[Quote] “If you stop something after the first iteration, how many times have you gone round the loop? . . . if you’re talking to computer scientists they’d say ‘once’.”
Those crazies start counting at zero, too. [Quote]
Found in the comments on this blog entry by dave hyatt.
I nearly sprayed my monitor and keyboard with mountain dew expelled nasally when I read it. (ouch)
I just got a phone call from my first head-hunter. She’s sending me her contact info, and I’ll probably be forwarding my resumé to her this afternoon. We’ll see what happens.
Her agency is Game Industry specific, and she already knew a lot about the situation here. I wonder who she’s already talked to.
Edited on May 5th 2003, 16:59 by Hooloovoo
I wasn’t going to post about this for a couple of weeks, but…
Is anybody interested in hiring a web developer with 4 years experience in the video game industry? There’s probably going to be a blue-haired-freaky one available to start in early July, (or possibly sooner.)
Sucky way to end the week, but at least I got some warning.
Not having much else to do this afternoon, I figured this would be as good a day as any to make sure there was a recent archive of the contents of my company’s web server.
I fired up an ftp client, logged in and began transferring the contents of the web root to my HD. I’ve been babysiting the process, just in case the connection gets dropped (the server can be cranky sometimes) and I’m amazed at some of the stuff I’ve discovered thus far.
Product sites in multiple locations – backups of backup directories – crap from 1998/1999 that should have been deleted, (infact I was under the impression that it had been) – entire directories with names like europe.deleteme and wwwboard_est_mort which should probably go.
I’m currently downloading product patches that aren’t even supposed to be on the web server – that’s what the ftp servers are for.
I knew there was some cruft on the box, but I had no idea how bad it was. I’m starting to wonder if the 14GB I have on my workstation is going to be enough. Once this stuff is downloaded archived to CD, I think I’ll go in and start cleaning out the crap.
UPDTATE: I started this process at about 4:30 this afternoon it is now 10:40. I had to restart the transfer a few times because of our cranky webserver. (Not from scratch – just from the last file to get transfered before being dropped.) Final tally: 4.31GB used by 73,162 Files in 2,093 directories. I think I could easily cut that amount in 1/2 without thinking about it (by dumping the backups of backups, “working%20files”, “resource.frk” “_vti_cnf” and the like) I could probably reduce that even more by going through and getting rid of some of the other crap that doesn’t really need to be there.
Looks like I have a project for next week: the web-monkey version of spring cleaning. 🙂
Edited on May 2nd 2003, 05:43 by Hooloovoo
Here’s mine:
Edited on Apr 30th 2003, 20:35 by Hooloovoo
Or does the phrase “free pay-per-view movies” sound like an oxymoron?
And if you did actually look at my company’s homepage, you’d already know we’re not interested in selling advertising space to you, seeing as THERE AREN’T ANY ADS ON OUR HOMEPAGE.
Oh, before I forget, you can tell your buddies I’m perfectly happy with the size of my penis, and so is my wife; I live in an apartment, so I don’t need to refinance my mortgage; I have no interest in seeing horses getting it on with teen farm girls; and while I may deserve the house of my dreams, I’ll probably talk to a reputable realtor in my area about that when I’m ready to start looking.
Thank you for your time.
(Just a quick response to some of the spam sitting in my inbox this morning.)
Edited for clarity…
Edited on Apr 30th 2003, 17:00 by Hooloovoo
Chutta has updated the Raftng trip Evite. We’re postponing it ’till the middle of June. More info can be found in your inboxes.
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A coworker/buddy of mine sent me this link yesterday. I thought I’d share it with all of you: http://www.beaterz.com/
Here are a few of my favorites:
VW Shuttlecraft
A Bad Place to Park
The Bus of Irony
Ultimate SUV
I’ve been toying with the idea of taking some classes at the local JC recently. Mostly just for the hell of it as opposed to working towards a degree.
Okay, “for the hell of it” isn’t quite right. Perhaps “because I want to learn something new” is more accurate.
Anyway, we got a Summer/Fall course catalog from Chabot College in the mail last week. I think I’m going to take one of the evening photography courses starting in August. I may try to take a comp-sci class as well, but I didn’t see anything that interested me that I know I can fit in around my work schedule. Perhaps I should discuss that with my employer…
I’m not going to be a full-time student, but I will be learning something new, and that is a good thing. 🙂
Went to see Identity yesterday. Great movie. Really well done.
Not even going to bother with the spoilers tag. Just go see it.