April 2, 2007
Blog Entry on the Monday 02nd, April, 2007
Brendan is 32 today.
Allyson is 33 today.
Connor is 2 years and 23 days.
Years ++;
April 3, 2007
Blog Entry on the Tuesday 03rd, April, 2007
Bronze Wedding anniversary today. Allyson and I have been married 8 wonderful years.
Linux Kernel in a Nutshell
Blog Entry on the Wednesday 04th, April, 2007
Linux Kernel in a Nutshell
Available for free download Linux Kernel in a Nutshell book.
New Periodic Inspections Team in Croydon
Blog Entry on the Saturday 14th, April, 2007
Training a new PI Man.
Bait and Switch.
Blog Entry on the Monday 16th, April, 2007
I am feeling grumpy today. I applied for promotion in good faith. I was directed to look at the advert - however I did not take anything for granted and spent a lot of time writing the application and preparing for the interview.
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I was not offered the job that was advertised. The process in my opinion was not handled well. I was offered a position with a lesser job title then my current role, no details of the projects but an increased salary. I declined this offer.
Maybe, just maybe I am in a bad mood because I was not up to scratch. However all other feedback from internal and external colleagues give extremely good feedback on my competencies.
Heck good points. I still have a interesting and challenging job. I have relatively good job security - 157,000 lights or Traffic Lights at 6,000 locations need maintenance and are not going away. It is fast paced and fun. I get solve more problems in a day - rather than spend years on non-delivering projects. I have built up a very strong team and working partnerships with contractors. We are delivering record levels of Traffic Signal availability.
Dear Readers - always remember that an interview process is bi-directional. If I come across as poor in a interview - then I expect not to be offered a job. If the management of a interview process is poor, then that is going to affect my decision.
Glad I got that off my chest - time to move on.
Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum.
Blog Entry on the Monday 23rd, April, 2007
Wow 25 years. I have very fond memories of the Spectrum. The first computer I ever used. Dad brought one, (he was an earlier adaptor as well), it was amazing. Fantastic idea by Sir Clive Sinclair, in my opinion the TV-Out was fantastic.
Dad wrote a program, "BINGO6" which turned the spectrum in to a Bingo machine for the local pensioners at the social club.
I have very fond memories of programming on it. The BASIC was wonderful to use and I even in later years did some minor machine code. The jump from 48k of memory to my low spec 512M of RAM is more than a jump.