So, you’re the Piqua, Ohio Human Resources manager (or City Manager). You come to work one day and find out that 6.4% of your workforce won’t be working for you anymore. My thought/question: In today’s budget crisis climate, is this a bad thing (reduced ability to provide services) or a good thing (layoffs without the …
Monthly Archives: December 2008
Contracting Amusement
I’m in the amusing situation of holding a contractor’s cajones to the fire. This is amusing because with my day job I’m usually the one getting beaten on by the “we could just go elsewhere if you don’t do it the way we like it (rather than the way we contracted it), silly consultant boy!” …
Dogs and Trash Companies
The items in the title are not linked. They are two things that piqued my interest in this morning’s daily news email from the AJC. One: They’re using dogs to chase geese away from the City of Atlanta water reservoirs. Cool. Two: Two trash-collection firms in Gwinnett county are shutting down due to the County …
Virus Comparison
One of the blogs I read has an interesting quote: To translate that into simpler terms: they didn’t just compare the genome of the new Ebola variant to other Ebola viruses; that wouldn’t be particularly difficult, since the Ebola genome is only about 19K of data. But they compared it to the sequenced genomes of …