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Yesterday I woke up early and decided to catch the morning light. This is one of the pictures I took.

Yes please.

I’m fairly happy with this method. When I’ve skipped parts, I’ve ended up with bad hires who eventually had to be let go. But when I’ve followed it, I’ve ended up with people I like so much so that I actually feel bad I don’t get to work with them anymore. I’m amazed that so many companies use such silly hiring methods instead.

The interview process described is similar to the one used by the company which got me my first job in IT over ten years ago. It works ;-)

Learn how to create a Twitter-enabled Web 2.0-style application using Django, jQuery, and the python-twitter wrapper that you can easily use and plug in to your own Django project. With this application, you'll be able to see recent tweets, post updates, and show your friends and followers.

National Geographic's International Photography Contest attracts thousands of entries from photographers of all skill levels around the world every year. While this year's entry deadline has passed, there is still time to view and vote for your favorites in the Viewer's Choice competition. National Geographic was kind enough to let me choose a few of their entries from 2009 for display here on The Big Picture. Collected below are 25 images from the three categories of People, Places and Nature. Captions were written by the individual photographers. (25 photos total)

Amazing photos!

Made me think of that Jesus on toast that was sold on eBay.