Wikipedia leaves $100M on the table – no advertising

Jason McCabe Calacanis (Weblogs) writes about this… Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia) does not want to have *any* advertising, even if all of the proceeds were to go to worthy causes. Is there anything wrong with that? Jason appears to think so, pleading with Jimmy to reconsider. There’ll even be free bandwidth chucked in. But that’s a [...]

ThinkGeek is looking for a programmer (Fairfax VA)

You know ThinkGeek. Cool (geeky) stuff, and I know they’re very nice people too. Right now they’re also in need of a senior programmer… strong Linux, SQL, Perl and web skills. You have to be willing to move to Fairfax, Virginia. For more details, see http://www.thinkgeek.com/jobs The above URL also has a link for applying [...]

Arjen in Canberra, ACT

Well, it appears I’m in Canberra for a few days next week, teaching an in-house training course. Cool customer (might tell more later) and also cool because I haven’t been to Canberra yet. CLUG meetings are on another night so that’s a pity… if anyone local wants to catch up while I’m there (just Sunday [...]

Want to go to MySQL Camp but can’t afford it?

It appears that Jeremy Cole (Proven Scaling) can, as he’s offering you a “free ride”. To be exact, he’s offering to pay for travel and accomodation. That’s pretty cool! Just meals and local transportation are on you (but the local trains are cheap, and what does cold pizza cost? But seriously, there’s free food on [...]