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Interview Techniques

Been a long time since I sat on the dirty end of an interveiw, so figured the web would be able to give me some??good advise

This is what I found

http://www.kogan-page.co.uk/bookdetails.aspx?ISBN=0749443103
http://www.personneltoday.com/articles/2004/04/27/23436/interviews-how-to-handle-difficult-interview-questions.html
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/atwork/career/interview.mspx
http://www.interviewstuff.com/job-interview-process.html

and will keep looking

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The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs

A Sad Day

In march of 2001 I brought myself a 1999 1.8VVC MGF, 75?? Year limited edition??number 1250 of 2000.

Yesterday I sold it 🙁

Illegal downloads and ISPs

Just been pondering the internet and downloads etc and this news item sprung to mind www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/22/burnham_dcms_filesharing/ in which the government are threatening to put legislation so that ISPs stop their customers taking part in illegal downloads. This is like asking the police to stop every drink driver by stopping every vehicle on a busy motorway and breath testing every driver and all the passengers just to be sure.

The ISPs cant even do a decent job of stopping SPAM either from or to their networks, what chance to they stand of stopping peer2peer activities.

***king hell

been to london on the train today, usual trip, drive to swindon, get train to paddington

holy fuck, the price of an open return has gone up by EIGHT f**king quid to 98, since my last trip two months ago

and then I had to stand there and back, someone is taking this piss

A Top Gun View Point

I have spent a while staring at the big black and yellow handle above my head, so I thought what the hell and gave it a pull.

However the explosive bolts have failed to fire and I am stuck in the cockpit

Disk based backups and Earthquakes

About a month ago I was in an infrastructure meeting discussing backup strategy. The conversation was around disk based backups such as near store and Virtual tape libraries.
So I asked the question “do we know how these disk based backup system cope with earth quakes?”
As yesterdays data could be on the same disk that is being access today, a disk level corruption could be “interesting”
As the point in time I got laughed at, “Earthquakes, yeh right !”

Does not seem such a silly question now does it !

From BBC The biggest earthquake in the UK for nearly 25 years has shaken homes across large parts of the country.”

I have now officially seen it all

Trying not to be stereo typical, but while out this lunch time is saw, what i can only describe as Vicky Pollard with a push chair, and the 3 yr child, occupying the push chair, had a portable DVD player on his lap to keep hmm busy while the mother discussed the price of stuff in the pound shop with another Vicky Pollard look-a-like

Curriculum Vitae

What make a good technical Curriculum Vitae?
The Internet is flooded with differing opinions,
The only consistent thing seem to be lots of white space to aid reading and the following points in order

  • Personal details
  • Career Objective/Summary
  • Personal skills
  • Summary of skills (the technical page)
  • Work history (listing the most recent position first)

Outside of that, 2 pages, 4 pages, or 10 (if you have enough relevant content)
So lets say you have 4, will one of the 2 pages max HR / PIMP people chuck it straight in the shredder.?? Or you don???t have time to tweak a CV for a particular post, and they are looking for a skill you have left out to make it fit 2 pages.?? Catch22

Suggestions on a postcard !

AGGHH Bus Ticket Prices

Fucking outrage. go on te bus this morning to find the price of a DayRider ticket had gone up again, 2nd time in less than 12 months. 9 months ago it was 2.50 it is now 2.80, that is a 12% price hike.

the Sinlge ticket has also gone up from 1.40 to 1.50 (7%)

But then i suppose if i was not such a fat and lazy b’tard, I could cycle (only 2 miles)