Are you male or female?: The man who came in third
Describe yourself: God has gone wrong again
How do some people feel about you?: Sometimes I wonder
How do you feel about yourself?: Its not going to happen again
Describe your girlfriend: Burning Joan
Describe what you want to be: Bacchus on the Wagon
Where would you rather be?: Reality Asylum (which is technically a cover)
What would you wear?: Stitching in time
Describe how you live: Inside the horse
Describe how you love: House of cards
Share a few words of wisdom: It probably wont be easy
Neil Hopcroft
A digital misfit
Looks like things are coming together for the next chapter…only got some paperwork to sort out now…more details soon, when I’m less tired and more capable of thinking and typing…
We believe he’s going to hell…that they’ll be stoking up the fires ready for him there…
Erm, well, I hadn’t really expected to be an extreme heretic…such is life.
The Dante’s Inferno Test has banished you to the Sixth Level of Hell – The City of Dis!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:
| Level | Score |
|---|---|
| Purgatory (Repenting Believers) | Very Low |
| Level 1 – Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers) | Low |
| Level 2 (Lustful) | High |
| Level 3 (Gluttonous) | Very High |
| Level 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious) | Very High |
| Level 5 (Wrathful and Gloomy) | Low |
| Level 6 – The City of Dis (Heretics) | Extreme |
| Level 7 (Violent) | Very High |
| Level 8- the Malebolge (Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers) | Moderate |
| Level 9 – Cocytus (Treacherous) | Low |
Take the Dante Inferno Hell Test
What about Sendo? They’re a handset manufacturer in Birmingham. They’re also rather confused, getting me to a face-to-face interview under false pretenses – the position was actually a UI position, not a core system position. I wouldn’t even have bothered with a phone interview if I’d known that…how come I didn’t figure it out until three quarters of the way through the afternoon? Still, they fed me a nice lunch, so they can’t be all bad. And the guys there were great, if a little overworked and new to it all…plenty of focus though.
Just what the hell do Teleca do anyway?
Time for some interviews…I had a phone interview with Teleca…I didn’t understand before I spoke to them what they did. I still didn’t understand after I’d spoken to them. Perhaps they’re not my kind of company after all. They seemed desperate to get people without really having a plan of what they were going to do with them. I’d rather go for something more focussed than that.
EPOC client
Work starts on the EPOC client. Its all looking good so far – the protocol is trivial, the UI complexity minimal, the wiring the hold the whole thing together shouldn’t take more than another couple of clear days…but I should probably go to the office tomorrow so not much will happen ’til the end of the week.
I wonder how difficult an EPOC port of an LJ client would be?
The fortune cookie
During the run up to the end I received a call from a guy I used to work with. He was wondering if I knew anyone with EPOC skills who could help out on a large project….so we arranged to meet up.
The meeting was a little more interview and a little less meeting an old work colleague than I had expected. That was no problem though, the best way to deal with interviews is to be relaxed enough that it doesn’t matter, its as much about whether I fit in with these guys as whether they think I can do the job.
Anyway, that all went well and I headed out with Will for a very pleasant chinese meal afterward…. normally I’m not into things like fortune cookies and had decided not to eat mine at the end of the meal. For some reason I changed my mind and went for it.
“You will find the strength to let go of the past this week”
Blyth Power rocked.
Off to Blyth Power gig in Reading – apparently there are two Rising Suns there, a bit greedy I feel when the rest of us have to put up with only one.