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Wednesday, 3 July 2002

I want to work... somewhere I can innovate. Where ideas count somewhere I'm doing more than taking stuff out of a database and showing it on a screen, taking stuff from a form and putting it in a database somewhere I'm not wasting my time keeping up with the bleeding edge somewhere 90% of the company isn't older than me and married somewhere my pretty extensive knowledge of Ruby, Perl, Cocoa, Linux, HTML, CSS, Crypto, Jini, Jabber doesn't seem useless somewhere that owning a copy of Stevens Unix Network Programming Volume 1 doesn't make me feel like an weirdo somewhere I can feel that someone has looked at something I've coded and thought "I'm glad that exists" somewhere Open Source isn't just a bunch of free tools to make use of somewhere I can play The Chemical Brothers and not be looked at strangely somewhere I don't constantly feel like I'm in a battle against the client somewhere I can make at least as much money as I'm making now somewhere I can go out with my co-workers on a Friday night somewhere that won't try to make me a manager, do sales or answer the phone somewhere I don't feel like in ten years time I'll be the next generation of COBOL programmer 9:41:45 PM