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I'm Mike Pope. I live in the Seattle area. I've been a technical writer and editor for over 35 years. I'm interested in software, language, music, movies, books, motorcycles, travel, and ... well, lots of stuff.

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Information is the currency of the Internet. As a medium, the Internet is brilliantly efficient at shifting information from the hands of those who have it into the hands of those who do not. [...] The Internet has accomplished what no consumer advocate could: it has vastly shrunk the gap between the experts and the public.

— D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner, Freakonomics



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First entry - 6/27/2003
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How to handle a phone interview

Tuesday, 30 March 2004   09:01 AM

Gretchen Ledgard, a senior recruiter-type person at Microsoft, blogs about how to handle a phone interview, including a juicy lists of faux pas. Here's a tip from Gretchen: don't pee during your phone interview. Apparently it's happened ...

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