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Hire quickly: Addendum, recruiters

By alister Posted on January 9, 2012 Posted in hiring, quick No Comments Tagged with hiring, quick, rants

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 …

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Jailbreaking your Kindle, and putting new ‘screensaver’ images

By alister Posted on December 27, 2011 Posted in fun, quick 1 Comment Tagged with kindle, quick
Jailbreaking your Kindle, and putting new ‘screensaver’ images
Kindle 'screensaver'

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’. …

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Booze at tech meetups

By alister Posted on December 13, 2011 Posted in quick No Comments Tagged with meetups, rants

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 …

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Back from the coalface

By alister Posted on November 23, 2011 Posted in fun, quick No Comments Tagged with funemployment, me

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 …

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($me instanceOf ZCE) === true

By alister Posted on June 6, 2009 Posted in quick, zce No Comments Tagged with funemployment, me, zce

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

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