Actually, the last two jobs I've been offered more than I asked. For the record, I'm a LAMP (Perl) developer - although in this case the M is an O, and sometimes the A has morphed into Cron or Postfix.

First one I had been without a job for 1 1/4 years, and just wanted to work. I gave a low figure, and was offered 25% more than that. Second job was not quite as bad, but I optimistically asked for a 10% rise as a result of moving - and got 10% *on top of what I asked for*

Seriously, if you're being hired via a recruiter, ask their advice, before the interview stages . Because they're getting paid a cut of your salary, they'll generally recommend something that's feasible, while being as large as the feel you can get away with.

A good recruiter is your friend. Bad recruiters a: should be shot, and b: are everywhere.

Seriously, I stopped going to *public* libraries when I started work full time, in favour of Book Stores.
If I hadn't moved countries during the Dot-Com bubble bursting I'd probably have a room in my house housing my own, private library.
All done in in the best possible taste, naturally.

This is alternately good and bad - some are short - in one case only one syllable (vao), but some or more (one is called utuaoteolopuka). Thing is there seems to be a nearly endless supply of names, some of which seem very similar to each other.

I know the boss has a reason for doing this, but that won't make me like it any more.

This is something I really don't agree with.
Some things can be said to age or go downhill, others simply change.

Believe it or not (and I hope you would, given the demographic of the SD crowd), people don't like doing the same stuff all the time. They like change. They like to be challenged. They like to learn new things.

Sometimes, new things aren't quite the same as the old. Some better, some worse. You have to allow for possible failure if you want the good stuff.

Early Dwarf was primarily an odd-couple comedy, the inter-relation between diametrically opposed characters in a confined environment. After a while (series 3?) it became an ensemble piece. Then it veered in another difference for a while.

Seriously, if Rob + Doug had wanted to do the same thing, they'd be writing for soaps.

Yech, I sound like some of my old teachers.