You hear that, Mr Andersen?

Rates, Vader's Fist, Misc.

For those in the IT industry, you might find this site of interest: Candle Recruitment comparative wages. Note that it's not particularly well populated, but it's interesting to get at least some data - of course, according to this, I should be getting $65-75/hour, which would be significantly more than a 10% jump. Man, imagine if I could charge $120/hour! That's... $6k a week! Even in the top tax bracket, I could pay my entire mortgage off in just under two years! That merits multiple exclamation marks!!!

Anyhue - enough daydreaming about rates that, let's face it, would only be for short-term contracts, and that I'd be too lazy to strive for in any case. ;)

I've agreed to, and signed, an increase of a little over 7%. And now I don't have to think about it again until much closer to November, hooray! :)

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Those that follow Vader's Blog may be amused by the homepages of the 501st Legion, Vader's Fist.

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You know how a number of small, almost unnoticed changes can combine to cause catastrophic failure at surprisingly short notice? Well, that happened yesterday, when a very rare occurance triggered a cascade of events too terrible yet boring to be recounted here. :)

I've also been working on a set of tools that someone who's just left dropped in our lap. This wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for the fact that the front end of some of these tools are used by someone outside the company, and I don't know anything about the system, and it turns out the front end they're using isn't documented anywhere.

Argh.

Anyway, everything seems to have been sorted out. (I nearly wrote "soughted out", though why my brain thought that would be a good idea, I know not.)

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I seem to have a slight cold, which is inconvenient for an enormous number of reasons. I don't have time to get sick at the moment, especially on the weekend - I have obligations. :)

Oh, and something weird I noticed - given the nationality of my flatmates, it's kind of odd that the majority of the music I have with French lyrics is actually Japanese - Pizzicato Five and United Future Organization, for example. (I was going to say "practically all", but I remembered MC Solaar and Maurice Chevalier.)

Posted by svend at May 5, 2005 10:43 AM