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12.2.2001ok, so i'm doing my least favorite thing in the world, which is cleaning up the debris after excite @ home absolutely crapped itself. and i have been trying to cancel the service, which is like trying to figure out who _really_ won the last election. and i have my email address in literally _hundreds_ of places, which means that this is going to be a long and tedious exercise, changing my old email address out for the new one. so i finally get it together enough to fix the home network and reinstall my palm pilot (yeah, that crapped too) and get the printer reinstalled over the entire network and everything else, and i'm at the point where i decide i'm far enough along that i can notify all the recruiters with whom i've been working that my email address has changed. so i make a polite little email and bcc it to everyone (hate to do that but it's over a hundred headhunters, so i can't make it as personalized as i'd like) and send it on its way. no sooner do i receive _my_ confirmation copy than i start to get bounces. bounces and bounces! some domain names were no longer even recognized. not good. mostly though, it's just that the mailer daemon doesn't recognize the user name. that's a little better. still, it's over 10% churn since just a _couple_ of months ago. wow. no wonder i didn't get hired certain places; the recruiters probably weren't there long enough to even get the deal done. would also explain why all of a sudden i just no longer hear back from people. even though i did just get laid off, people are calling me for gigs, and that's a good sign. also, another really good sign is that the junior type positions - junior developer, junior project manager, etc. are starting to re-emerge. those are always good signs. job requirements are getting a little more general, too. you're still seeing the weird ones, like that hogan deposits developer position that no one can fill because everyone else in the civilized world uses something better. barring no other terrorist hijinks, i think things are going to really pick up come the spring and just explode out of the gate come the summer. this little fairy hopes so, anyway!
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