After dealing with the crabbiest kids this morning and coming across this Folger’s ad I considered pouring them each a cup of joe.

Funniest thing I’ve seen all morning.

Back in the day when I actually interviewed potential programmers, a spelling error on a resume was almost always grounds for a “no thanks” from me. This was particularly true for programming languages, such as spelling “COBOL” as “Cobol”. If you really knew the language, you could at least spell it in the right case.

Now I’ve been schooled. In an interview, it was pointed out to me that I had not one, but TWO spelling errors on my resume. Not just the wrong word, but an actual, bona fide typo. “Framwork” instead of “framework” and “documens” instead of “documents”.

I ran the spell checker on my resume as I thought I had before sending it out. It didn’t find it. I ran it again. Nada. I ran through the settings in the spell checker. On a whim I turned “Ignore words in UPPERCASE” off and tried the spell check again. Bingo. It seems that sometimes Word confuses Small Caps with UPPERCASE and ignores words it doesn’t want to spell check.

Moral of the story: Don’t get all funky with the formatting on your resume, it will only bite you in the end.

I had to register a couple of domain names through GoDaddy. I got a 10% off coupon code from ScoreADeal.com (GoDaddy coupon page).

Among the 80-gazillion other projects I have going on right now, I’ve started a new blog. Its called Lawn Nebbish. Basically, its intended as a humorous (or whiny) look into the nemesis that is my yard.

To quote:

Why on earth would I put up a blog about my yard? Well, I hate my lawn and I think it hates me too.