What's your job title ?

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Steve Lamb's Blog — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 19:14:30 GMT

James , Andrew Fryer (new SQL/BI Evangelist) and I were helping a charity to implement some infrastructure

re: What's your job title ?

andrew finkenstadt — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 03:10:29 GMT

Thoughtworks (the people that do Cruise Control, and Mingle, and other stuff like consulting) lets each individual contributor pick their own title for their business cards, with the proviso that you get to pick it exactly once until you are demoted to something like manager.

I often find myself thinking that if I went to Thoughtworks, I'd make my title "Lord High Everything Else." :)

--andy

re: What's your job title ?

jamesone — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 22:35:52 GMT

:-) Someone taking The Mikado ?

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AdamV — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 13:21:19 GMT

Mine's generallt quite boring but since I run my own business I do use variations depending on circumstances - CEO, MD, Technical Director, etc.

I do like the one Jeremy Moskowitz has (Group Policy MVP who runs GPAnswers.com) - he describes himself as "Chief Propeller-Head" which I think is great.

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Andrea Morris — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 19:45:38 GMT

Did someone really have the guts to put "God" on their business card? Thanks for the great list.

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jamesone — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 19:50:31 GMT

Andrea, I don't think it's on their the business card, just in the forms they field in.

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Melissa — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 02:18:21 GMT

If I were doing it now, I'd probably have to say "Conceptual Internet Cat Operator" (which is true, I actually operate a conceptual Internet cat, c.f., an actual cat, which are harder to operate).

Years ago, I used to put "Fixengrüber", which sounded teutonically technical in the same way that Häagen-Dazs hints of rich European ice-cream sophistication.

re: What's your job title ?

Melissa — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 02:23:42 GMT

Incidentally, what are those slashes doing in that mailto: URL on your business card? (See RFC 2368 <http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2368.txt>).

Is it humor? If so, maybe it's too subtle...

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jamesone — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 08:59:22 GMT

There are only 2 slashes and a colon - it might look like 3 in the photo here, (blame the phone camera) but card definitely has 2.

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Melissa — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 09:23:23 GMT

But the point is, there shouldn't be *any* slashes in an RFC2368 mailto URL. It's mailto:snafu@foo.bar.

re: What's your job title ?

jamesone — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 22:03:34 GMT

You're right. I have it correct in my e-mail sig, but it's wrong on the card.

{Darn, I know this - in one of posts about e.164 I said "By the way if you follow RFC3966 and make your phone number a link in the form with a URL of TEL:+44-1234-56789 (n.b. there's no // in the URL) people who have a supported dialer (like communicator) can click to dial." look at the card, and you'll see the TEL: is wrong in the same way}

But then...

I spelt evangelist wrong on the order and the printer got in touch to check. I guess they don't have the same understand of correct URIs as they do for correct English.

Moral of the story don't set the text for your card late at night.