The beaver is a proud and noble animal
Notes from a bemused canuck
Dear applicant. Please, please, do not lie to me. I will find out you padded your resume with a few simple questions. Furthermore, saying that you have been a TA on a Java programming course and yet you are unable to answer some very basic questions will most certainly not improve my impression of you.
Slight embellishments, I can live with. Outright lies, you lose.
The DVLA assured me that they sent a letter to my GP last thursday. My GP tells me that they haven’t received anything. It’s been more than a month now, and I have the feeling that I’ll have to push back the course – again.
This is taking all the fun out of what started out as a great thing, and I am not amused.
UPDATE: The GP surgery just called me. Apparently the letter arrived last Friday. However, they have no record of the condition that the DVLA wants information on. This makes perfect sense as this is something I was diagnosed with in Canada, about 20 years ago. The practice manager is going to call the DVLA. If they want my Canadian records, I’m screwed because I had to cancel my health coverage when I moved to the UK 5 years ago so those records, if they’re still around, are probably archived in some lower level of administrative hell. If they want me to go for tests here, I might as well cancel my course because it’s going to be months before I can see anybody. This should be fun.
According to Alexa, these are the top 40 sites accessed in/from the UK. What’s interesting is that, aside from the usual suspects, there are two porn sites in there :) For some reason, this amuses me to no extent.
In case you were wondering, 1e100.net belongs to Google, and is used for some YouTube functions as well as Google proper.