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Hmmm – where HAVE I been? Well, the answer to that question is “right here!”. I guess the more accurate question is “what have I been doing?”. One of the things I’ve been doing is restarting my homebrewing. It’s been going very well indeed – incredibly enjoyable work producing 4 batches of beer, 1 of [...]

I was at a job fair recently and met a very enthusiastic HR person from an interesting company. Actually, if the truth be told, I went to the job fair specifically to make contact with this one company. One of the things I’ve found annoying about job fairs is that they’re losing some of their [...]

Flashback time… cue the wibbly-wobbly screen effects… I’ve been in Toastmasters for just over a year now and greatly enjoying it. When it came time to elect a new executive for my club, several of the more experienced members suggested quite strongly that I take the post of VP Education. Now something like that takes [...]

What is it about replying to a job posting that means it’s impossible to spot a typo in your cover letter, even if you read it through a dozen times? However approximately two seconds after you hit send (you know – at the moment when the “sending” progress bar hits 95% and disables the cancel [...]

Just got a job application rejection from Elastic Path Not my first rejection, I guess I shouldn’t be too upset by it… but I am! Via a convoluted path (a workmate of my wife is a friend of a project manager there) I got a “we’re looking for developers” email. Phoned up the project manager [...]