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Hire quickly: Addendum, recruiters

Recruiters: Here’s the rules. The first recruiter to tell me the company name, and then send the job-spec gets to forward my details – if I think it’s interesting. No company name, or spec, no chance If you send my details without my OK, you lose. And I tell the company you are a loser

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Jailbreaking your Kindle, and putting new ‘screensaver’ images

A quick fun post for those of you with an Amazon Kindle – some instructions on how to a) jailbreak your reader (trivially easy), and then b) put your own wallpapers on there, so you get a more interesting ‘screensaver’. It’s really easy, no more than 20 mins and a couple of reboots/software updates. Most

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Booze at tech meetups

I was out last night at the The Big Xmas [bash] #, near Silicon Roundabout. It was a fun night out meeting various people, tech, business and recruiters. Oh, the shame though – I was wearing the same T-shirt as someone else – and, yes, I have indeed replaced people with small shell scripts. Now,

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Back from the coalface

I’ve been pretty busy in the last couple of years, first at Binweevils and in 2011, PeerIndex – hence the utter lack of posts, but as the note on my personal CV site says, I’m taking some time off between looking for my next role. This does give the opportunity to write more of PHP

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($me instanceOf ZCE) === true

Phew. That would have been embarrassing if I’d not passed my ZCE on Thursday afternoon (Jun 4th, 2009).

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