One
As most of my friends and family know by now I’m searching for a job. In the course of doing so I have looked at a great deal of job adverts from a range of companies, most of which require some kind of experience. Now how exactly are non experienced people expected to get experience when you need experience to get a job in the first place?

You may like to point out that many companies run Graduate Recruitment Programs where you work in a range or areas within the company, but look close and they still ask for some sort of experience.

See why this bugs me?

Two
The other thing that bugs me is the login systems that are in use today. To put it simply there is no single login system that just works. The only one that comes close, and it pains me to say this, is Microsoft with their Active Directory implementation. I know that at the heart of Active Directory it is actually LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol), but does this mean I can use it with my non MS application and operating systems easily. No. Unix operating sytems have NIS, but this doesn’t have a reputation for ease of opperation (or security for that matter). Web applications don’t get away with it either. Try and set up a web site that runs two popular web applications. I bet that the two wont have a common login system, and I further bet that it wont be easy to get them to work together. PHP Users is a project set up to solve this problem, but no one seems to be getting ready to use it once it releases full release stage.

I await that day when I can install a program or operating system, and once told where it can athenticate I am able to login with the same username and password as all the other programs on that system. Or I may not need to login as it will pick up that I have authenticated, the so called Single Sign On. No messing about, just “Authenticate using ‘auth.exmaple.com’ ” and away we go.