what's 1337?

Hello I am a geekess (I'm far too old to be a geeket)

I learned to program on a ZX81 and my first computer languages were pascal and cobol and BBC basic

I married a nerd and produced a baby geek, who was word processing on an Amstrad before he could walk and talk!!!

I now run my own website based business and love Google a lot.

I also have a BSc hons in Computer science, from the days when that meant I knew the difference between a Winchester Drive and a Mainframe.

I have always hated programming, but love pseudocode and flow charts!!!

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Originally posted by Nickyb_uk:
Just want to say SazBomb, you are so much like me its scarey. Just wish i had a job as good as yours. Mine is awful and i'm finding it almost impossible to find another one as all of them want qualifications that i havent been able to get since leaving Uni last year. Of cause living in Norfolk also doesnt do much for the number of jobs either.

Awww - always nice to meet fellow geekettes

I suppose all I can say is keep searching for another job. I had alot of trouble finding a job after I left uni... the thing I found was that they all wanted experience. Total catch 22!

I am 100% female, 100% geek, and I find the character of Jen abhorrent as a result *sigh* Could the show at least acknowledge that some women do know about computers?!

Anyway PhD in computer science here I come ... If only it were all still in BBC Basic eh squashedbanana?!

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Originally posted by SazBomb:
the thing I found was that they all wanted experience. Total catch 22!

I found a way around that by running my own web design/coding business.. Taking part in open source projects and volunteering to do work is also a great way to show you have experience in the right areas. I guess I was lucky too as I took on a whole ton of work as an undergrad, helped me through a couple of years in the real world before I returned to uni

While i was an undergrad i was fixing everyones computers and working for a couple of the departments at the university. The problem is most places either want an MCSA/MCSE and or experience in the latest version on windows server. I only got to look for someone in active directory so am kind of stuck prooving anything there.
Its the same with my web development at the moment. I've done a fair bit although my dynamic coding is a bit week, but everyone wants 2 years comercial experience, how are you supposed to get experience if they wont employ you in the first place. Guh

Right must stop going on about how bad my working life is or it will rule my free time. But if anyone knows of jobs comming up in Norwich I'd be glad of the pointers hehehe

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Originally posted by billie_jean:
what's 1337?

it's sort of a hackerkid way of saying elite...

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Hello I am a geekess (I'm far too old to be a geeket)

I learned to program on a ZX81 and my first computer languages were pascal and cobol and BBC basic

ahhh! basic and pascal i know... i used to muck about with basic at home on my amstrad... and pascal at school...

I'm completely clueless when it comes to techy stuff, but I like geeks! My best friend is one. He likes being friends with me because he can talk about science stuff and feel clever.

Feel free to do that with me, if you like. I'm not just dense at science, I am also dense at computing and maths!

Hello Dru, fancy seeing you here

1337 explained

1337 explained in detail

meant to post this in the last post but pressed the wrong button

Man.... gone for 2 days... and the forums explode :@

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Originally posted by SazBomb:
Hello Dru, fancy seeing you here

Hello Saz!

Didn't know you ventured out of the GBBF

I feel very underqualified here

Saz is a good loyal fan to IT crowd.... as you should be

I am, I am! I love IT (see what I did there )!

Am just out of my depth tech-wise...the fact that I've managed to switch on my computer means this is a good day for me

lol... do you know that that noise is the noise that it makes when it comes on

I know nothing!!!

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Originally posted by Drusilla:
Hello Saz!

Didn't know you ventured out of the GBBF

I feel very underqualified here

I do now and then... And not just on invasions either

Its ok, just blag it... I do

Have still yet to do an invasion!

It's all a bit mad and scary...like the *whispers* cricket forum...

The cricket forum dont much like talk of balls by all accounts

The lost forum hate us the most, thats always fun

But I don't know why the losties hate us!

I ventured a couple of times but then bottled it. They get very angry with each other if someone posts something when there's already a thread for it.

And they like roleplay. Roleplay, to me, is not something I would do online

Who hates the IT crowd members?

I dunno why they hate us either Dru, its most upsetting

They seem to take everything quite seriously - I always love the threads on GBBF trying to reslove some problem

LMAO at the roleplay