Sunday, March 14, 2004
Aw, man... Too many days since the last entry. Sorry. But I have a good excuse.
We bought a house! It's here. Note that it's really close to a mall, AND a couple of parks and a preservation area. It's a quiet, dead-end street, and the house itself is exactly what we were looking for. Detached, 3 bedrooms (so you can come visit if you let us know when you'd like to pop in!), nice little garden with grass, and decking for barbecues ... Ah, bliss...
So that's why I've not been too close to the computers - busy arranging the mortgage (which is now approved), the inspection (which is on Tuesday), the lawyers and so on. I also went for an interview on Friday, which was kinda weird. Well, the job more than the interview. It's a contract, through an agency, but I'd be working for Microsoft - get this - in SEATTLE. (Well, Redmond, but only locals and geeks know that). The odd thing though, is that they're looking for a Brit recently arrived in Canada. That sounds like me ... They want to "localise" some US-centric sites and pieces of software. I'd be testing them for suitability with a mind to publishing into the UK market. I'm eminently qualified for that, just have to convince Microsoft. I already convinced the agency :)
So things are moving at a pace, and we move into our new house sometime in the middle of June. Our household contents from the UK have arrived, a month early. This causes a problem, as we'd expected to be able to store them and deliver them to our new house just in time for the insurance etc to run out. However, the early arrival means we have to arrange additional insurance. I have to talk to the removal company in England, as the Canadian one are just doing what they were told. Anyway, we paid the UK company, not the Canadian one.
Spam remains a problem. Plenty of people still send out jokes and stuff to everyone in their address book, which is OK, but it means that everyone in their address book now has access to the details of everyone else in their address book. Not good. People - PLEASE - if you're going to mass mail jokes and stuff, put everyone in the BCC field. It protects you and your friends from potential virus spam attacks.
More later, whenever I can get to a keyboard!
We bought a house! It's here. Note that it's really close to a mall, AND a couple of parks and a preservation area. It's a quiet, dead-end street, and the house itself is exactly what we were looking for. Detached, 3 bedrooms (so you can come visit if you let us know when you'd like to pop in!), nice little garden with grass, and decking for barbecues ... Ah, bliss...
So that's why I've not been too close to the computers - busy arranging the mortgage (which is now approved), the inspection (which is on Tuesday), the lawyers and so on. I also went for an interview on Friday, which was kinda weird. Well, the job more than the interview. It's a contract, through an agency, but I'd be working for Microsoft - get this - in SEATTLE. (Well, Redmond, but only locals and geeks know that). The odd thing though, is that they're looking for a Brit recently arrived in Canada. That sounds like me ... They want to "localise" some US-centric sites and pieces of software. I'd be testing them for suitability with a mind to publishing into the UK market. I'm eminently qualified for that, just have to convince Microsoft. I already convinced the agency :)
So things are moving at a pace, and we move into our new house sometime in the middle of June. Our household contents from the UK have arrived, a month early. This causes a problem, as we'd expected to be able to store them and deliver them to our new house just in time for the insurance etc to run out. However, the early arrival means we have to arrange additional insurance. I have to talk to the removal company in England, as the Canadian one are just doing what they were told. Anyway, we paid the UK company, not the Canadian one.
Spam remains a problem. Plenty of people still send out jokes and stuff to everyone in their address book, which is OK, but it means that everyone in their address book now has access to the details of everyone else in their address book. Not good. People - PLEASE - if you're going to mass mail jokes and stuff, put everyone in the BCC field. It protects you and your friends from potential virus spam attacks.
More later, whenever I can get to a keyboard!
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