Well...

I _thought_ I was going to Slashdot, but apparently it's Retribution instead. Oh, the fun and games. Currently sitting about in Hannah's place having terribly geeky conversations with Tef about radix sorts and with Paul about Java IDEs. Soon people will be ready!

(Feeling somewhat hyper, in a slightly sleep-deprived kind of way. My attention span is completely shot.)

Just awake

Haven't slept this late in years.

Checking FB, I notice that my friends largely agree with my self-analysis _except_ when it comes to my agreeableness, where it turns out I'm a complete bastard.


My first thought is to wonder what I'm doing wrong. Apparently I don't come across as interested in them, which is weird, as I _think_ I am. Maybe I'm just fooling myself.

Edit: What's even more interesting is that I then went to answer some more questions and found myself focussing on the times I _haven't_ been there for my friends, interested in their troubles, etc. and found that my agreeableness score plummeted. Which either means that self-assessment scores are notoriously vulnerable to situational variables or that I hadn't realised how callous I really am. Or, most likely, both.

No, really, I have experience

Way back in 1998 I went for a job interview working in Visual Foxpro (a database system). I chatted to the boss for five minutes and then he grabbed some sheets of paper with code on them and said "Tell me what this does."

So I read through the code, not really understand what it was doing from a business point of view because it was a chunk from the middle of a much longer program, but able to point out loops, function calls, select statements, etc.

And then I asked what that was about, as I couldn't possibly understand what the code was really doing. And he told me that about one applicant in three had put Visual Foxpro down on their CV, but didn't actually know anything about it at all.

Which does make me wonder - I've put down that I have experience in Office despite not really having used various bits of it more than on the odd occasion - but putting in whole languages you don't know? How are you going to get away with that for more than a week or so?

So if you're being going for a job and the interviewer starts asking you the most pointless and basic questions, now you know why...

Fun and games with mashups

Subterranean Homesick Blues with whatever you like on the boards.

Mine is here.

Video sharing advice

What's a good site to put videos on where they can't be searched for? I want to share a few videos with people, but don't want random strangers coming across them...