Raven's Journal

And they'll all be surprised when the candidates revolt

2010-05-10T16:35:00.000Z

Last spring I ended up doing several interviews (since I was unemployed at the time) and I know several people doing interviews right now.

What passes for acceptable is amazing.

One company contacted me for an interview, I replied via email and then poof nothing. I waited until the next day, sent another email to verify they received my last one. Well, I guess the recruiter decided to read my resume and not interview but didn't plan on telling me. The way I looked at it all the fail was on http://www.barracudanetworks.com/ns/?L=en.

I waited in rooms for 20 or 30 minutes. I answered stupid questions, and suffered through awkward office tours ("See the office you'll never work in, etc...").

When the job market becomes a candidate's market again, some companies will be in for a shock.

Oh Aion - You could be a great game

2009-12-16T14:37:00.000Z

Aion Online could be a great game. If ... NCSoft got their shit together; and fixed the bots and gold spamming. Seriously, it's really bad. So bad I lag. When I lag, I die. When I die, I lose XP. Thank you for backwards progress in many ways.

Also, really zero content for "casual" players. By "casual", I mean a few hours a week (not a day like some asses claim on their forums). Legions (guilds) appear to be shrinking.

I couldn't find a way decent Legion which apparently meant I would stop leveling at 25. I'd go further and say most of the players were very unhelpful. Maybe it was the death penality but often I found other players would watch my character die, loot the resources near my body and then go away. I'll go further and say NCSoft encourages this behavior with some of their design decisions.

Test 2

2009-05-29T19:50:00.000Z

test

Testing New Windows JJ Client

2009-05-29T19:45:00.000Z

Testing the new client

(no subject)

2008-10-07T16:14:00.000Z

The Emo Knight

test

2008-08-20T13:10:00.000Z

test

Testing Mobile page

2008-07-29T13:51:00.000Z

Testing mobile page

Oh no - Hans didn't do it (he just knows where the body is)

2008-06-09T12:02:00.000Z

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/06/hans-reiser-off.html

Testing New Features

2008-05-05T10:27:00.000Z

I'm at work. Just wanted to see how the tags work.

(no subject)

2008-02-04T13:47:00.000Z

Noah Webster, You're My Only Hope

Sadly, I understand this all too well.

Testing Widget

2008-01-19T10:55:00.000Z

Testing the 1.1 beta

I'm so tired...

2008-01-07T12:20:00.000Z

It's Monday and I'm tired. I didn't sleep well and on top of it, a certain client keeps sending emails. I have sort of been ignoring the emails. I only get so much done and then take a break. I can't do their work all day.

My sinuses have been acting up. The unexpected warm up in the weather has been causing me some problems. I like the warmth, my body is quite upset though.

(no subject)

2007-12-04T12:28:00.000Z

LJ just got sold - again! This time to a Russian company called SUP.

Testing Widget

2007-10-30T19:19:00.000Z

Testing the widget

(no subject)

2007-10-15T09:54:00.000Z

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2007/10/15/ccprof115.xml

Personally the scariest quotes is this:
"That is why I say there is a certain husband-wife, brothers thing, where you have an ability to agree, resolve issues, a fundamental respect, admiration, good feeling. All that lets you make one plus one equal three."

I didn't know Ballmer had a "husband-wife" thing going on with Bill Gates.