With all the craziness going on with hiring now days, I thought that it might be mildly humorous to share the questions that I feel would really define a candidate.

Please feel free to add yours in the comments!

1. Are you a convicted (or potentially to be convicted in the future) felon?

2. Do you have a sense of humor?

3. Do you laugh at yourself often in the funny, not pathetic way?

4. Finnish this sentence: PC Load Letter _________

5. Do you drive a Buick?

6. Please say the first 5 curse words you can think of

7. If you had to pick one, what would you be?

a. Ninja

b. Jedi

c. Pirate

8. If you had a super-power, what would it be, and why?

9. How many push-ups can you do? Now prove it!

10. Did you find this list of questions demeaning in any way?

For those of you that have weathered the test of technological time, then the outage that occurred yesterday on Twitter was nothing out of the ordinary. Sure, the stakes have changed, but this event brought me back to the days of BBS’s and how it always seemed like when you really wanted or needed to send an email or get onto a conference that the BBS was down or all lines were busy.

We had DDoS attacks of sorts back then, just not nearly as sexy as botnets, mostly it was people trying to load up the modem banks and toggle the auto-answer off. Back then it was thought to just be comical to deface the ASCII page of the a friend’s site, and all-in-all it was good fun, but we sure didn’t make CNN back then. What has all this new media adaption done in regards to our dependance on communication? I believe it just has expanded it to a new cross-section of the world. The society of today is built upon 99% availability, and dependancy on the newest communication outlet is mind-blowing! Yesterday, one of the top news stories internationally was TWITTER BEING DOWN!

Amazing.