It’s hard to believe it, but today my daughter, Kayla, started her senior year at CMU. Even harder to believe is the fact that in a couple of semesters, she will be getting her college diploma and stepping out into the wide open world of life, profession, relationships, and everything else that comes included when…
Just finished watching “The New Mutants” with Kayla Morgan. Overall, the movie was better than I expected, but as my daughter put it “nothing seemed to really happen.” Perhaps it is strongest as a character study. It felt kind of like the Bottle Show episode of a really expensive TV series. It’s still worth checking…
Well, I’m back. On the day after Memorial Day, I woke up to discover that someone had broken into my account and changed the profile and header images on a page I maintained for the Shepherd Maple Syrup Festival. As I hurried to log into Facebook so that I could fix that problem, I discovered…
It has been hard for me to wrap my mind around the fact that our youngest son, Elijah, started the Third Grade this year. I’m not sure why, but that feels like a much bigger deal than the first or second grade. It’s as if he has crossed some kind of threshold that marked him…
RE: Request for a review of the decision to disable my Facebook Account June 1, 2021 . To Whom it May Concern, I am writing to you to ask that you review the recent disabling of my account for Jon Alan Morgan, under email address 32bpwr3@gmail.com. This morning, I discovered that the header and profile…
Almost one year ago, as I began to ramp up my job hunting efforts, I knew that I was going to need a system efficient enough to help me organize the job-related postings, confirmations, and conversations that I’d be engaging in until I found a new full-time position. This seemed like a job which was…
My first job after graduating from Central Michigan University was with an Internet Service Provider called HomeTown Online. The ISP was a subsidiary of the company which owned two local newspapers, HomeTown Newspapers. Our offices were located in the same building as the newsroom for the Livingston County Press, in Howell Michigan. As a fresh…
After I learned that I was being laid off last September 2019, I tried to relate my situation to the scenario that Liam Neilson’s character found himself in “Taken.” Sure, his daughter had been kidnapped during a vacation in Europe, but luckily his character had “a certain set of skills” and a lot of dedication….
As I have talked to people and researched the best strategy for marketing myself during my job search, I’ve reached the conclusion that I should try to sell myself in the same way that labels sell the products that sit on retail store shelves. For example, the information on the front of a box of…
This was going to be a rant against reCaptchas, but quickly escalated into a lot of different things, as I noticed failures on several levels. As a company, it is always important to think about how your user support is structured and check for any scenarios which might lead it to give your customers a…
