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[09:20] Hello from Dublin
I'm sitting in Dublin airport on an eircom internet kiosk (with a browser agent of "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; SiteKiosk 6.2 Build 51)" and an IP of 83.71.63.166 in case you're interested). I'm sitting here because I came over for a job interview yesterday and I'm heading home now, post-interview.
The trip over was a bit of a disaster, I left London Heathrow at 1530 and got into Dublin airport 15 minutes early which was nice but unfortunately my bag didn't. It rocked up at 2249 after a getting drunk at the bar back in London and losing its passport, or that's what it told me anyway. I suspect the more likely explanation is that it's free-flowing straps got caught in the baggage transporting mechanisms and they had to send a trained ferret in to free it or something. Take note! Stick straps down with tape or chuck the whole damn bag in a pillowcase or something.
So anyway, I got my bag and got the bus into town and had Burger King for dinner because it was the only thing still open at 2350. I then walked up to my hotel. It was a very nice and quiet and not at all prepossessing. In fact it was so un-prepossesing that I walked twice around St Stephens Green before I finally found it - yay. So I got checked in at about 0008 and went to bed so I could be "fresh" in the morning.
I did get up on time and do all the morning things although I elected not to have breakfast, mostly because the hotel was of the opinion that breakfast was worth 14 Euros and I was not. Your probably better off on an empty stomach anyway - at least that's what New Scientist told me anyway.
The interviews (four of them) seemed to go well but I've given up trying to gauge such things. No-one spat on me or tried to bang my head against the table for speaking heresy so I'm chalking it up as a positive experience! At very least I met some really cool people, got some new books/authors to check out (Vernor Vinge/Rainbows End) and learned a few things about non-stateful firewalls and STP!
Fingers crossed....
[Posted at: 12/06/2006 17:20