November 2004 Entries

Being the luddite that I am, I got home last Thursday after work and didn't bother checking my voice mail. What programmer really expects to have a voice mail waiting on their personal phone? A better question is, Who leaves a personal voice mail for a programmer? It's not like we've made a name for ourselves as outgoing social animals. For some reason this morning, I decided to check my voice mail. Sure enough the dial tone was intermittant. Check the message and low and behold, I have one more company interested in my services. This is a group that I had long ago written off. I did...

Today I spent 4 hours working on a revamped resume based on the suggestion of a to be unnamed IT consulting company.  Apparentally the old one would not get very much interest from potential employers.  They told me this on Monday and sure enough I get a call on Wednesday (from another consulting company) and one today from a small IT firm.  Guess the old resume turned a couple of heads. The guy on Wednesday seemed optomistic (perhaps not genuinely) for the chance at a contract doing Crystal Reports dev with Fujitsu.  Buddy today is from a small company making software for agriculture and looking for a .NET...

So its post #1.  Woopee.  Have you ever watched a cow graze in a field.  Bout that exciting eh? What we'll try to do here is post some random and perhaps relevant tech stuff as well as my ongoing quests.