IT Career Success

Jokes and Humor

A Test For Professionals

18 July 2007

The following short quiz consists of four questions and will tell you whether you are qualified to be a professional. The questions are NOT difficult.
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1. How do you put a giraffe into a refrigerator?
The correct answer is: Open the refrigerator, put in the giraffe, and close the door. This question tests whether you […]

Do you REALLY need email??

18 July 2007

No Email?????? ……….. An unemployed man is desperate to support his family of a wife and three kids. He applies for a janitor’s job at a large firm and easily passes an aptitude test.
The human resources manager tells him, “You will be hired at minimum wage of $5.35 an hour. Let […]

Microsoft Is a Little Bit Tender

13 June 2007

Someone in the comment of The Dog and Tiger’s Evil Fight in China asked what is Microsoft called in China?  Here you are, Microsoft is a little bit tender.  Smart translation, isn’t it?  Here’s how the name is converted to a great Chinese brand.  Cutting the name “Microsoft” to two parts, “Micro” is translated to […]

The Dog and Tiger’s Evil Fight in China

12 June 2007

In the Chinese IT community, a hot, funny topic is about the fight between the dog and tiger for China’s territory. There is big argument about who is going to win the search engine market. Here the tiger is Yahoo, translated into Chinese by pronunciation as “elegant tiger”, and the dog is Google […]

Daddy, How Was I Born?

4 June 2007

A little boy goes to his father and asks “Daddy, how was I born?”
The father answers: “Well son, I guess one day you will need to find out anyway!  Your Mom and I first got together in a chat room on Yahoo.  Then I set up a date via e-mail with your Mom and we […]

IT is Not It

15 March 2007

A web translation firm wanted to sell translation service to me, so they sent me a page of my web site ITCareerSuccess.com that was translated to Chinese.  However, they translated “IT Career Success” to “Its Career Success”.  How ridiculous, IT is not It!
Why is IT not it?  Because things are transformed in IT:
In IT, the web […]

Computers were People, Managers are Not

15 March 2007

“What do you do for living?”
“I am a computer for the First National Bank.”
That was a conversation 50 years ago, when computer was a job title, a position for employees.
“Honey, How’s your day like?” My wife asked.
“Very busy, I worked whole day with enterprise manager to fix problems.” I answered.
In my job as database […]

Zoo Keepers: How Many Animals Do You Keep?

12 March 2007

In our office, programmers and system guys often joke about software, tools, and vendors named after animals. A fun game is to count how many animals we keep in our virtual zoo, - our PC. We found birds, cats, frogs, snakes, and more, very amazing!
See what we’ve had:

Toad - The SQL tool […]