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If only I were younger, this would make a for a highly interesting and fulfilling career. Would probably have to brush up on my grammer and splelling somwehat.
Well done to who-ever does make it :) I look forward to some new stories.
could we also include lewd sense of humor and childish ideas, into the basic requirements please.
Why would you want to report on the bleeding edge of technology from Amsterdam of all places? You are aware that the Dutch in the Netherlands are actually not really great with IT, are you not? And I worked both there, and in the south of Limburg... On both occassions there were tons of people around the place who were either too bleedin' lazy to get the work done, or didn't even begin to come close to required brain functionality to understand what they needed to do... Loads of bullshitting and hot-air-selling, though!
Yes, I'm Dutch. Yes, I'm a Software-developer-trained-storage-administrator-project-manager-enterprise-architect-what-not. Yes, I don't give a rat's ass about the Netherlands, or indeed (apart from 3) Dutch people who live there or anywhere else :)
Now, come on with them downvotes
...and 500 years later, another race who had never known of mankind's existence, stumbled onto the devastated remains of Earth's once bustling civilisation.
Keen to understand what had once existed there, and even more intrigued as to how this once great people had vanished from the galaxy, they set about excavating through hundreds of feet of cockroach droppings.
Many months of fruitless search ensued until the day they stumbled onto a data centre.
It took their engineers many months more to coax something out of the scant remnants of data, but they finally found their answers to the question that had plagued their minds so long.
The head of the team stood proudly in front of the galactic media screen to announce their findings.
I will loosely translate what he said.
"Dear citizens of the inhabited planets and those in between. After sifting through many mountains of yummy droppings we have discovered what happened to the humans. The conjecture was right, they were indeed invaded by Mars and the chaos that prevailed was sufficient to cause the population to end it all. I shall now read you some of the man from Mar's statements, please ask your children and those of a weak disposition to leave the room....."
err I can't translate the rest as it seems to be gobbledygook.
Would have thought you just peel them off the bar floor at closing time.
For some reason the next bit of the sentence: "plenty of scope to develop serious investigative skills"
gave me immediate visions of a decent ale house with a looong line of pumps which will take some time to fully investigate, once past the debate about which end to start at...
Dear El Reg,
in case you are not aware: a tabloid is generally considered to be printed press on paper that is about half the size of a broadsheet. Therefore, it would seem that it still is not technically possible to be an online-publishing-only tabloid press.
Also, in case you weren't so aware, a tabloid press / outfit, is generally associated with sensational news. Not in the sense that the reporting is sensational, but in the popular sense of "sensational press".
Being that as it may, I wonder why El Reg would require fluency in English, seeing that it has a limited amount thereof itself.
Yes, I am the son of a retired hack who also performed the role of stone editor in his days, so I'm *very* picky when it comes to language ;) Oh and my primary language teacher was very picky as well, so... I learned from what I consider the best.
Regards,
Guus
Yeah yeah yeah, we all know 'tabloid' is technically a size of paper, but in popular usage, I think we all now what it also has come to mean....
Having said that, I used to wonder years ago, why very few 'serious' newspapers were printed tabloid size - I realise this has changed in more recent years (depending on your point of view of course)
A pedant writes...
'Tabloid' is not a paper size but the style of writing, even though people assume it's the other way around.
An annoying pedant adds...
'Tabloid' was a word invented to describe Alfred Harmsworth's original Daily Mail with its mix of stories, topics and pictures on each page. In serious papers, you'll have entire sections devoted to politics or international affairs. In a tabloid, you can have a political story, a weather forecast, a piece of PR shit about a celebrity and a bunch of news-in-brief stories about pets all on the same page.
A Greater-Pedant writes..
The word tabloid was not invented for this purpose at all, but is in fact substantially older. As the OED will tell you it is from the late 19th century originally the name of a proprietary medicine and later used as a generic term for any medicine in tablet form.
Apparently "the current sense reflects the notion of ‘concentrated, easily assimilable’." which may well explain the use of tabloid in relation to size of newspapers, given their smaller size.
An Even Greater-Pedant writes..
Tabloid was the commercial name of a medicine and it effectively i used in the same way that Rhomboid might be used i.e. shaped like a rhombus in tabloid we had shaped like a tablet. Bear in mind that medicines were given in various does in those days and as a tablet was easily digested tabloid inferred similar properties for the 'medicine' involved.
Sooo.. in later days tabloid basically means in small or compact form and / or easily digested.
So there we have it, the Mail is in compact form and easily digested! Errrr, i might have stumbled across the exception to the rule.
"in case you weren't so aware, a tabloid press / outfit, is generally associated with sensational news"
We're very aware of it :-) I love being accurate and in-your-face; it drives boring people mad.
"I wonder why El Reg would require fluency in English"
Editing is a PITA if the writer isn't fluent in the language. Plus, you need to be fluent to be funny, interesting and informative in your writing.
"I learned from what I consider the best."
Whom, mate.
C.
Dear Spork / Hen
I am writing in response to your job advert for a chick / vulture, which I saw on The Register.
I have many sober moments, where I can recollect instances of drooling over the latest technology, the photograph's of which I have attached in lieu of a relevant CV:- Me and my CBM Pet: me and my Amiga: me and my Dragon: me and my ZX81, all of which demonstrate I am deeply rooted in the world of frustrating little boxes of joy.
I have never passed myself off as an expert in this particular field, but I understand how plagiarism works in principle and am willing to learn the art.
My current remuneration is linked to my productivity. As I am mostly down the food bank, I'd suggest emailing would be preferable to contact by telephone.
I look forward to you swooping down and grabbing, what I modestly consider, this glorious feast of talent very soon.
Yours sincerely
Rol
P.S. can I book September off as I'm going to a music festival in late August and will still be a little delicate.
p.p.s. I have also attached forty pages of continuous feed printout of a word processing program I written in 6502 machine code.
p.p.p.s I don't think the authorities will allow me to enter America to work at your offices there.
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