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Day: April 12, 2010

To all potential interview candidates…

Posted on April 12, 2010 By admin

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.

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Fuck the DVLA. Seriously.

Posted on April 12, 2010April 12, 2010 By admin

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.

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The top 40 websites accessed from the UK

Posted on April 12, 2010 By admin

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.

  1. google.co.uk
  2. facebook.com
  3. google.com
  4. youtube.com
  5. yahoo.com
  6. bbc.co.uk
  7. live.com
  8. ebay.co.uk
  9. wikipedia.org
  10. twitter.com
  11. blogger.com
  12. amazon.co.uk
  13. msn.com
  14. linkedin.com
  15. wordpress.com
  16. guardian.co.uk
  17. flickr.com
  18. bing.com
  19. microsoft.com
  20. dailymail.co.uk
  21. paypal.com
  22. imdb.com
  23. hsbc.co.uk
  24. telegraph.co.uk
  25. myspace.com
  26. livejasmin.com
  27. amazon.com
  28. apple.com
  29. mozilla.com
  30. virginmedia.com
  31. sky.com
  32. rightmove.co.uk
  33. pornhub.com
  34. gumtree.com
  35. timesonline.co.uk
  36. direct.gov.uk
  37. about.com
  38. 1e100.net
  39. skysports.com
  40. barclays.co.uk

In case you were wondering, 1e100.net belongs to Google, and is used for some YouTube functions as well as Google proper.

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