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Tuesday March 2nd 2004 01:28 AM PST

So had a job interview today. It went as well as i think it could, but i really hate to hear someone start an interview with the words, "you're probably overqualified for this position". It made my heart sink. But the rest of the interview was good, or at least i thought it went well. The rest of the process was a 7 page test. This thing was no bullshit. All essay form questions, and some of them were really fuckin hard. Simple one was, Explain the difference between jpg and gif compression. When is an appropriate time to use each? Now the hards ones were a little more interesting. Compare and contrast the following: Inner Join, Outer Join, Right Join, Left Join. Problem is.... i've never really had any use for joins at all in my database building so far. I was fuckin clueless. Really fun one was a set of C code that included a basic data set. The question asked to write a function that would sort the data and return a comma delimited string. Easy enough, but i don't code in C that well. I went for the chicken scratch. I wrote it in PHP, cause it really never said, this must be written in C. There were a few good ones in there. Like write a database schema, and show arrows with relational elements. or Discuss the security risks and measures that should be addressed when deploying new servers. All in all it was a good experience, but i do have one regret. I've stopped writing with my hands. I've been typing so much now that my penmanship has slipped to somewhere around Neanderthal. Its honestly as if you handed a caveman a pen. So if anyone from over there is actually reading this while reviewing my site, please accept my apologies for the writing.

Bonus of the day:

Called into the courts to see if i needed to appear for jury duty. Don't have to show tomorrow, but i'm still on call for the rest of the month. Gotta check in next monday to see if i need to show next week.

I've also been video chatting a lot now with the isight. Jon and Jason both are on very good connections, and the image/sound quality is really good. Cheaper and easier than a phone call.