Category Archives: Certifications

I used to play a lot of Dungeons and Dragons when I was young. Playing D&D makes you good at two things: reading rulebooks and filling out forms. You would be surprised how many places consider those valuable job skills … Continue reading →

If you’ve been following this latest dumb project, you might have noticed that I’ve taken a lot of Brainbench‘s Internet-related tests, but no programming tests. That’s because I am not a programmer. My formal programming training ends with some high-school … Continue reading →

Did you know there is no blood test for migraines? Instead, a patient who has really bad headaches have to list all his symptoms for a doctor, who compares them to a list of migraine symptoms; if the patient has … Continue reading →

I didn’t take any Brainbench tests yesterday, because I was busy working on a freelance writing assignment I picked up from my more-sucessful brother. Today, I had no coherant plan for what to test, so I grabbed a bunch I … Continue reading →

Yesterday, I mentioned that I had once been a search-engine optimizer. That was not a fun job; it was freelance position I found out about from a friend of a friend, and the people I worked for were just plain … Continue reading →

When I applied for a job as a technical support representative at Godaddy Software in 2001, their staffing agency made me take some computer profciency tests. (Apparently, having been a search-engine optimizer wasn’t enough to convince them I knew how … Continue reading →

For my second night of gratuitous Brainbench testing, I decided to start with something simple — “Telephone Ettiquette”. I’ve done tech support and political phonebanking (and done well enough at both), so I figured that would be an easy test. … Continue reading →

After being thoroughly underwhelmed by my local town fireworks (which were nearly upstaged by a private show in the the township nextdoor) I got home late last night and decided to catch up on my e-mail. One of the many … Continue reading →