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I didn't noticed it up until today. It was June 13 last Friday! (I'm usually lost at dates since I started working at home) And with that said, I would just like to enumerate the "misfortunes" that I had last Friday:

• Flu - It was very sudden. While I was working, I just noticed that my nose is getting heavier. Then out of the blue I just sneezed! And the rest is history.
• Fever - After an hour of having a nasal congestion, finally my fever broke out. Sent chills to my bones.
• Stiff-Neck - Now this I can really attribute to my greatest misfortune. I was sleeping when I tried to get up and drink some water. And on the process of getting up I just felt this excruciating pain at my neck. I was nearly paralyzed for an hour or so since every muscle movement causes pain to my neck.

I'm not that of a believer when it comes to fate and misfortunes. Though I have to say that last Friday was not one of my best days in my entire life...

I have just started on my new work! I really feel excited about it. Imagine working for a company delivering commercial-grade softwares. Where am I working now? ApexSQL!

So what is this company all about? Well some of you developers might've used their software way back to the VB6 days. They're specializing on SQL Server tools, ranging from Auditing softwares and Code Generators. My Manager told me that I would be taking part on one of their products, ApexSQL Edit, it's more of like SQL Management Studio but way much better. A lot more features (which by the way I am still exploring).

This is really my dream job. Creating commercial-grade softwares with a pretty much known company (they're a frequent advertiser on MSDN Magazine) and not to mention being compensated fairly. I will still be working at home (as always) and will just be coordinating with my Manager through MSN and Email.

It was a long road taken before I got this job. I have created an application in 3 days and answered 45 online technical (timed) questions. My application took a month before it was accepted but I guess all the wait was worth it.

I was about to download a source code that was uploaded via RapidShare. I'm not a frequent RapidShare user for I just seldom download anything there. So it has been of some time since I have been able to enter the site. I'm pretty quite familiar with CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) actually I was using CAPTCHA on my old blog. I know it's pretty quite helpful from Bot (non-human like spammer) protection. But I guess the CAPTCHA in RapidShare has just crossed some limits. Instead of blocking Bots, they seem to be blocking people with eye-problems or computers with very-high resolutions. Take a look at this and judge for yourself:

This is already an enlarged image. Imagine it on its original size (3/4 of the current size). Imagine looking at those cats and wondering who's sitting down. Actually I've been able to get this right after trying for 5 times! Why can't they just make it like Yahoo type Captchas. I guess their looking for users with superhuman abilities to be able to download from their site.

Can you guess the letters? Just post your answers in the comments area.