The News

Now that the news has been made public I can say that yes we did have some folks who were laid off last Friday. I was not one of them. The company is strong but they had to make some cuts to deal with the effect of Wal-Mart removing a lot of entertainment machines from their stores. The good news is that Wal-Mart is going to be putting in more coin counting and RedBox DVD kiosks. In the end we're going to be sitting pretty.

We are still looking for a Database Architect and I would recommend this as a place to work. You can work in lots of places but it's who you work with that makes your job good or bad. I work with some great people and my manager rocks my socks every day.

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“Best way to scare crows,” said Mr. Vandemar, “you just creep up
behind them and you put your hand round their little crow necks and
squeeze until they don’t move anymore. That scares the stuffing out
of them.”