removed by my internal editor as I write these words, without the good and the bad in life, I wouldn't be where I am now. This article by Nick Corcodilos - 13 lies employers tell about job offers - was published today and while not directly related to anything I have wrote above, just knowing about his existence has seemed to somehow reinforce how God has blessed me by being able to live the life I lead.