• Archive for May, 2007

    J2EE / Java developers needed… In Halifax…

    by  • 5/15/2007 • Halifax, life, work • 0 Comments

    The project team will consist of over 50 people based in Halifax – nearly 30 J2EE/Java developers, 10 Project Managers and around 10 Business Analysts. The good part is that the referral bonuses aren’t as horrible as usual; $2000 instead of a couple hundred The bad part is that they’re trying to find these Java [...]

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    Ninjas are to blame for so much these days

    by  • 5/14/2007 • humor • 1 Comment

    Fucking sand ninjas. When will they ever learn that it’s a vicious cycle; sand in their tabi boots makes them irritable, so they hide in the dune… Stolen from Warren Ellis who likely found it in the pub or something and then posted it on his Livejournal.

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    Oddities of Halifax

    by  • 5/12/2007 • Halifax • 0 Comments

    There’s the obvious things that you notice if you spend just a little bit of time here; the obsession with “Timmy’s” coffee, the way that people will look right through you when you speak, and then carry on as if you hadn’t, the seeming lack of work ethic, and the desire some 20 year old [...]

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    Dell Financing

    by  • 5/10/2007 • geek, life • 0 Comments

    Day 1: Credit approval has gone through, but now they want address verification… maybe the move looks funky on the credit report? Whatever… send them scans of things they request. Day 2: The lease document isn’t good enough; they only accept that when you’re only in the new place less than 60 days; after that [...]

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    New books in my local library

    by  • 5/8/2007 • geek, life • 2 Comments

    My latest obsession is audio books on CD; they’re ever so easy to load onto the old iPod, and listen to. I can encode the CDs and return them so that there’s no fear of keeping them past their due date. I’ve requested the series of Hitchhiker’s Guide books, with the exception of So Long [...]

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    I’ll never work in this town again!

    by  • 5/3/2007 • angst, Halifax • 0 Comments

    Photo by dariuszka — CC Well, I sent an email to that extras casting firm as I mentioned, and I’ve been assured that I will never work in this town again. They’ve been here for 25 years, and the industry is still young and fragile … I’ve replied to mention this time that I have [...]

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    Extras work is slave labour in Halifax

    by  • 5/2/2007 • angst, Halifax, insanity • 1 Comment

    Photo by VirtualErn — CC Ever try to feed three hundred starving extras who were told that a light lunch would be provided? Would your first idea be to simply order 30 large pizzas, for a total of 240 slices? Then leave them all, unguarded on a table with no supervision? The first dozen self [...]

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    Ye Gods

    by  • 5/2/2007 • atheism, life • 0 Comments

    Photo by the_anti_paul – CC Why is it so much easier for people to believe in ghosts and ESP and aliens than to believe in any of the Big Three religions? In one breath some will call Christians dogmatic fools who worship a dead man and follow up with kind words of Mother Goddess. Choosing [...]

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