The job hunt continues. I've had an interview with amazon that didn't go well. Some kid screening for a group he didn't even work for (and didn't even know what group it was) asked me to explain how to write a function to compute a fibonaci sequence and make it efficient – over the phone. Theoritical crap is boring. If it's going to be used, fine. Proving you can make code efficient over the phone is abstract screening at best. The interview was a waste of time for both sides.

I'm now talking to a company up in Seattle. It's a startup, which is worrisome. I'm not crazy about dragging my family to Washington and then having the company fold on me in a year. On the bright side, if it does fold, there seems to be a lot of positions in the Seattle area for open source developers. That's better than being out of work in Houston, which has nothing.

I'm still holding out hope that something in Colorado will open up. In the long run, that's where I want to grow old. So it would be useful to get a job there and establish myself now instead of having to pick up and move again once more somewhere down the road. But in this industry you have to go where the jobs are. Right now, the jobs are in Seattle, not Colorado (unless you have a security clearnace, which I don't). We'll see what happens. The in house interview is next week.