| snail | local staff member on our internal blog "On a bit of a tangent, if you want to annoy/amuse a computer person you can try asking them what a Linux is. Is it a type of big cat that lives in central Asia?" | 01:29 |
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| ibeardslee | heh | 01:35 |
| snail | ibeardslee: sorry i missed you on the bus the other day | 01:43 |
| snail | ibeardslee: i only noticed you as you were getting off | 01:43 |
| ibeardslee | snail: hmm? wha? | 02:13 |
| * ibeardslee seems to have had brain fade from about 8:30 this morning | 02:13 | |
| snail | ibeardslee: if you didn't notice it it wasn't a slight | 02:13 |
| snail | :) | 02:13 |
| ibeardslee | re: ubuntu-nz.org I do vaguely recall someone going to talk to someone about that .. can't remember who it was | 02:30 |
| kcj | Ah. | 02:32 |
| ibeardslee | seems to be a fairly default page for eg ubuntu-cn.org | 02:33 |
| ibeardslee | I'll put it on my list of things to try to remember to do | 02:34 |
| kcj | So long as you don't forget where you put the list. :P | 02:35 |
| ibeardslee | have postit notes about 1/2 way around my 2x20" screens | 02:35 |
| kcj | lol | 02:36 |
| ajmitch | hi robert_ancell | 05:00 |
| robert_ancell | ajmitch, hey | 05:01 |
| ajmitch | how was your flight back? long & boring? :) | 05:02 |
| robert_ancell | yup :) | 05:03 |
| ajmitch | probably don't want it to be too exciting | 05:04 |
| === Veritay is now known as IcyPole | ||
| === IcyPole is now known as Veritay | ||
| ajmitch | morning | 19:16 |
| ibeardslee | morning | 19:18 |
| mwhudson | morning | 20:56 |
| chilts | morning | 21:02 |
| thumper | morning | 21:13 |
| === ojwb is now known as Guest12939 | ||
| === Guest12939 is now known as ojwb | ||
| hads | morning | 22:29 |
| kcj | Morning. | 22:43 |
| karora | morning | 22:57 |
| * karora idly wonders how fmarier is enjoying life in Auckland... | 22:57 | |
| ojwb | morning | 22:58 |
| Veritay | morning :) | 23:15 |
| thumper | karora: fmarier moved to auckland? | 23:18 |
| karora | Aye, he's working for Mozilla now. | 23:19 |
| ajmitch | oh nice | 23:22 |
| ajmitch | so there's another person we can bug about firefox problems | 23:22 |
| ajmitch | interesting timing, I just got back from UDS yesterday & have google recruiting spam in my inbox this morning | 23:25 |
| * ojwb had one the other day | 23:26 | |
| ojwb | perhaps there's a recruiting push | 23:26 |
| ajmitch | this email mentioned UDS by name | 23:26 |
| ojwb | they're very persistent given I've never responded at all | 23:27 |
| ojwb | mine didn't | 23:27 |
| mwhudson | ajmitch: :/ | 23:27 |
| ojwb | mention UDS that is, but then I didn't go | 23:27 |
| mwhudson | they emailed me at my @canonical.com address the other week | 23:27 |
| ajmitch | it's been awhile since they last contacted me, I probably haven't been active enough to get on their lists | 23:31 |
| lifeless | ajmitch: you need to get blacklisted | 23:38 |
| lifeless | ajmitch: e.g. ask a friend at google to put a note on your file that says <do not contact> or similar. Its very effective. | 23:39 |
| mwhudson | ah, that's a good idea | 23:39 |
| mwhudson | maybe i can ask _all_ the people at google to do that | 23:39 |
| mwhudson | kinda a reverse ddos or something | 23:39 |
| mwhudson | *all the people i know | 23:40 |
| lifeless | only takes one | 23:41 |
| lifeless | I whinged to, jaq, I think it was, after the Nth time around with 'yes, I will talk with you if you tell me your HR department supports telecommuniting' | 23:41 |
| lifeless | politely, of course, and I haven't heard anything since ;) | 23:42 |
| mwhudson | my line is usually "let me know when you open your wellington office" | 23:42 |
| ojwb | i don't think I'd want to telecommute for a large company where almost everyone else is in the office | 23:42 |
| lifeless | there is an akl one I believe. | 23:42 |
| lifeless | but marketing only | 23:42 |
| mwhudson | yeah | 23:42 |
| lifeless | ojwb: as soon as they have 2 offices, you're telecommuting already, in a sense. | 23:43 |
| lifeless | ojwb: for a single company, <= dunbars number, w/no telecommunity, I wouldn't want to be the odd one out | 23:43 |
| ojwb | sure, but it's different being a small group vs just one person | 23:43 |
| mwhudson | though i'm still happy at canonical so there's a large part of "don't call me, i'll call you" in there as well | 23:43 |
| ojwb | yeah, I was at eidos, and it didn't really work | 23:43 |
| lifeless | but once the company has to understand time zones and cannot-do-in-person, well, I think telecommuting is a huge win | 23:44 |
| lifeless | ojwb: you were the odd one out ? | 23:44 |
| ojwb | this was same country, but you miss out on a lot of stuff | 23:44 |
| ojwb | yes | 23:44 |
| lifeless | yeah, it needs to be cultural | 23:44 |
| ojwb | officially you couldn't even do it at eidos, but my boss just ignored HR | 23:45 |
| lifeless | yah | 23:46 |
| lifeless | first time around with google they pulled that on me | 23:46 |
| lifeless | I laughed, politely. | 23:46 |
| lifeless | my reply to their initial query was 'I'm happy where I am, and the things that make me happy are x,y,z,telecommuting' | 23:46 |
| lifeless | ... but if you think I'd be happier with you, please explain :) | 23:46 |
| ojwb | well, i'd be happy not to telecommute I think, though it might take a while to adjust as i've been self-employed or equivalent and worked from home for about 12 years | 23:48 |
| ojwb | not interested in moving country again though | 23:49 |
| mwhudson | thumper: you're enjoying recruitment issues too? | 23:54 |
| lifeless | ojwb: its exhausting | 23:54 |
| thumper | mwhudson: heh... kinda | 23:54 |
| thumper | mwhudson: are you trawling through CVs too? | 23:54 |
| mwhudson | thumper: no, just looking at twitter | 23:54 |
| thumper | heh | 23:54 |
| thumper | I guessed, it was a very quick response from you :) | 23:54 |
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