Kristian Kristensen’s Blog

I just found this editor called e – TextEditor that promises to bring “The power of TextMate to Windows”. It looks pretty cool!
It uses the Bundles from TextMate, and hence can harvest from what TextMate cool. Luck has it that the author of e is also Danish

WS-Context becomes an OASIS standard and from there loosely coupled, scalable stateful and stateless interactions in Web Services are possible using SessionID elements in webservices to denote the context of the request. How about using continuations as the back-end, with the session id being the referrer to that continuation?
Or just the identifier for a Windows Workflow?
Obvisous stuff, but quite interesting.

This test is freaky: ColorQuiz. Try it out, and see how well it fits. I gotta say it fit quite well for me.

Anyway, people around me will know that lately I’ve pretty engaged in whatever an HR department might throw at you for a job interview. In that respect the above quiz presents a funny addition and reminder.

Enough rambling, go take the quiz

Joel Spolsky writes:

I just got back from a trip to Israel, having, in a fit of stupidity, decided that it wouldn’t be such a bad thing to take Air France and change planes at CDG. Nothing surprises the ground crew at CDG more than the arrival of the daily, scheduled flight from Kennedy. Every single thing about that airport is broken and it’s the worst place in the world to change planes.

That’s exactly the same feeling I had about Charles De Gaulle when I was visiting the US on a study trip back in March 2005. We arrived in CDG and nothing was normal. Waiting to board was done in half circles around a desk, there was no information what-so-ever and people were just standing around in big groups hoping that they were in the right place for their plane. It was completely like standing in a market some where with merchants screaming all over the place, and nobody knowing what’s going on.
Why does this strike me as typically French?

I’ve just read this article on ComputerWorld: H-1B visa cap reached in record time which basically says that the USCIS received over 150.000 applications for an H1-B visa allotment of 65.000. This amount was supposed to last for the entire fiscal year, but was all used up on the first day. Eric Sink blogs about his issues with the H1-B cap here. It also means that all applications will be rejected until next year when the new portion of H1-B’s are released
Given my situation with the job from Microsoft in the US this is bitter sweet. If I weren’t quarantined because of the 2 year residency rule of my J1 Visa I would’ve had to apply for an H1-B visa. However, you can’t apply for such without your graduation papers. I don’t graduate until July meaning that I wouldn’t have been able to apply until this date. Meaning that I would’ve never been able to enter the US for October ‘07. It’s amazing! I thought that the biggest difficulty would be getting the offer from Microsoft, not all kinds of bureacratic immigration rules. I thought wrong. So it is with a bitter sweet feeling I read that article.

All in all there’s quite a lot of bitter sweetness involved in my Microsoft Job Adventure. I’s a bit like the chicken and egg problem: if I hadn’t gone to the US to study on the J1 Visa with the 2 year rule, I would’ve never gone to the job interview in Redmond, and hence would never have been offered a job. Furtheremore, had I been offered the job and not been subject to the 2 year rule, I would have been busted by the already spend H1-B Visa cap.

Gives you something to ponder about…