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What I’ve been up to lately

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! It’s been ages since I posted, and that’s kind of bad. I just wanted to draw your attention to some work-related stuff that’s pretty cool.

Freebase, where I work, have just released full data dumps. This is [...]

California, here I come

I seem to be constitutionally incapble of avoiding that subject line. Sigh. I apologise.

In any case, it’s official. I’m moving to California in less than two weeks’ time.

I put off mentioning it here in some sort of fit of superstition. I didn’t want to jinx it. But back in [...]

Success!

I suspect someone at my old work has been reading my earlier post on How (not) to write a Perl job ad.

Take a look at these ads:

Current job ad on jobs.perl.org June 2006 (via the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine)

Compare and contrast this old description of the required skills…

You will need to demonstrate: [...]

How (not) to write a Perl job ad

By this time tomorrow I’ll be unemployed, and I’ve got no job lined up.

As it happens, I’m not in a rush to find another position. I’ve got some funds and some personal projects and travel to keep me busy until I find something that appeals. But of course I’m keeping my eyes [...]

Latest work/real estate related links

Nestoria announces the winners of their API hacking contest. I really love the secondhand clothes mashup: find Oxfam shops in pricey neighbourhoods, where there are likely to be lots of designer clothes donated.

Three random cool things I’ve discovered on US real estate sites:

Zillow have a property guide wiki on their site, which has [...]

Blogging about work: real estate linkage

Via London Perl Mongers (I seem to get lots of cool stuff from them), Nestoria are offering GPSs as prizes at Yahoo Hack Day for hackers who write stuff using Nestoria’s API. Viva la Web2.0!

Via O’Reilly Radar, Trulia have just released Trulia Hindsight which lets you watch the growth of US cities over [...]

I want this office.

Via O’Reilly Radar, check out Three Rings’ cool pirate-themed office!

We’re going through an office re-decoration at the moment. Wonder if I can talk the boss into this? And hammocks instead of desks — I hear the Royal Navy could fit each person into 18″ of space that way, which sounds like about [...]