Last night, Sir Alan Sugar picked his Apprentice (no spoilers for those who haven’t seen it yet!) and here at Taptu, we think we may have found ours. Or at least we’ve found a new wacky person to join the team!

Dear Taptu.com team,

I have read your email regarding your search for translators and can tell you one thing: this is your lucky day! You have just found the most awesome prospective employee under the sun.

In order to avoid beating about the bush I will list a few reasons explaining why you should choose me:

1. I am such an amazing person. You’d love to meet me personally.
2. My English is more than fluent.
3. Polish is my first language. I personally believe anyone who knows Polish should be worshiped.
4. I am concentrating on my Modern and Medieval Languages degree atm, specializing in German and Russian. The last text we had to prepare in our translation class included sentences like “Sir Cathart’s eyes bulged out of his head” or “The college is swarming with bloody poofters”. This task definitely made me stronger.
5. I’m a loser and when I’m not translating, I sit in my room with the curtains drawn and browse the Internet.
6. Being a loser does not prevent me from being a fantastic team worker.
7. Even though I don’t have a degree in Computer Sciences, I have an older brother who does. He has taught me everything a blonde should know about computers. References available on request.
8. I have a laptop and I want it to marry me.
9. I am a poor, underprivileged student, living on baked beans. I need this money!! Otherwise I’ll starve!
10. I strongly oppose what’s happening in Tibet at the moment.

I hope I have managed to persuade you I’m the right person for the job and look forward to hearing from you.

Yours truly and sincerely,
K.

Seriously, how could we not invite her for an interview?

[Source: Basic Instructions - Thanks Gustaf!]

On Monday night, a few members of the Taptu squad attended MoMo London where Steve presented, talking about user interface design and the process through which we develop it. Some of you have asked for a copy of the slides we used, so here they are. (Tip: Set the presentation to fullscreen if any of it goes a bit fuzzy)

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For more multimedia of the evening, check out Alex Craxton’s blog for the nerdiest sword fight you’ll ever see!