Five Tips For Doing Well In A Co-Op Interview
This winter, I will be going into my third work term in the Computer Science Co-Op program. Over the past two work terms, I’ve found that I’m pretty good at interviews; in fact, I have only gotten lower than a #1 ranking for one interview. I’ve also had the experience of being one of the…
Fix Your Facebook Privacy Settings
Earlier this week, Facebook rolled out a new privacy policy which allows outside applications to view information stored on you, including your likes, connections, education, current city, and more. Needless to say, there’s a big issue with privacy here. While you want your friends to be able to see this information, you want to avoid…
5 Goals For The Next 6 Months
Well, in an attempt to get back on my ‘writing horse’, I figured I’d start with some of the things that are rattling around my brain right now in terms of what I want to get accomplished in the short term. Some are computer-related, others are not. Nevertheless, I have some goals for things that…
Five Steps To Protect Against Browser Attacks
Some days, it pains me to see how woefully insecure some web browsers are. Every day, it seems that ten new browser-based exploits (or client-side attacks, as my presentation will tell you) are publicly released, and just because you’re on a site that you think is legitimate doesn’t mean that somebody hasn’t compromised it. For…
Five Sites To Waste Your Time On
Well, I start my new job today at Manitoba IPC. Next post I’ll talk about that, but seeing as how I will have only been working for about 3 hours by this point, I won’t have much to go off of. In the mean time, here’s a couple amusing sites if you have nothing to…
Five Albums I’m Listening To
For this installment of “Five Things“, I have decided to talk about some of the albums that are on my playlist right now that I enjoy listening to. Mute Math Mute Math – 2006 Mute Math is difficult to fit into any one genre. While they have an electronica base, they also exhibit both rock…
Five Web Comics I’m Reading
Something that I will try to do every once in a while is give a review of five of something that I think is particularly noteworthy to take a look at. It could be plugins, software utilities, websites, photos, or, web comics, like today. Today’s installment of Five Things is about five web comics that…
