Well, consider this: I, as many others, use different identities for different purposes. So most likely, if you search for me, you will NOT find a major part of my forum posts if I only give you my name, educational and professional history.

If sb isn't communicating, it tells me exactly that. If the internet and business networking is an important part of his/her potential job, it would make a negative impression if the person doesn't even have a linkedin/xing/etc. profile. Don't try to link things that are obviously unconnected, like experience and online presence.

well,

1. afaik there's no direct contact info that's public on linkedin, so "day and night" seems a bit exaggerated
2. did you try putting "I am not looking for a job currently, so please do not contact me for this purpose" on your linkedin page?

that is exactly the kind of attitude that makes people employ those shiny half-wits that are good enough at impressing you on the interview, and do not have an online presence to speak of. And that are being let go after a while because they just don't get the job done.

while i do not have those drunk pics online, i believe that whatever somebody does in his free time is his own business. and that anybody who does not have fun during his studies misses the whole point of it ^o^

Even in a programming "language" as ugly as VBA, it is still possible to do proper coding instead of just scripting. I quote my boss at that time: "Why are you using more than one module? Why not put everything in one function?"

You may laugh at it, but for all those little tasks, even in a big corporation, MS Access is a good tool. It costs little, can be quickly developed and deployed, and you don't need an SAP developer for a few hundred bucks per hour. Of course, one needs to know the limitations and concerns: MS Access is only for smaller databases (up to 1M records in my experience), is NOT secure, and also not especially reliable. But for internal purposes, it can do a few tricks.

Btw, most of the code I had inherited from my predecessor made my eyes bleed. Needless to say, mostly I preferred to start from a "clean slate". That said, developing Access appz is not something I'd look forward to doing again :p

When will this happen. There were two features mentioned in TFA that make me think they are at least moving in the right direction:

Good thing that there are finally macros in .odb files - and shocks me that before, there hadn't been?! Well, last time I played with Base was some time ago, and I was appalled at the features (or lack thereof), being a former Access developer. TFA makes me want to play with the new version, see if it is at least possible to create simple applications with it.

Or the other way round, of course ;) From TFA:

So it could be inhabitable, it might have an ocean, and maybe there are aliens that look like E.T. living there. Maybe. But does it have a Stargate?

I, for one, welcome our new fridge overlords!

This dawning time of the ruling fridges gives the term Ice Age a whole new meaning...

Better even:

Well, if you ask the people, that's what you get ;)