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Wed, 09 Mar 2005
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It was I who assumed that all midgets who happen to be organised enough to come packing serious llama action also stock cream. I too apologise right now. Lindsay lies a little. She was still around when we got to designing our redundant array of individual midgets (RAIM).
My employer is an equal opportunity employer, and I would welcome the opportunity to work with a midget. I certainly don't think we were poking fun at midgets per se -- it could easily have been geeks.
As long as they were packing llama action of some form. I once again personally apologise for anyone who now wants to litigate against me, hurt me, or never hire me.
Technorati tags for this post: blog work
posted at: 22:50 | path: /diary | permanent link to this entry
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Andrew has been a very good boy, and deserved some reward. I hope this does it:
Don't you wanna host my site now?
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posted at: 22:26 | path: /diary | permanent link to this entry
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Lindsay, it's called ego surfing when you google for yourself. It's a slippery slope -- soon you'll be caring what other people think or something.
Another element of why I would google for people before hiring them occurred to me while driving around running errands during lunch today. Basically it's a check for social interactions in a relevant community. If I had to chose between two equally qualified people, one of whom I could see what on mailing lists, forums, blogging, somehow involved with the community around their industry, then I would chose them over the simple nine to fiver. I want someone who loves what they do, and you get that by finding someone who is passionate about the field.
I'd also be checking to make sure they weren't ranty or evil in some way of course.
This possible doesn't work for all fields though. Is there an online community of receptionists?
Lindsay, I'd be making sure that you're leaving a good impression behind you, and showing enthusiasm. Apart from that, it doesn't really matter what you're doing online. The more the merrier of course.
Lindsay also says:
"Now, the problem of "write something stupid on your blog and it may come back to haunt you" seems to arise only because *some* people are making an assumption of privacy. That if one's blog is read at all it's read by an anonymous crowd, whom the writer will never know."
So true. You'd have to be pretty silly to assume that only your friends read your blog. As I sometimes tell people who are being foolish on public mailing lists -- google has a long memory.
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posted at: 19:47 | path: /diary | permanent link to this entry
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In a further attempt to have a discussion with my work mates in the most public manner possible, Ian (my nominal boss, although we have very few bossly interactions) comments
on
my
recent
comments
about
my
work.
He does two things. First, he misinterprets the porn surfing at work comment. I haven't porn surfed at work, and I'm certainly not bored this week (heck, I've had two meetings this morning, and an off to my third in a second, how could I possibly be bored?). That was a "quote" from an interview candidate's blog which my mate at the security company had to deal with.
Secondly, further cubicle commentary clarification is required. I didn't mean to imply that all of my coworkers interrupt me. There are a specific couple to blame, and I certainly wasn't thinking of Ian. Then again, it does sound like Ian has a guilty conscience here.
Finally, it's ironic that our internal technical blogging isn't as lively as I had hoped. The external blogging about each other certainly seems to be hotting up. Perhaps there is hope for us after all.
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posted at: 17:03 | path: /diary | permanent link to this entry
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Mr Quinn (who was sentenced to life imprisonment at TOWER Software, but then paroled for good behaviour) kindly replied and clarified his points about the post that Gordon tipped me off to from Mr Quinn referring to my comments on Chris references to comments by Steven related to my comments about it being impossible to work in a cubicle environment.
Basically he said that he wasn't implying that it was my flaw that causes the problems with cubicle land, he was merely prodding me to think further on the issue. I apologise for the misinterpretation, and stand corrected.
I thought of another reason why Rory didn't get interrupted. He faced the oncoming traffic. That's not possible in our current cubicle setup, so people assume that if you're not talking to them you simply haven't noticed them, and therefore more loudness is justified.
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posted at: 16:46 | path: /diary | permanent link to this entry
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