15 03 2002
A couple pieces of news to share:
Hwan’s coming into Livewire on Monday to interview for a freelance position on a web site. He’s already gotten rave reviews from me as a coder despite Livewire’s habit of hiring people for what they’ve learned rather than what they know. A similar situation happened when I was working at the Spectrum Internet Cafe. Several people hired there had restaurant experience (which is a dime-a-dozen in a University town like Waterloo) and were taught to do tech.
The only people that lasted at Spectrum (and SGCI) were the ones who knew tech and were taught how to run a restaurant. My analogy was that it’s easier to teach someone who knows tech to make a sandwich than the other way around. Same with Livewire. I’m trying to convince them that it’s easier to teach someone who knows how to write good, clean code how to write JSP than it is to get decent programming out of an ITI hack.
As a result of the “Approval Process From Hell” over the last two days at work, I haven’t gotten a whole lot of time off to go see my Japanese family members visiting in Barrie. Monday (the day after Wrestlemania) I’ve decided to use a Vacation day. Unfortunately that’s also the day that Hwan is being interviewed so I’ll miss out on that. Tonight I made the trip up for the evening and got some photos of my two nephews to show off…
…which brings me to my final bit of news. My hosting server that I run theMediaman.com from has just been upgraded to 300 MB of storage. This is more than enough for me to post all my photos that I have taken from my digital camera. Since it’s coming up on one year since I bought it in Japan, maybe I’ll launch the photos section on the one year anniversary of my coolest toy.
Stay tuned…
