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Interesting crossover - female wrestler Stacy Keibler is apparently doing well on Dancing with Stars, the American version of Strictly Come Dancing.

The advantage of having an imminent interview (and ultimately of having a job) is I can buy computer books without worrying so much about not having much money. They’re an investment you see…

A post on the WSJ blog (which is running on Wordpress incidentally) actually references an article on the Onion. The Onion by the way is a satirical online newspaper type thingy that I never thought a serious journalistic endeavour would talk about.

The WSJ points out that it’s “hard to write satire, but it’s even harder to write satire about corporate taxes”. In fact it’s so good that I might even read it despite the fact that I understand alarmingly little about what it’s talking about.

Another post talks about some bankrupty meeting in New York: “The California utility, which filed for bankruptcy at the end of December, only served ice water; last year’s Delta meeting featured coffee and soda (did Delta borrow from its airplane beverage carts?).”

On the off chance that she reads this… I’d like to say Happy Birthday to Julia’s sister Jade :)

Happy Birthday

Yay!

I’m going to Brussels on the 9th to see Julia. She’s going later today for her little sister’s birthday. We’re staying until the 15th then coming back. And then I get Julia for another 10 days until she’s goes back to Aberystywth.

Just thought I’d share :D

On a scarier note, I have that interview later today…

Happy New Year!

Woohoo, I have an interview.

Before they offered me a face-to-face interview they wanted to do a telephone interview first. This consisted of a series of technical questions I really wasn’t prepared for (“What’s the difference between an inner join and an outer join in SQL?”, “What are the restrictions on cookies?”, “What do the HTTP status codes 302 and 303 mean?”).

But since they offered me the interview I guess I did quite well :)

(On an unrelated note, “Woohoo” is not in the Google spellchecker database but “Whoop” is….)

jobs, interviews, web developer, PHP developer

Me and a friend of mine came up with an idea a while ago for a new website. Basically it would document really annoying things people do in a semi-anonymous way.

The motivation came mainly from people being completely unable to park their car properly. The most distinctive is one I unfortunately I have no evidence of. There was a minibus parked in a disabled parking space. Fair enough; it was probably carrying old people. The bad part is it was so badly parked that it actually blocked four parking spaces!

Anyway here’s a couple of pictures of some rather bad parking (not quite enough space to fit a car in there). It’s tough to know who to blame since we don’t know who parked first, but that white van seems quite far from the white line to the right. This may become a regular thing… just search Technorati for inconsiderate :)

I recently applied for a job and they wanted some URLs of examples of my work. At the same time my server went down :( But it’s up again now obviously.

Not much to say except, yay, it’s December.