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California, here I come

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! 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 [...]

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: [...]

The further you travel…

… the more Melbourne trams you find. Or something.

Trolleypup took me for a tour of San Francisco’s historic trolley collection, including this poor old girl — a Melbourne W2 class tram, like the ones I used to catch to school in the 80s, just before they were decommissioned. Flickr set here. [...]

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 [...]

Tyranny of Distance: Link roundup

A discussion else-blog in response to Part 1 of my series on why it sucks to be an Australian geek:

Mary provides further discussion of laptop price markups in Australia. Russell Coker describes (technically) illegal ways to import laptops if you really want to save some money. Mary points out that of course it’s possible to import [...]

The Tyranny of Distance: Part 2

Another couple of reasons why it sucks to be an Australian geek. The first article covered the high costs of bandwidth, hardware, technical books, and everything associated with domain registration and hosting. Now let’s talk geography.

1. What time is it, again?

Timezones are the first problem. When I’m at work, the US [...]

The Tyranny of Distance: Why it sucks to be an Australian geek

I’ve had the draft of this article kicking around in Wordpress for weeks now, and not posted it. I guess I thought it sounded too whiny. Well, yes, it is whiny. What’s more, having just quit my job and decided to go job-hunting overseas again, I now realise that writing this [...]

Open Source Developers’ Conference: Last day week (or so) to submit papers!

I just submitted my paper proposals for the Open Source Developers’ Conference, an annual event held here in Australia which brings together developers from a range of different open source communities and languages, including PHP, Python, Ruby, Java, Javascript, Mono, and I don’t even know what else. Even though I usually spend most [...]