lemming!

Today is Setting Orange, day 3 in the season of The Aftermath, 3167.

I AM 46% GEEK.

I probably work in computers, or a history
department at a college. I never really
fit in with the "normal" crowd. But I have
friends, and this is a good thing.

Take the GEEK Test at Fuali.com!

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"You are worth exactly: $1,781,590.00. We hope you can find somebody who is wealthy enough to afford you."

http://www.humanforsale.com/

Today's job site rant

<Cartman>I. Am. So. Pissed. Off. Right. Now. Kill you guys. Kill. You. Guys.</Cartman>

So, I found a promising posting for a web editor off a decent job site (http://www.ajb.com/). Went to the "how to apply" section, and found the link to http://www.1-allusjobs.com/ Okay, fine. Not registered there, so I fill out the new applicant information and hit "Apply". I'm presented with a gray screen that says only "Error - Parameter is incorrect.". Sna? (At this point, I'm thinking "Hmm, I got exactly the same error message with brassring.com, wonder if they're the same folks?"). Okay, whatever. I go and log in an discover that in fact all my resume information has been saved in their system. That's good. But about my job application? Nada. Big fat zero. "Your resume has been submitted to 0 positions." Try again to submit my resume for the job using my already-saved information and get the same damn error. And naturally there's no indication anywhere of who is actually the hiring company, so I can't do an end-run around this crappy ASP application that won't let me apply for the damn job. To make life even better, I sent an email to the address for questions or comments, and Netscape didn't bother to update my identity, so I sent it from the address I use for Usenet posting rather than the one that's dedicated to job hunting.

job site rant, part the second

Just for giggles, I tried the site again using IE. Guess what?
The fscking application only works if you're using IE.

Sure, you can make things work only in IE if you're writing an intranet application where you know for a fact that your entire audience will all be using NT and IE version whatever, but you just can't do that for an internet site. Just like those folks who don't test their pages in anything other than IE and don't realize they forgot to type </table> and people using other browsers are presented with a lovely blank page.

How is it that these people have jobs and I don't?

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Without comment, except that this is a direct cut and paste and I didn't change a single thing about it.

TITLE: editor,website conte
SALARY:  5.15 per hour
no phone calls please! interested applicants may mail/fa  x or email resume and
three (3) writing samples to empl   yer listed suite 800.position requires
applicants to ha   e ultra-sharp editing and proofreading skills,preferabl   y
for a website.demonstrated knowledge of ap style,abil   ity to work well with
others under deadline,handle mult

Okay, just one comment, I can't help it. I've never seen any company that needed an editor/proofreader more than this one.