Doggone if Yahoo! hasn’t gone and messed up my email page layout. In the interests of progress and freshness, I suppose, they’ve completely rejiggered the mailbox pages and it’s confusing to start with. I’ll get adjusted soon enough, but I wish they wouldn’t make such drastic changes like that.
I had trouble figuring out how to compose a message to send for quite a while. They don’t have a button marked Compose any more. It took me forever to find out that in the upper left corner there is an icon labeled New that will bring up the composing page. As in, “New mail,” get it? Well, I didn’t for a while. One feature that might be a little handier to use is the log/listing of all the messages sitting in the Inbox. Previously they had about 25 on there and you would have to press next to get to the next 25. Now they’ve got them all on one list. You can just scroll down as far as you need to retrieve an old incoming mail that you haven’t deleted or moved to a folder. Oh, well.
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There is a continuing flap about funding formulae for the SAFER and Fire Act grants, and how much should be allocated to them and to who. Firefighter Close Calls has encapsulated the latest in a posting HERE about what the IAFC representative said or didn’t say to a Congressional committee on the subject. This one started with a Firehouse.com article that the IAFC says is seriously misrepresentative of what they testified.
I don’t think there’s any question about the new funding being provided, despite the Heritage Foundation study, but the players are positioning to see who gets the biggest pieces of the pie. Click on that link that I put in the previous paragraph and see what’s going on this week.
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We were talking not long ago about how the rising unemployment in the country coupled with shrinking budgets is making it more challenging for job seekers in the FRD field. There’s an interesting article in this morning’s Dallas Morning News about how some departments are lowering their hiring standards to increase their applicant pool. That seems contrary to the theory that you should raise your standards when you’ve got more people looking for work. You can argue it both ways, I guess.
But I still say that your path to acceptance lies in getting your paramedic certification before you get hired. Read the article that I’m referring to HERE. It’s good food for thought and opinionating.
I’m not awake enough to take all that in just yet. I’ll go start some coffee while you get the equipment checked out. We’ll meet back in the day room.
