Yesterday I saw a truck driving down Thong Lo with Osama bin Laden mudflaps. I almost fell off the motorbike. I’ve seen bin Laden merchandise here before, but mudflaps?!

Seth writes that job interviews are a waste of time, I’ve been saying the same for years. The whole hiring system, at least in the UK, is fundamentally flawed. It measures how good candidates are at interviewing, nothing more. I’ve worked mostly in IT, so I’m more than well aware of the irony of testing the people-skills of programmers.

References are almost as amusing – “Please give us two telephone numbers we can call to hear good things about you. It would help if the two liars we call from your local pub can at least pretend to have some technical knowledge, but if they’re worried about that then they can just pretend to be management. Don’t worry, we won’t verify who they are or anything, that would involve a degree of effort”.