Chessington

On Thursday I went to Chessington for a meeting about a possible short contract. They liked the proposal and asked me to go ahead. I have a second interview for a full time post tomorrow though, so although I'm starting work I'm also preparing for that! It looks like the short contract may take an elapsed 3 months or so which may not be good if I'm supposed to be starting work somewhere else.

It rained all afternoon, but we got out for a walk late evening. Maria is trying to "push" herself to see if she can get back to work. 

I got some feedback from the company who run the on-line tests I was doing yesterday. They said that they were about to start testing Internet Explorer 8 but their software would work with IE 7 and Flash 10. I had pointed out that IE 8 was on general release now in my e-mail, something they ignored. Why on earth did Microsoft bother with the beta test program if there are arrogant companies like this out there!

On-Line Tests

Today I went to do the on-line psychometric and other tests for the job I am applying for.

The personality profile test went okay, I rattled through the questions without too much bother.

The mathematical and verbal reasoning tests were a pain: the web site being used insisted that I could not use Internet Explorer 8, which is annoying to start with. Then it said that I must use the latest version of "Flash" and gave a link to down-load it. The latest version of Flash is version 10. It then said that this was the wrong version.

After much messing around and trying different browsers I managed to locate (on the web) an old version of Flash for an old version of FireFox and was able to use that. While I was doing the first test a guy came to the door asking if we needed any trees pruned which kind of distracted me even though I didn't answer the door and Maria sent him away. That meant I ran out of time on the last question or two.

After I had completed the tests I sent an email describing the issues to the feedback link and cc'd it to the recruitment agency.

After I did the tests we went into Farnham to get some tile grout. Maria drove for the first time in weeks and had some pain afterwards but no where near as bad as it has been at times over the past weeks.