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Yeah, the election day is tomorrow and nobody seem to care about anything anymore. Personally I’d like to see someone else winning then some Texan cheater, but hey, that’s not even up to me.

During this weekend talked to some other folk to see if I was right about the attitude I was getting from the Russian guys and was totally supported. Nice to see the business is not only about making money, but also about making a good impression.

Strange thing about other guys who bid on my project. Where it clearly states that the budget is fixed, they nevertheless put their own price on things. Fun part is they feel discriminated when I tell them I have a budget. Cheapskates.

Some teams are so anxious to get the job, once they get my e-mail, they started sending me their ideas on the web site WITHOUT EVEN HAVING THE SPECS! That’s funny, because if I don’t like their ideas I’ll turn to others and they don’t even want to have a chance to look at what I, as a client, may want. This activity looks like premature ejaculation of some sort. C’mon, guys, save it for a proper moment. You’d please much more then.

Continuing on a subject of carding. I have bookmarked the carders’ web site last year. Yesterday went to it – it’s still up and perfectly running. Either web hosters who keep the site on their servers couldn’t care less or there’s some major twist in people’s minds that I totally missed. I mean – no matter what they tell you about not paying by stolen cards you may as well be their next victim. Not sure if banks would go for this, but I have a plan. It sort of like hiring ex-hackers to harden security that they themselves had breached. Instead of paying high insurance premiums and reimbursements, why not secretly purchase all those stolen credit card numbers and silently alter the accounts affected. It would cost much cheaper then making up for it, at least from my prospective. It would also give banks the edge on alerting insecure vendors that they have security flaws. All in all it would benefit both consumers and banks. If any bank wants to implement such a security measure I’ll be happy to do the research for them.

Don’t forget to set your clocks one hour back!

This night must have been prelude to Halloween. I’ve got 11 Chinese asking for free hosting (with no apparent web site details) and one guy from New York who was so security conscious that he didn’t provide his return e-mail address… But hey, what can I do. People want everything for free and when you’re giving it to them – they don’t care to receive it. So much for good intentions.

Was interviewing another programmer for a web programming job and he (with an atrocious smile) told me over ICQ that he already saw the project I was hiring him for. Basically what it boiled down to is someone I interviewed earlier tried to hire him to do the project for me. I wonder, how big a chain could be. I myself currently working for company (let’s call them TCS for story’s sake), which, in turn, got a referral from BGS (I made that up as well), that happen to be able to bid on one of the positions for ITS (another made up name) who headhunts for IT at the company that I work for. So it’s a small link – Me->TCS->BGS->ITS->The Company… Given the salary I get, I wonder what would be written on the check I receive (if nothing happens, ofcourse) every two weeks if we’d eliminate at least two middle men…

What happen to those nice guys from Russia who used to produce nice quality work you can trust? 95% of people that are applying for work are either just don’t have a clue or just want to scam a quick money. What surprises me is the blatancy that they offer their service with. Like for example – I gave on of the designer a test job, to see what he’s capable of. He brought me something he called “design“, that I was making when I was in kindergarten. I told him that “client didn’t like that, because it’s not even as good as a template”. His response was “Hmm… I thought it would suffice, but the client seem to be smarter then I thought”. Gee, I wonder what he was thinking to himself?

Alright, it’s getting dark and scary outside, so I’ll head to the subway. My mp3 player’s battery died, so I would have to sit and think of all the nice things I could’ve done if I had a little money to invest in my business… something around $100, 000… angel investors, where are you?