2008/08/13
... I use it close to 3x!
In response to Guy's admission that he uses our JIRA tracking system a fair bit (over 6600 times), I thought I'd check out mine:
18k and rising.
2008/08/17
For those of you unfortunate enough not to have attended BarCamp Leeds 2008, you will have missed this presentation that was part of Simon Wheatley's "my last project" talk. Well I say talk, but he was just introducing - cunning, I like it!
If the guys at Carlsberg were geeks and made music, it would probably be the best music in the world ... something a little like this:
Phenomenal ... I can't wait to see what others come up with at ukepedia.
2008/08/18
This would be a much longer blog post if I had time, but the brunt of it - the SEO industry is full of cowboys that try to suck your money in what is a fluffy science, trying to game the system to influence the outcome. Now not all SEOs are like that, but the vast majority are.
I'm not saying that making your site more visible to search engines is bad, but the goal of "I want to get x ranking for terms y" is. I don't know if the power of ranking is rightly left in the hands of the search engines, but it certainly doesn't belong in the hands of SEOs.
The majority of SEOs that have what I personally consider to be unethical objectives are spoiling it for the few that, in my mind, do good work.
This translates similarly over to recruiters - the majority of them are vultures ignoring how we operate and are just looking for a sale, regardless - and so I'm going to play them at their own game.
See the following response I got from a cold-emailer today:
Low Life Scum wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I found your email address online and want to inquire about any possible
> openings available at your company - Permanent OR Contract - that you
> are having difficulty filling and need outside assistance with.
>
> Please let me know at your earliest if my team and I can provide
> qualified Candidates/Contractos for your current IT Openings. Thanks!We're having problems filling an administrative role who can deal with the influx of cold calling vultures (aka recruiters) who seem unable to accept that WE DO NOT WANT TO USE THEM.
As such, we're considering hiring a permanent low-paid admin clerk who can waste as much of their time as they waste of ours.
For more details please see: https://www.adaptavist.com/display/ADAPTAVIST/Telephonist
Don't call us, we'll call you ... or said another way ... don't waste our time, or we'll waste yours.
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Dan Hardiker
Adaptavist.com Ltd
Let's see how this tactic goes ...
