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back at ya smiler (don't i seem young and hip!! - right)

Hope you feel better soon.

the royal touch is thought to accelerate healing.

thank you maam, i am truly honoured.

That's all i wanted to say.

Thank you and good day fine people.

perhaps i need to sit in front of it until this franzy overcomes me.

i just sit at the front page, look down the categories, can think of nothing in those i want and give up.

i shall try better next time yer maj!!

I've never got into this ebay thing.

i have loads i could sell.

i've gone on to try and buy something before and can never think of anything i want.

i suffer from chronic lack of imagination, that's my problem.

ahh that's so sweet and teenage that is.

i remember (vaguely) being a young college and uni student getting into all these "different" things and why?  ulitimately to conform to a rebel image,

oh irony of ironies.

i just like being a miserable conformist old man now.  it's requires little energy and is much more fun.

(the levellers things occured to me once too).

isn't it sad when your struggling to think of anything other than your offspring!!

I guess my wife may not have had a chappy to help her these difficult years but i know being so lovely she'd have found someone else.

my Mum might would not be here (not going into why but i saved her from a dreadful situation with my sick former stepfather).

a good mate who has been in hospital for years would not have had the one person who kept in touch.

a former partner might have not had to go through the pain i put her through when splitting when we were due to marry etc.

less chaos would have been caused in the local IT industry :-)

i read all this with great interest and neary came up with a reasoned arguement to state my case but..

other people have already said it and
i can't be arsed..

i think i'll just go back to my dirty dark pool (read what you like into that but you'll find that both tend to apply to deep pools) and chill.

byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

I've both volumes of fables and Y and reckon they are both very good.

not read top ten though.

what i want to know is..

has the game made any money?

i hope so because rebellion deserve to after all the investment to get their wickle paws on it.

http://www.sundaytimes.lk/030921/ft/16.htm

I found this interesting article about their origin.  says what i am trying to far more eloquently.

http://www.sundaytimes.lk/030921/ft/16.htm" >

interesting.

Hardly what i amm saying.

Given that i passed one of the bloody things to work at IBM post-grad, i'm hardly going to have some sort of intellectual fear of them am i.

The point i am making is that there are many attributes to consider beyond IQ that makes someone appropriate for a post, there are many forms of intelligence , as the academics you hold in such high esteem will tell you.

Retention, social skills and many other things can be classed as forms of intelligence.  An IQ test does not test these things.

For certain posts an IQ test is hardly relevant, sometimes you need to trust that the qualifiations they have will have requird a certain level of that anyway.

When i recruit staff for my team, it is not a primary concern.

not sure i agree.

i have worked at some good companies that do iq tests and some shit ones that do.

The same has been true for those that don't

In fact i think far too much reliance can be placed on such tests sometimes.

All good points.

I definately agree with dropping some of the shorter jobs.

I had a year off before uni when i was younger and had a few jobs during that year.  I have just dropped that year off my CV entirely.  Nobody has ever seemed to notice.

My current job has been a 3 year stint just this month.  The previous were a brief 3 month break doing some lecturing (bit of a change was needed at the time), 18 months ,18 months, 2 * 6 month contracts (which i only mention very briefly on CV),  18 months, 1 year.  So i've moved a bit,  I think many people do (my moves are not unusual for IT really).