Vote for my SXSW interactive panel proposal

My session is Putting the Quality in Quality Web Applications.

Here’s the blurb:

A misspelled word, stray pixel or errant semicolon can erase your data, confuse your customers or put you on the front page of the New York Times. Learn what’s important when it comes to web app quality and how to make your site test itself while you sip margaritas.

This is going to be a presentation, not a panel. I’ll cover diverse aspects of web application testing — from CSS bugs to typos to buffer overflows. What are the most common problems? How can you fix them? How can you avoid them? How can your computer do the work for you—how can you automate as much of this as possible? Lots of demos, code samples, real-world best practices.

Lauren Caitlin Upton is an idiot

Apparently Lauren Upton is one of the 20% of Americans who don’t own maps. Or something.

From the Miss Teen USA Pageant (24 August 2007):

“Recent polls have shown a fifth of Americans can’t locate the U.S. on a world map. Why do you think this is?”

Miss South Carolina, Lauren Caitlin Upton:

“I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, uhmmm, some people out there in our nation don’t have maps and uh, I believe that our, I, education like such as uh, South Africa, and uh, the Iraq, everywhere like such as, and I believe that they should, uhhh, our education over here in the US should help the US, uh, should help South Africa, it should help the Iraq and the Asian countries so we will be able to build up our future, for us.”

Moving? Here’s where to change your address

I moved last year, and I had to change my address everywhere. As I did this, I kept track of where, hoping to make the process easier next time. Forgetting organizations is annoying.

The list I’ve compiled is below the jump. Where possible, I’ve included a link to the web page where you can make the change.

Please add general both categories of organizations and specific companies in the comments.

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Best recruiter story. Ever.

Tony is a UI engineer. He gets a lot of recruiter spam. Usually it’s related to his skillset.

This time, however, the recruiter was looking for a filesystems engineer.

They had this hilarious exchange:

Recruiter: We’re looking for somebody with 7-10 years of experience writing filesystems.
Me: The only person I know with that level of experience writing filesystems is Hans Reiser.
Recruiter: Have you worked with Hans before? Can you send me his resume?
Me: http://www.idiom.com/~beverly/hans_resume.html
Recruiter: You are too funny! We’re willing to let our developers telecommute but the state penn. wasn’t quite what we had in mind. Thanks for making me smile though :)