August 2006
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Company Secrets
I realized that there are so many things in the IT industry that are intentionally left in gray areas. That includes list of clients, systems infrastructure, softwares, and other technologies. That’s not new. Everyone who have taken economics 101 should know that trade secrets are very important to have an edge to competitors and protect [...]
Firefox Crop Circle
I always thought that crop circles are fake. They are created by humans — NOT aliens! A team of Firefox fans made a good example on how crop circles are made. From planning to execution, the Firefox Crop Circle team even spent a great deal of time documenting the process on creating the crop circle [...]
I’m “Taken”
I got my first job. I think it suits my desire to learn SAP R/3 and its related technologies. I will start my job as a regular employee (yup, no probation period) effectively on September 1, 2006. So, the “salary discussion” interview I was expecting was not a salary discussion at all. It’s already a [...]
Behavior-based Interviews
This week, I had several interviews and what really challenged me were behavior-based interviews. One stupid answer could ruin all your good points. The interviewer would throw a lot of questions to you in order to analyze your background and tendencies to behave in work environment. The questions were designed to know how you have [...]
Blog Presence
If you are a blogger, you probably want to read your friends’ entries and put some comments in their entries, or perhaps spy on their entries and see if they have some interesting topic. I tried to hop from one blog to another, but it is just very inconvenient. Visiting 10 – 15 blogs each [...]