Oh! I think the Bookmarks Bar does what I need. Thanks!

I just type two letters and Chrome fills in the place I normally go. This website is "bu" + Enter.

Oh! I think the Bookmarks Bar does what I need. Thanks!

The Bookmarks Bar is my favorite thing EVER. Everything I use daily right there. I love it.

Don't all browsers have the bookmark bar now? I don't think of it as a Chrome thing.

Oh, lord, Yahoo has changed the way the mail displays, so that it's an infinite scroll. Which is fine, I guess, if you view newest messages at the top. I view them at the bottom, so now it wants to scroll through all my messages dating from 1997.

Jesse,

also, if you get the extension quickmarks, you can assign fav websites keywords and you can get to the site quicker. For example, this one is buffy. All I do is type "b buffy" hit return and I'm here.

Oh, hey, I was gonna explain why the references thing is do vexing when I got home. And now I'm home. So.

They want 3 "professional associations" and the length of time of the association, for the references.I gave them the same three references that I gave the temp agency, my last 3 employers (skipping the inventory taking company, because, really, that doesn't count, but maybe I should reconsider that) who happen to be my brother, my sister, and a friend of mine. Because I have hardly worked for the last, uh, 8 years, and when I have it's been for friends and family, pretty much. So, they twigged that the guy with the same last name as me might be a relative, and they think he won't be an unbiased reference, which I can hardly fault them for. My sister is not obviously my sister, but I just worked for her for a quick month helping with a business plan, and that is too short a time.

So, inventory was 3 months. Technorati was one month. And then we're back to the NO Sewerage and Water Board and I'm not sure that Jack would remember me at this point. And before that was the store that has since closed so there's really no way to reach anyone I worked with even if references from over a decade ago made some kind of sense.

Ack, -t, I don't know how you get around that, but I bet googling stuff about reentering the workforce would find something for you. Also, I have worked continuously and will still definitely use a reference from ten years ago. Because we are now friends! Can you use friends you've done some kind of project with? I mean, shit, I would be your reference!

I just type two letters and Chrome fills in the place I normally go. This website is "bu" + Enter.

No typing! I like to just click click click. And then type sometimes.

Don't all browsers have the bookmark bar now? I don't think of it as a Chrome thing.

They may do, but I've only ever used bookmarks for occasional sites, not regular ones. Regular ones should be in the pull-down or, at worst, auto-fill.

Yeah, I haven't stayed in contact with anyone I worked with back then. And the last e-mail from HR specifically said that they like the reference to only go 5-10 years back.

I have lots of people willing to be a reference for me, but I can't claim a lengthy "professional association" with any of them.

I think maybe my best bet is to list the inventory company and the person who hired me at the temp agency, because even though I haven't seen her since my first week on this assignment she is technically my supervisor. Those are three months each. It's obvious from my resume that I don't have a lot of long-term gigs and we discussed that in my interviews, but neither of those were with HR so I guess they have different expectations.

Man, I have way too many bookmarks, it is ridiculous. I mostly use autofill for my regular sites, I think.

No typing! I like to just click click click. And then type sometimes.

Heh - my summer intern is constantly bitching about the lack of keyboard shortcuts in our workflow (mostly internal web service tools), because he hates clicking.