Careful what you put in that resume

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Returning to work took on an unexpected meaning for an unemployed Australian man when the government's job network told him to apply to an agency looking for female escorts. The Australian Broadcasting Corp said an employment agency contracted by the government to help the unemployed find work matched the man to two advertisements seeking "Ladies of all Ages." "I don't think the government should be expecting jobseekers to apply for a job as a prostitute," the man, who asked to be identified only as Tom, told the ABC on Tuesday.

The ABC said the advertisements had been included in Tom's list of possible options by mistake. Prostitution is legal in some parts of Australia but strictly licensed.

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Ah, v-e-r-y i-n-t-e-r-e-s-t-i-n-g, but shtoopid. heh heh heh

Anyway here at home everything is peaceful and quiet. It is almost dull at times. No juicy scandals have emerged from City Hall recently anyway. Most of the action is in Washington where the Bush regime seems to be doing a good job at self destructing.

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Wed. 16 July 2003

Got interrupted yesterday so I did not finish which might be a good thing however I will attempt some sort of drivel here.

Saw the following item on the news this morning and wonder why the guy did not just sleep on the lawn or on the sidewalk.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - The heatwave sweeping Germany claimed an unlikely victim when a man sleeping on a roof to escape the high temperatures rolled off, suffering fatal injuries, Berlin police said Wednesday.
A tenant of the building found the 28-year-old still alive after his 70-foot fall, but he later died in hospital. The man had bedded down with two friends as temperatures neared 30 degrees Celsius (86 Fahrenheit) in the German capital.

The friends only learned of the man's fate after being awakened and informed by police.

"The man must have ended up on the steep part of the roof and fallen off," said Berlin police in a statement. His sleeping bag remained hanging off the gutter of the tiled roof.
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Somehow I think that guy's elevator did not go all the way to the top floor.

Anyway, not much going on at work this morning as the national network is handicapped by some sort of outage in Montvale which is effecting e-mail and some other programs. As a result I sit here dead in the water waiting for services to be restored. As of 8 AM PT they thought services would be back in 4 - 8 hours. Yikes! Scrabble anyone?

I saw another headline out of London this morning about "TV Swearing devasting communication skills". This reminds me of the time I caught a portion of one of George Carlin's shows on one of the cable channels in which nothing was censored. Well, let me tell you, I have nothing against using the f-word under certain circumstances when I am angry however that seemed to be the only adjective George Carlin knew and I quickly grew tired of his act. The constant use of the word took all meaning out of his routine although it did point out what an idiot the guy is.

And with that I am out of here...