This is an actual job application a 17 year old boy submitted at a McDonald’s fast-food establishment in Florida…and they hired him because he was so honest and funny!

NAME: Greg Bulmash

SEX: Not yet. Still waiting for the right person.

DESIRED POSITION: Company’s President or Vice President. But seriously, whatever’s available. If I was in a position to be picky, I wouldn’t be applying here in the first place.

DESIRED SALARY: $185,000 a year plus stock options and a Michael Ovitz style severance package. If that’s not possible, make an offer and we can haggle.

EDUCATION: Yes.

LAST POSITION HELD: Target for middle management hostility.

SALARY: Less than I’m worth.

MOST NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT: My incredible collection of stolen pens and post-it notes.

REASON FOR LEAVING: It s#cked.

HOURS AVAILABLE TO WORK: Any.

PREFERRED HOURS: 1:30-3:30 p.m., Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday.

DO YOU HAVE ANY SPECIAL SKILLS?: Yes, but they’re better suited to a more intimate environment.

MAY WE CONTACT YOUR CURRENT EMPLOYER?: If I had one, would I be here?

DO YOU HAVE ANY PHYSICAL CONDITIONS THAT WOULD PROHIBIT YOU FROM LIFTING UP TO 50 LBS?: Of what?

DO YOU HAVE A CAR?: I think the more appropriate question here would be “Do you have a car that runs?”

HAVE YOU RECEIVED ANY SPECIAL AWARDS OR RECOGNITION?: I may already be a winner of the Publishers Clearing house Sweepstakes.

DO YOU SMOKE?: On the job no, on my breaks yes.

WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE DOING IN FIVE YEARS?: Living in the Bahamas with a fabulously wealthy dumb sexy blonde super model who thinks I’m the greatest thing since sliced bread. Actually, I’d like to be doing that now.

DO YOU CERTIFY THAT THE ABOVE IS TRUE AND COMPLETE TO THE BEST OF YOUR KNOWLEDGE?: Yes. Absolutely.

SIGN HERE: Aries.

I was just Navigating through some websites to buy some computer parts . They had wonderful shopping cart functionality which i liked very much. So i was just looking for the software which such sites use to make shopping cart application. I came across a website which sells quality shopping cart solution. Its an Australian based company and they make Award winning shopping cart applications which can be used to some sites which need to sell their products online.

The cool thing is they also have free trial option so we can try it and if we liked it we then may consider paying them the amount for full version. from their site :

Ashop Commerce provides a turn-key ecommerce solution with it’s revolutionary online store building software. One of the worlds most easy to use web based administrations with award winning features allows the merchant to build an online store capable of competing with the webs most powerful sites for a simple, low monthly fee. Having helped 1000′s of now successful merchants, Ashop Commerce is the most intuitive shopping cart software in the world providing the most up to date and relevant advice you need to start or advance your online business.
Accept credit cards online, customise the design, features and all content of an online store by yourself within hours! Feel free to test drive our demo store’s to see the advanced functionality for yourself.

It was the first time i commented on Engadget. and it was for a reason. Though i read Engadget on my Google Reader . Today they had announced a lucky prize competition which only lasts for 6 hours and in the first round it gathered 9000+ comments ( 9459 to be exact ) .

The second round has begun and within 6 hours of its commencement it will be closed and the other round will come up with some other prizes.

I was amazed to see the comments filling the pages on these posts. All they want is free prize ha ah ( me one of them ) . Its being worldwide . Readers from all over the world are dropping comments . A single line comment would be more than enough. But dont be oversmart and drop more comments than one . They say they have monitoring robots. .

Well this was the post which has largest number of comments which i have seen till now.

The post is http://engadget.com/2007/09/04/the-hundred-gadget-giveaway-round-1/

lets see how much comments the second round collects — http://engadget.com/2007/09/04/the-hundred-gadget-giveaway-round-2-/

Today at my work i found out a very weird thing. It took me some hours to identify that this was the Windows XP limitation. Actually My project has long nested  folder hierarchy ( Organised java Packages ) . Today i faced problem that i couldn’t create a .java file in a package which had a long hierarchy and along with the .java file name it was exceeding 260 character limit and some kind of error was thrown. Later i found it was not my mistake but was a Windows XP limitation.

For Example say you have folders inside folder inside folder…. then a file. like C:\LongFolderName\LongFolderName\LongFolderName…..\afileName and if this exceeds 260 total character u will not be able to create the file name.

or else try creating a txt file having file name which is 260 character long. You wont be able to create it.

At the end of the day i was little happy and relieved but little tensed that i have to change the package names ( or remove some of them ) or put my project folder in C:\ .

I dont know how many of you knew this but i found it worth sharing.

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