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Daily Archives Friday, October 2008

Another Reason to Network

The layoff parade continued this week with cuts announced by several companies. I won’t call out all the names; you can find them listed on Techmeme pretty quickly.
Having been riffed twice during the dot-com era, I cringe whenever I hear about layoffs. For me, getting laid off was a lasting lesson that forever changed how [...]

Posted 17 October 2008 † Jake § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Lazy Days…

I’ve done almost nothing since arriving in New Zealand. I’m staying with friends and I’ve managed to busy myself chatting and playing with their 7 month old baby. She has a cold so I’ve been used as a human tissue and yesterday I got covered in projectile vomit. My arm, shirt and foot got a [...]

Posted 17 October 2008 † Tim... § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

My interview from Open World posted

While I was at Oracle Open World 2008 in September, I met Ignacio Ruiz and agreed to an interview with him. Ignacio is the person behind www.databases-la.com which publishes database-related content aimed at the Latin American community and he also blogs at oracledisect.blogspot.com. As a result, most if not all of his content is available [...]

Posted 17 October 2008 † Dan § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °