A Post About How I Haven't Posted

June 11, 2008 01:41 PM

It seems like it's been about a month and a half since I posted anything substantial. Which is sad, because I actually do have a nice long backlog of programming stuff I could post about. No, literally. I have a text file of about five or six topics I could write about.

Plus I could gripe about how Dungeons and Dragons 4th Edition turned the game into WoW.

I also considered posting about all the new header photos I've put on the site... mainly to give credit where credit is due. I'm not a narcissist, I just keep finding pictures begging to be tweaked into header images among other people's photos. (Like Charlie's picture of me in costume at MTAC, or Liz's random picture of me in the hall at MTAC, or Crystal's photo of me at the Knoxville Zoo.)

So, there's credit where credit is due. Also, if anyone needs some similar graphics for their website, I'd be glad to take a look at their photos and see what I can do. (I'm looking at you, Nathan, with your new site design. :P)

Also among potential blogging topics was the rantworthy call I received from a recruiter yesterday. He cold-called me about a developer position... because he found my name and my company listed on the ETNUG site. And so he called my company, and somehow eventually got to me... after going through my manager.

Which is awkward, since I'm about to start a new job, and have sworn that it's an opportunity that sort of fell into my lap and I wasn't looking. Which is true, but a call like that would make it seem like it wasn't.

So, yeah. Professionalism and confidentiality. It's awesome.

Anyway, that's a summary of what I could have been posting. Except I guess I just did, if greatly summarized.

I can technically blame preparation for MTAC, or preparation for a recent cookout at the house, or the fact that I'm about to start a new job, or the fact that I've had a lot of offers for contracting work (outside of my normal job) recently. And I'm going to blame the fact that I'm going to be on vacation in Florida next week for the fact that it'll probably be another two weeks before I actually post anything.

There. I have absolved myself of all responsibility for my laziness, despite the fact that posting about how you haven't posted is bad form in blogging.

Comments

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Gabriel • June 12, 2008 12:24 AM
I had a recruiter cold call me at jtv. he squeezed my cell # out of me, so immediately after hanging up the phone, he called me on my cell. Once again, at work. I ignored the call, so he sent emails to my work account. How he got my name, work number, and work email address (though he could have guessed that by naming convention) I don't know, he wouldn't tell me. I was planning on blowing him off anyway, but now I boycott the company.

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Dylan Wolf • June 12, 2008 01:00 AM
Yeah, he was pretty persistent. Not that persistent--that's actually kind of scary. Like restraining order scary.

He asked me if I knew anyone else, and so I did end up referring to Mike and Nathan for the heck of it... that was an interesting discussion because he didn't seem to remember or grasp that they were also listed on the ETNUG Members page.

I don't remember what company he was from, but I did happen to write his name down.

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Michael Neel • June 12, 2008 08:56 AM
Yes, and he cold called me at work - no shame in dialing my current place of employment and asking was I happy here. My play, and I highly recommend it, is to say "let me ask around and get back to you - do you have my email? Send me the info."

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Dylan Wolf • June 12, 2008 10:48 AM
Sorry about that. Not that he probably wouldn't have called you anyway. :/

Professional groups like ETNUG are great for networking (as well as learning what other people in your area are doing)--you just don't want people discouraging employers to support organizations by abusing them like this.