Oddest Jobs of 2008

Posted on Yahoo this morning, I figured I would go ahead and give a plug to some interesting surveys shown about some of the strangest jobs people have taken for work.  The list goes from A-Z and can be found here as well.

• A: Autopsy assistant
• B: Bartender at the Liberace mansion
• C: Cat nanny
• D: Donkey trainer
• E: Elf at Santa’s workshop
• F: FBI Fingerprint examiner
• G: Grave digger
• H: Hurricane hunter
• I: Ice sculpture carver
• J: Junk mail machine operator
• K: Kitty litter box decorator
• L: Laser tag referee
• M: Magician’s assistant
• N: Nuclear electrician on a submarine
• O: Opera singer
• P: Parachute tester
• Q: Quality control/taster for chocolate factory
• R: Romance specialist
• S: Scratcher (scratched backs for patients)
• T: Turkey wrangler
• U: Undercover vice decoy
• V: Video game tester
• W: Wallpaper peeler
• X: X-ray technician for zoo animals
• Y: Yawn counter at a sleep clinic
• Z: Zamboni driver

I’m not going to lie but some of these jobs seem pretty cool to be working for.  Like, Zamboni Driver, Romance Specialist, and Laser Tag Referee.  All of them are equally badass, and more fun that a librarian!

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Google Chrome not as polished as it should be?

Now that the new browser is out many people are having their words and chiming in good or bad about such product. However throughout the technology consensus, Chrome is supposedly lackluster in return….well, that’s great and call considering that Chrome is all of one day old.

I understand why Mozilla and Microsoft make big stinks saying their not impressed. However, we must look back to when navigator was king, they weren’t impressed with IE probably. IE wasn’t impressed with Firefox and now its the supposed “king” of the browsers. There mere fact that people are so quick to bash a less than 24 hour old product is just amazing. Not to mention that this product is considered a BETA product is even better. The browser will get better. It’s pretty much open to all developers to create their own widgets and share it to the world.

It will be big, just like Google does everything they do big. I however am quite excited about the new advancements, that could potentially be created because someone is willing to try and open new doors.

Just give Chrome more time to shine than 24 hours. All things great did not instantly happen, they were created and crafted time and time again until perfection.

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Google Chrome is being released today….

*Update – The link to download Google Chrome Beta Can Be Found Here!*

So today is the day a new open source web browser is released.  Aiming at taking the functionality of firefox and making it better.  I for one will be one of the millions that is downloading it at 2 o clock to see what its all about.  This project has been on the table since 2004 when google pulled its development staff off of firefox and began with a fresh start aiming to correct the problems that IE and Firefox have long since ignored when it comes to web-browsing.

The main feature of this new internet browsing window is that each tabbed page is running it’s own process, so this should completly make the crashing browser a memory and only allows the single page that is corrupted to crash.  Pretty sweet, as often times on firefox, when one page crashes, the whole browser crashes.  It’s not really a big deal, but if it happens normally to you, then this is certainly the option to go for.

Also another step up to the browsing features Chrome has is the Webkit engine, made famous by Apple’s Safari and various nokia cell phone browsing applications.  Also, the “omnibox” is finally out of beta mode(which can be seen on the google home page, when you search you get the amount of searches and it autocompletes for you) and the final mode will enable a smart search filter for you and create results even faster, and more accurate to ease the searching for the consumer.

All in all I am highly excited and will be giving my take on this browser after it has been downloaded and viewed upon by the masses!  Enjoy!

Uploaded below was is a released image from google describing the new Google Chrome in comic book form!

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