I'm sure it differs per industry, but in my area most employers want 40+ hours a week from contractors. Therefore, somebody only wanting to work 10-20 hours a week wouldn't even be considered for the job.

Why is this such a hard concept to grasp? I just don't get how some people think that healthcare coverage should be a choice. Do they think that cancer is a "choice"?

Sometimes companies won't touch the code at all unless it's a BSD style license because of various legal reasons. Personally, I'd rather see companies using BSD code with the possibility of some of them releasing there changes than having companies not use the code at all because it's GPL'ed.

UPnP; I use it mainly to connect to my mediatomb server. It works really well.

Your post resonates with my own thoughts on the subject of software interviewing. I've talked about this subject at length with a few colleagues several times over the last few months. I know a senior guy who holds several patents that didn't get an offer because he "failed" an interview because he couldn't answer some obscure question about embedded programming. When I got out of school with a graduate degree and a strong background in software, I still had to answer bullshit questions like "what will the output of this function be" etc. I basically didn't get an offer because I couldn't figure out what a format string in a printf statement would do. Normally, I would figure it out via "man printf". These days, I'm the one doing the interviewing and I'd much rather ask conceptual questions and talk about what a candidate has done in the past than to ask questions that are easily solvable using Google. I use Google, Wikipedia and StackOverflow all the time to find answers to questions about C++, Perl and Python. Is it fair to expect a candidate to have all that information at their fingertips?

That's why I put them in quotes; but buzzwords help when speaking to manager types... ;)

Reminds me of the quote "In Chaos Lies Opportunity"... Sounds like a perfect opportunity to become a "value added" employee by "leveraging" your past experience and introducing "proven best practices" to your current company.

Sorry; meant to mod +1 funny, but selected "redundant" by accident.

It's still there, just not shown be default. Right click on a heading in the playlist; click on "Show Column->Last Played".