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[enteirah]

Typical, I fire up Semagic to post something to LJ thinking I've not done so in waaaay too long, and it's unable to connect again. What big Russian political event is going off this time?

Annnnyway, nothing too exciting to report really. The job still trundles along much as before, though I do keep my eyes open constantly for new opportunities, but I'm desperately trying to avoid recruitment firms now as they were predictably useless. I have been extending my search further Eastwards too, as I have spotted I seem to have a lot of friends around the Leeds area these days, and it would be nice to live a little nearer to them.

The longer days are setting in, which is certainly welcome and makes the flat lovely once more (that brief heatwave the other week was gorgeous in here!). I am planning to do a bit of repainting to cover up some of the mould from the winter and make it as good as new. Knowing my luck, I'll just get that all sorted then end up moving, but I may as well make the effort. =:P

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[porsupah.livejournal.com]

Trouble with LJ today? Can't say I've noticed anything awry, personally, and I've been catching up with two days of LJ (I usually try to read LJ at least once a day, if not more - it's possible to catch up more quickly, of course, but I've found - even aside from the lack of timeliness - that winds up risking LJ fatigue, and either skipping replying to entries you might otherwise chime in on, or dropping them in a "for future replies" hopper, which might take a long time to work through..) - but with the clustered nature on LJ, it's possible for one bunch of users to see nothing wrong, and another unable to do much.

It's continually disappointing to me just how uniformly damned useless recruiters are. There have indeed been a couple exceptions (one dealing in embedded development, another in gaming, though they've not been so hot of late - before this position, I should note. I've no intention of leaving this project unless it's finished or my brain melts), but very few. I'd advise just trawling the JobCentre's listings - it can be a bit painful, with the mix of vague job descriptions that sometimes leave you wondering just what kinds of technologies they're looking for anyway, and the way a lot seem to be phoned in, with predictable mangling of some of the letter soup endemic to the industry (C++ seems to come in for a lot of abuse - quiet at the back, there - getting transmuted into C quite often, leaving companies sometimes apparently looking for C/C programmers), but importantly, quite a lot of the postings are placed by the employers themselves.

The longer days, even if unaccompanied by warmer weather (though, at least generally drier), are indeed most welcome. If I'm in the office, I can head out around 5-6pm, and spend a little time in one spot, where there's often one bun to be found, reasonably tolerant of onlookers, and then head into the fields, where the National Trust's kindly recently laid down gravel along a part of the path that, back in December, had been prone to getting very muddy. Still a lot of humans and dogs around thereabouts, though, but sometimes I hit a quiet spot. Might be worth getting there early in the morning sometime, though that has the obvious trouble of involving being up even earlier in the morning.

[avon-deer.livejournal.com]

Good luck with the job search.