Archive for July 2nd, 2008

Scotland on Rails — three months on

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

A presentation by the JRuby Guys (Charles Nutter and Thomas Enebo) at Scotland on Rails.
This is a post that I’ve had sitting in my WordPress drafts since early April about the Scotland on Rails conference that I attended, actually the same weekend that Jane and I discovered that she was pregnant … so that made […]

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We’re just as lost as them …

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

Photo by barunpatro.
I spotted this quotation in an interview with Rob Flynn from the Californian thrash metal band Machine Head in the Christmas 2007 (vol 02, issue 06) of the Soundcontrol magazine Reverb:
The four of us need this release of anger just as much as any of those people who come to a Machine Head […]

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Job satisfaction

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

Photo by DCarlton.
I spotted this article in The Scotsman a couple of months ago and meant to post it.
A THIRD of people are unhappy at their work, with lawyers and bankers among the least satisfied.
But hairdressers are happiest, with a cheerful three out of five looking forward to going back to work after a […]

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