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2008-03-31

 

FedEx Account

I'm finally back from my "secret trip." What's there to welcome me? An unexpected charge from "FDX."

I guess that's partly my fault. I opened a FedEx account for fun, although I have only used it once. When I used it, though, I wondered the security of their system. To apply charges to your account, all you need to do is to write down your account number on the envelope. What if I wrote down a random account number instead?

Turns out there doesn't even need to be any malice. When I called FedEx to straighten things out, I was told that it was because "the computer has mis-read the account number." What a convenient reason...

2008-03-21

 

Job Market

Even though I haven't been actively looking for new opportunities, I have been contacted directly by recruiters of two large companies to see if I'm interested in joining their advanced techonolgy groups. And I thought this is the start of a recession, where the job market is supposed to be shrinking.

In case you're interested, of the two companies I'm talking about, one has made an unsolicited bid for the other...

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2008-03-17

 

Staying Alive

That's right. Haven't been updating the blog for a while, but nothing bad happened to me. I am just on a "secret" trip.

But still, I have something to complain, so I can't keep myself silent during the trip. I took United Airlines for the trip. The plane was old, but that's no excuse for their horrible landing. No only it sounded like the plane crashed to the ground, it was so bad that the projector (right, the plane was so old that the only movie screen is from the projector) fell off from the ceiling. If not for the power cord that kept it hanging from the ceiling, someone would have their head broken. And on my way to leave the plane, I saw several other projectors hanging from the ceiling too...

Another bad service was their meal, though part of it was my fault. I ordered a low-purine meal, which turned out to be a vegetarian meal. I guess they just serve the same meal whether you ordered any of those meals: low-purine, low-fat, low-salt, diabetes, jewish...

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