Well, it looks like the interview on Monday was fairly successful. Thank God.
The feedback (that finally came yesterday) was that everything had gone fine, that I’d impressed the interviewer (God knows how) and that the only stumbling block is that bloody JSP (Java Server Pages) stuff. So what they’re likely to do (and it won’t be confirmed ’til next week, once the guy’s back from Spain) is give me a developer job first – which’ll still pay more than I’m on here – and make sure I get trained hard in JSP stuff, so that I can look at doing the Lead developer role ASAP.
Which sounds pretty cool to me.
And yes, if it does get offered, you can be sure I’ll be taking it. Even if it does mean working in Slough… *shudder*
Somehow, I’m failing to see the attraction in this.
You have to be aged 18 and over to get in and tickets will cost £15 for the attraction which opens on 7 September.
The theme park will include life-sized silicone-made models which visitors can touch to discover erogenous zones.
Although I do love the line about it being “a sex theme park with no rides”. For a sex themepark “with rides” I assume you need to pay your £15 in Soho, or Amsterdam…
Over on Where’s Good I’ve been making some changes. Most of these changes are primarily due to me being a dumb-ass.
So it’s been a morning of fixing little things that I really should’ve figured a while back.
Stupid shit like meta-tags, and making sure that when Google, Yahoo, MSN etc. come to the site, they’re allowed to see it and index it. *sigh* Yes, I’d told all the searchbots to sod off – I’d done that intentionally while I was working on the site, and then forgot to turn that off when it all went live. Sod
And I’d failed to consider stupid things, like people typing in certain webpage addresses themselves, and possibly getting certain (important) bits wrong.
But that’s been fixed now too – mainly because I did exactly that, and then thought “ooh, shit.”
So yes, on occasion, it’s good to be a dumb-ass…
You know you’ve got problems when, on their first assignment for the company, the new graphic design and layout guy comes up with a graphic that says “Monorable” instead of “Honorable”.
And doesn’t even spot the mistake himself…
Oh lucky me, I get to rewrite one of the company’s ropiest sites. (Which is quite an achievement in itself)
Put it this way – it still uses the <marquee> tag. I’m just waiting for my first sighting of <blink>…
A couple of months ago, I joined the local library. It made sense (and closed off an age of naggage from Herself) and meant I could read (and in some cases re-read) stuff without having to pay for it.
Until now, one of the things I hadn’t bothered with was renewing the books – and it turns out I can do that online. Now that is useful – especially considering I’d forgotten to bring the books in, and they were due tomorrow…
Scene : A major commuter railway station. 8.30am.
A flood of people are coming off the train from London to work here. The flood is such that people wanting to get in to the station can’t.
Why?
Because the fucking twunts in the station have locked half the doors, so no-one can use them, in or out.
When I asked why this was, the first person said “I don’t know, I’m Revenue, I just check tickets.”
Well, can you pass the comment on to someone who does work in the sodding station?
“Oh no, I’m just Revenue. You’ll have to talk to the guy in the ticket office”
Grrr.
So I ask him.
“Well, I suppose we could unlock it. Don’t see why though.”
Because it’s busy?
“Oh, I suppose so”
Talk about enthusiasm. I bet the sodding thing’s still locked when I go home tonight.
Amazingly, D4D™ now contains no less than 893,243 words.
I was asked by the owner of Arena Flowers for a link to them. So here it is, a link to Arena Flowers. Who are, apparently, lovely and professional.
