What if you offered 3000 jobs in a place with 15% unemployment and nobody applied?

This is about as off-topic as can be, but I thought this was an interesting article from the Chemnitzer Morgenpost entitled “Why doesn’t anybody here want to work?” (Check out the Google-translated version of the article; it gets the point across pretty well.)
The setting: Leipzig, a large city in the part of today’s Germany [...]

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New directions online

Blogging here has been light, to put it mildly!  So much for my determination to dig into Django and blog regularly about it: the so-called “Total Django Immersion” I once so positively announced.
I’m in the process of, shall we say, “rehabilitating my online presence.”  I’ve begun that process by blogging about a topic [...]

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First post at new blog

I’ve retired multiple blogs in the past, but it’s nice to be back and finally writing something again.  The desire to resume blogging relates to my desire to pursue new directions in my programming career.
I’ve earned my keep for several years using Microsoft-only products, yet for the past three years the contagious excitement of the [...]

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