Archive for April, 2007

Buffet, buffet and shopping.

Had a nice outing yesterday with my friend, Maria. We went out for a brunch buffet at this hotel. Was good, and I walked away pleasantly full; on the way back to my place, we went passed Value Village and I thought it would be a great place to pick up a few clothing items [...]

WOTD - April 30th, 2007: Haplography

haplography (hap-LOG-ruh-fee) noun
Accidental omission of a letter or letter group that should be repeated in writing, for example, “mispell” for “misspell”.
[From Greek haplo- (single) + -graphy (writing).]
Mrs. Crispin, the sixth grade language arts teacher, spent an entire hour on the common mistakes made in everyday spelling. One of the things she [...]

2.5 Times More…. That’s Obscene!

Well, the Alberta Justice people got back to me this afternoon, after I had dropped off my Security Clearance check with the local RCMP division and gave me a job offer. Seriously, the money is freakin’ awesome and honestly, my word of choice has been ‘obscene.’ Really, I don’t think designing web stuff is worth [...]

Lead Candidate for Job Posting

As some of you know, just over two weeks ago I went to a job interview for a Web Developer position with the Alberta Justice division of the Alberta Provincial Government. I thought I had goofed up royally on the ‘testing portion’ of the interview, where I had to correct some HTML and CSS code. [...]