A friend sent this to me in an email. I’m not sure where it originated from but decided to post it, for the benefit of all. Most of these are so true (some painfully). It’ interesting, as I read each of these a particular person or persons from work popped in my head immediately. Most shared more than one category.
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It’s funny how time can make you second guess yourself. I mentioned the other day about my interview with IBM. Well, at the time I was pretty confident about how it went (regardless of my leg falling asleep, and having to hobble out like a cripple). However, since then I can’t help thinking things like “why did you say that?” or “why didn’t you say that?” I remember at what point he asked me to describe a technical problem I faced at work recently, and how I resolved it. So what was the best thing I came up with? Fixing a printing problem (UGH!!!). I’m sure he was VERY impressed. Naturally since then I’ve thought of quite a few things I would have preferred to mention. Well, not much I can do about it now. Still, I may as well hope for the best. I guess what they say is true, hindsight is 20/20.
Apparently some “friends” of mine registered a profile for me on www.blinddatetv.com. Naturally I knew nothing about it till I received an email, thanking me for “registering with blinddatetv.com.” <sarcasm>I’m thrilled to say the least.</sarcasm> Ah, the joys of being single.
My Professor from last semester, Phil Windley, was featured in a local newspaper article about Wi-Fi security. It describes the wireless antenna he built out of a pringles can back in December, which he mentions here. He also commented on the article.
I didn’t find the article as interesting as I did the comments made about the article. Most people seemed to think the article would promote attacks on wireless networks. I’d argue that anyone capable of attacking a wireless network wouldn’t find anything in the article they didn’t already know. I think it was meant to make people aware that the neighbor kid next door is capable of snooping their insecure wireless lan, more than anything. If so, despite the authors lack of complete understanding of the technology, I think it served its purpose.
One person suggested solving the problem by enabling “WEP,” implying it was 100% secure. That was about all I could take so I decided to throw my two cents in.
As for myself, I admit to having a wireless LAN setup in my apartment and I have to say I love it. I love the freedom of being able to work on my laptop anywhere I want. I enabled WEP to keep away the casual leeches but I’m not under the impression it provides me with any security. I look at it this way. If someone wants to sniff my network traffic, fine. Any information I want private is encrypted and I’ve taken the time to make sure I don’t have any “open” network shares. So, for now, that’s good enough for me.
I’m anxious to build my own wireless antenna and sit in the courtyard of my apartment complex just to see what I can pick up. Actually, I’m right against the mountain so maybe taking a slight hike to get a better perspective on the valley would prove to be an interesting experiment. This probably won’t happen until after the semester is over though. Well, who am I kidding, I’ll probably end up doing it in the next week or two (priorities!!).
In my blog reading this morning I came across an entry quoting an all time classic movie. Anyone who’s ever worked in a cubicle or ever had thoughts of taking a bat to a piece of office machinery or been forced to sit through company “pep rallies” needs to see this movie. Hell…everyone should see this movie. Anyway, here’s a link to a WAV file for the quote.
There was a career fair on campus last week. There were quite a few employers there but I got the impression that many were there just to make an appearance and not necesarilly recruit. In fact, these days “recruiting” seems to be the wrong term to use. Pan handling seems more appropriate. The scene from the career fair was an enormous crowd of desperate students looking for any job openings. Which reminds me, I had to smile when I noticed virtually no one approached the KMart booth :). Come on…we’re not that desperate (not yet anyway). Anyway, I passed my Resume around a few places and talked with a few companies but nothing looked very promising. As I was leaving I gave the Navy Officer recruiting booth a second glance, but decided I’ll wait till the end of the summer before I consider that.
I was surprised when I got a call the next morning to come in for an interview. It was with a relatively small company, but they’ve been around for a while (yes, I’m being sarcastic). Overall I thought the interview went pretty well. They were recruiting for positions in Boulder, CO, which I wouldn’t mind moving to, but they indicated that the college graduate positions probably wouldn’t open until March (if they have any at all). So I guess I’ll just wait and hope for an invitation to visit Boulder in March.
As I said, I thought the interview went alright. However, it wasn’t what I’d call perfect. I crossed my legs as I was sitting (left leg resting on my right knee) and towards the end of the interview I uncrossed them. I was horrified when I realized I couldn’t feel my right leg, at all (no tingling, NOTHING). Fortunately I regained enough feeling to make it out of the interview, but with an obvious limp. How embarassing is that? Anyway, I’m keeping my fingers crossed (but not my legs, I’ve learned that lesson).