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| HAPPY WEDDING DAY, BRENDAN AND SAM! | Date:Fri Apr 7 11:06:15 2000 |
 Congrats and best wishes from the whole UF crew to UFies aka rit and Thyla, who are exchanging wedding vows today.
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| NEW IN THE UF STORE...THE WORLD MAY NOT BE READY FOR THIS! | Date:Thu Apr 6 16:03:52 2000 |
 By popular demand, for all you evil geniuses in training. The newest addition to the store is a Light Grey t-shirt with Pitr's motto and face on the front, and "Evil Genius in Training" on the back. Get on over to the UF Store and snap one up!
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| [WebDiva D] APRIL GEEKFINDER SUCCESS STORY | Date:Thu Apr 6 12:36:50 2000 |
| My thanks and congrats to Chris M for coming thru in the clinch with April's Geekfinder success story! So, I've been in a bozo-position (read outside sales, non-technical) for quite some time. I've been doing some web development, PHP/MySQL for a while, mostly unpain, and primarily for fun. Having only a year or so experience, I was, to say the least doubtful of my career options in that direction. Was I wrong! Looking for a change, I, full of doubt, announced my availability via the Geekfinder/Dice.com site. Within a week I had three interviews, two offers, and at least a dozen inquiries. All of these offers have been for positions in web development, all of have been for higher salaries, and quite a few have been bery nice. As of today, I'm moving to a new job in two weeks. My new position is in a company with an environment I've been describing all day as geek heaven. Flex hours, big pay increase, creative freedom, real benefits, stock options, and a no-pressure position doing what I want. If I could, I would start tomorrow, but I have commitments to keep. I haven't been this excited about work in years! Thank you Userfriendly for changing my life! Chris M If you haven't tried Geekfinder yet, get on over there! Over 200,000 jobs in the database, and growing. I am always happy to get success stories from geeks and geek employers who have used Geekfinder. If you have one, send it to me.
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| [Illiad] DUST PUPPY AT BIG BLUE | Date:Wed Apr 5 15:51:43 2000 |
| This in from Dolphi5: As part of a renovation of the building here in Big Blue, Minnesota, we are having a semi-approved contest for marker art on the soon-to-be-demolished internal walls. Wind your way back in the maze, and you will find the visage of the lovable Dust Puppy staring back at you. I thought there should be some other representation of geekdom besides the over-used cubicle dweller D. Cool -- anyone at IBM Minnesota care to send us some photos?
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| SURVEY 2000 RESULTS AS INTERPRETED BY WEBDIVA D - PART III | Date:Wed Apr 5 11:22:32 2000 |
Coming up to final compilation of results, dear UFies. It's all number crunching.
Total responses to Survey 2000: 10,783...3 times more than last year.
Total number of UFies who made comments: 4012Of the UFies who made comments, here are some illuminating stats.
Number of references to:
PVC 5
Quake 25
Slashdot 50
Tech support 64
Sluggy crossover 100
This stupid survey 111 Number of repetitions of the word/phrase:
I am a geek/geek grrl 156
I love/luv UF 383
UF rules/rulez/rulz 64
UF rocks/rawks/rawx 85
UF is cool/coool/kewl 118
Keep up the good work 309
UF is my start-up screen/first stop every day 222 Number of UFies who:
commented in ascii characters 125
commented in Pitr's accent "am thinkink/beink/havink" 365 Number of UFies who pointed out "You twits! You didn't include":
My occupation 14
My country 30
My graduate degree 15
40,000 - 49,000 income range 74
A large enough comments field 88
Allowance for multiple OS selection 103
...I would like to take this opportunity on behalf of the UF staffers and especially the Marketing folk who created the survey to say, "DOH! We're sorry!" And this from my email today...
Dear WebDiva: I read the results of the character survey with mixed emotions. While it's nice to be at least rated in the middle of the pack, I'm a little disturbed that I seem to be somewhat less popular than the crud puppy. Perhaps there was some error in compiling the results, an error made perhaps by some Columbia Internet staffer who might soon be contemplating a career change? The Chief Gulp.
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| [Kethryvis] NEW COMMUNITY STUFF! | Date:Tue Apr 4 21:46:11 2000 |
Yep, Community is updated again... lots of UFies looking for other UFies in their areas, and a UFie-Call-To-Arms for ComicCon this summer in San Diego! What are you waiting for?! Go to Community and get all the info!!
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| [WEBDIVA D] UFIES TAKING CARE OF LOTD GODDESS | Date:Tue Apr 4 09:10:53 2000 |
This in today from Ardaniel...UFie extraordinary:Mirella, Incanus, and I, ably assisted by our friends Eric and Josh, are going to be taking care of Ciannait's food shopping, assisting in her personal care, and so on, as needed, until she's back on her feet again.Mir, Inc, and I live a block or so from Cian's apartment, and Eric and Josh live in the same complex she does, so this is definitely not an issue... we'll be helping as long as she needs us, because we all think she's great. Thanks Ardie, Mirella, Incanus, Eric and Josh!
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| [WEBDIVA D] STILL ON THE LOOKOUT FOR AN APRIL GEEKFINDER STORY | Date:Mon Apr 3 12:12:12 2000 |
If you have a Geekfinder success story, please send it to me asap. I guarantee your anonymity.
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| SURVEY 2000 RESULTS AS INTERPRETED BY WEBDIVA D - PART DEUX | Date:Mon Apr 3 11:25:24 2000 |
The question was: What characters would you like to see more often?  Yes, I know there are characters mentioned here that weren't on the list....see how we pay attention to your requests? Fave comments:
Great job, keep it up, and put my name in one of the strips.
I just found youseguys! I'll be back, and I bought the book!
A cameo of some famous physicist, to bottle up crud puppy.
Hey, I work in an accounting department - give me a break
Its only cuz I am russian, wanna see how you guys think.
A programmer would be cool. Make him speak in code.
Stef is from Microsoft isn't he?
Crud Puppy and AOL...a match made in Hell.
I enjoy the strip even if I don't always get the references.
Erwin needs to get stuck in some Lego Mindstorms
Hmm.. so hard to pick! Damn you for making me pick!
I love the customer calls. I remember being that dumb. Huh?
I especially like homemade beans, mmm. beans.. Still compiling results. More to come!
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