-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Oh, ok, an interesting concept. Haven't thought of a possibility like that. Greg On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 10:03:57AM -0500, John Heim wrote: > I took it to job interviews and used it to show off my web apps. I didn't > need a network connection because apache was running on the laptop. So > during the interview, I'd boot my laptop and show both my web app and how > I'd work with the screen reader. > > I started doing that after some people seemed kind of shocked to see a blind > guy show up for a job interview. Hard to believe but some people aren't > aware that blind people can use computers. I thought that showing them that > I was actually quite functional, maybe even fluent, on a computer would give > me a better chance. > > I even brought a cross-over cable and had dhcp running so they could connect > their PC to my laptop, get an IP, and run the web apps on their PC. All this > on a 150 Mhz laptop with 56 Mb of ram and a 6 Gb hard drive. And it wasn't > bad in terms of speed. The web pages took a little while to load, 2 or 3 > seconds, but that was easily explained. > > I thought it was a very impressive show but even so, I was looking for a > job for about a year. I was already working at the University of Wisconsin > at the time but I was warned I might be a layoff victim. So I had time to > look for another job. I think though, that the laptop was a big part of why > I ended up here at the University of Wisconsin, Math Department. They > seemed very interested in what I had done with it. > > I guess I can remove all that stuff now. I've been here for 2 years as of > yesterday. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup - -- web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGESA37s9z/XlyUyARAjCiAJ0ewrpnsv7372vE+vj4bGJHw9Eg1ACggtuI 1mH/vvKgJq2i7m+r4vPflRQ= =w91i -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
