Folks, looks like my yahoo acct got hacked. If you got any spam or illisit proposals from that acct, plz ignore.

I am moving. Likely destination: http://obligateaerobe.deadjournal.com/

[EDIT] You will probably only care if you know me in real life and want to keep reading my terribly infrequent entries! I will keep reading your interesting journals regardless.

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Work is looking for people again.
They want someone fairly senior, very good java or very good c/c++.
Anyone want a job?

They pay well, esp. if you have a foresight to ask them for it.

I had a chat with our brilliant sysadmins recently. Seems they are looking for a few good people.

So, if one of you strangers-who-read-this-journal would like a very well compensated job at a hedgefund in NYC, give me a ping.

Linux/Windows stuff.

Looking up Daylight Savings Time dates for various regions (work related). Came across this gem

"Jordan:

In 1999, Jordan decided to implement summer time all year round."

If you really must know DST rules, rest are here. http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/g.html

Interesting:

http://www.gladwell.com/2002/2002_07_22_a_talent.htm

Do you work for a place that promotes talent above all? What do you think about places like that?