Contents tagged with Rants
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Restricted access to Hotmail
Today when I attempted to connect to my Hotmail account through Outlook and Outlook Express I received the following exception message:
Task 'Hotmail: Folder:Inbox Synchronizing headers.' reported error (0x800CCCF6) :
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Your company has moved Mt Fuji eh? Tell me something interesting about that.
I've been meaning to blog some thoughts about how to manage the interview process from the point-of-view of the employee. I think that it's an important topic because, when I've read other people's writings about it in the past I think that they tackle it from all the wrong angles. I think that too many people will tell you how to play up to an interviewer but not how to extract useful information from them.
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One book; One CD
I'll have some time in the coming months to fill in some of my weaker areas in .NET. Remoting, WSE and Compact Framework are the 3 that could use with a refresher. Of course, whenever you are about to "go dark" you must take some good tunes with you so... I finally got around to purchasing a couple of things that I've been after for a while today :-)
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Load testing Christmas cards
Wow! It must nearly be Christmas again... I just received my first Christmas card:
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Poem: To A Friend Whose Work Has Come To Nothing
As seen on George Reilley's blog...
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Back in work; Excitement++
What a day... Today I accepted a position as a .NET Consultant and Trainer with Readify. Readify is one of Australia's best branded consultancies and does work with some of the country's leading businesses and agencies. This role not only gives me an excellent opportunity to work on large projects and gain hands on experience with emerging technologies but also has me working with some of Australia's most respected .NET consultants. The team members are listed here: http://www.readify.net/staff/default.aspx
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An elevator pitch for SOA
OK, so you are talking with a client and a couple of their developers when they client turns to you and says: "We've heard a bit about SOA, what is it exactly?". You've got 3 minutes... GO!
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The Road Not Taken
The Road Not Taken has long been my favourite piece of poetry because of its darkness and its deep sense of nostalgia. I read it whenever my life reaches an important juncture as I search for meaning and answers to unanswerable questions...
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The jobfront
Got back from holidays on the weekend and straight back onto looking for some work. I had a couple of interviews with companies this week which I've had pretty mixed feelings about. On the one hand there was some interesting work available (using different platforms, languages and databases).
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Free Web Hosting and Ferris Buellers Day Off
Because I will soon be looking for work I've decided to take this week off to do some "creative dreaming" about my future. What I've found is that there is a whole other world out there waiting to be tapped. In this week I've visited museums, art galleries and libraries in search of inspiration. I spent a lunchtime just hanging out in a cafeteria at a local university and I've enjoyed bus and train rides to places that I've never visited before. What a week... it's been great just letting my mind run free.