I had a phone call this morning from a recruiter regarding a PHP position, and a meeting this afternoon with another recruiter (the one thefrenchmaid put me in touch with). The meeting went well, and he thinks that he might be able to help given my experience and knowledge. *fingers crossed ( Read more... )

hico is picking me up around noon to head off to Montreal for Con*Cept for the weekend, so I really should be packing. Not to mention doing laundry. But I got home around 10:30 and had to return a phone call, then make dinner. Normally I might have tried to get home earlier, but I was trying to finish up something at work and so didn't leave the office ( Read more... )

... but first things first.

I had intended to go to bed relatively early last night. I was tired after a busy week, and I wanted to be able to get up early today, spend a leisurely few hours with the newspaper, and then head off to the Anticipation gathering/BBQ ( Read more... )

In last night's wrapup of humourous items I'd come across yesterday, I neglected to mention the backpack that I saw on a young man leaving Finch Station just as I was walking in after work last night:


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As seen on Robert J. Sawyer's blog: Asimov's 30 Laws Of Robotics.

And I forget where I saw this - after all, I've read about 500 emails and 300 friendslist posts since getting home Monday night - but here are some Lambdacats. If you're a programmer, you'll probably laugh out loud at least once. (If you aren't, you won't get any of them...) I ( Read more... )

1. Go to www.google.com.
2. Enter the search term "Find Chuck Norris".
3. Click "I'm Feeling Lucky".

Swiped from mencc1701:

When Advertising Firms Catch Teh Stoopid

And now to bed. *yawn*

I just have to share this ( Read more... )

Following a link from the aforementioned lolcats page, I came across this image and thought you might like it:


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It's rather disconcerting to turn on CBC and have the first thing one hears be that Paul Martin has been penalized for hooking in Ottawa. Of course, it was this Paul Martin, who plays defense for the New Jersey Devils, not the Paul Martin who is the former Prime Minister of Canada. Whew, dodged a bullet there...

Even more amusing is LolTrek, a ( Read more... )