I came across an advertisement today looking for Linux Engineers with a speciality in virtualisation, PHP/Perl/Bash coding, and VoIP. Interested, I looked up the mob that was advertising it.

It turns out there is a relatively swish looking recruitment firm called Super Coders. Of course, a little digging says its also called Flat Rate Recruitment - but that doesn’t sound anywhere near as appealing :)

So I give them a call thinking that they may actually be a decent company - and of course have to leave a name and number for someone to call me back.

They did call back, but strangely enough, the position advertised had already closed (or did it even exist in the first place?) and the only thing the person who called me back was interested in is getting a resume. He did mention another possible position, but wasn’t willing to discuss it with me - Just send in a resume!.

I believe this is what is wrong with the job sector at the moment. I remember my first IT position. I registered with a job agency and it was their purpose to get me a job! Now, it seems everyone harvests resumes to justify their existence and plop the first 20 that come out of their basic search to companies that actually advertise jobs.

Why the industry has changed so much is beyond me. Has the care by recruitment agencies disappeared that much that beyond collecting their fees, they don’t care about the real suitability of the person for a job?

Anyone else come across things like this?

I finally got my butt into gear and put up a page with the stats of my NTP server.

Check it out here.

I missed a bit of a cycle, but I’ve updated the DAPs available on my site.

Cycle is current as of today.

In protest of Telstra and their offensive strategy of recently sending all web browsing URLs to a third party in a different country, I have migrated ALL of the www.crc.id.au domain to use SSL encryption to keep spying eyes out of your data.

As Telcos have proven time and time again that they cannot be trusted to uphold the privacy of their customers, I shall be looking at migrating further sites as I get time.

After Telstra got busted doing this, a key quote from the CEO states: “We stopped the program immediately, as this was the right thing to do,” Mr Thodey said. I find it offensive that he only thinks that it is the right thing to do when they have been publicly exposed violating their customers privacy.

If you see any problems with my site (I’m pretty sure I have it all correct), please let me know!

So I’ve been waiting for this video for a long, long time as rumour was it was going to be fantastic. You know what? Fantastic doesn’t describe it.

When I first saw this video, I couldn’t stop myself from laughing. In fact, I haven’t laughed at anything so hard in a long, long time.

Well done Valve. Well done.