Posts Categorized: Ramblings

The Other Side of the Fence

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I felt I needed to write this, as we have been interviewing for a bit in Cognitive Match, for various segments of our technical team and we had occasionally bad luck with the candidates who turned up. Having been on both sides of the recruiting fence in my life, I realise that a certain percentage […]

Spelling Lesson a la California :-)

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Time to review my English writing skills it seems — either that or do some research on this new type of berry out there, probably only specific to Northern California I guess : STAWBERRY!!! (Related by any chance to STRAWBERRY I wonder, or just a simple coincidence? 😀 hmmmmm)

Nice One, LinkedIn!

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Just logging into LinkedIn today I saw they announced their Q1 2012 revenue — now the numbers themselves are impressive, but what caught my attention was the brilliant starting slide of their presentation: the very people who made LinkedIn get to this stage: Absolutely brilliant! Well done, LinkedIn!  

Covent Garden from My Window

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Currently in London briefly, and luckily I’m bang in the middle of the City, in Covent Gardens. For a fraction of a second, it was sunny and nice (yeah, would you believe it this DOES actually happens sometimes in London? :D) so here’s what Neal Street in London looked like at the time:  

Refresh Your Ads!

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This is a long-forgotten photo — which in all honesty, I did intend to publish during Ad:Tech San Francisco, as that’s when this bottle came to life. (And from what I know it provided refreshments for many of the attendants too!) Being at Ad:Tech San Francisco with Cognitive Match, couldn’t help taking a picture of […]

Liv and California

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I thought I’d never live to see this, but in Los Gatos a couple of weeks ago, I’ve seen my own name used as a brand name! No idea what that shop is selling (was too busy trying to find a bar that was goddam open on Easter Sunday 🙂 ) but the conclusion to […]

Dr. Who in San Jose?

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Unfortunately my BlackBerry’s camera didn’t help here but you can see on the street in the near distance is a red phonebox — looked to me identical to the London ones! Was waiting for Dr Who to pop out of it … but 10 minutes later I got bored and went back in the bar […]