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1. Ethan:

   Huzzah! Free G5s for your friends, yes?

   Yes?

   *crickets chirping*

   Posted 2 minutes after the fact

   Inspired: ↓ Mark Wubben

2. Simon Willison:

   Congratulations! That's fantastic news. Is the visa all sorted out now?

   Posted 9 minutes after the fact

   Inspired: ↓ Dunstan

3. Dunstan:

   Unfortunately not, Simon. I'm going to be working in the UK office for 6 months, and then (and only then) will I qualify for an L1B visa, which will let me transfer to the US office.

   The H1B visa passed me by...

   Posted 17 minutes after the fact

   Inspired by: ↑ Simon Willison

4. Rob Mientjes:

   Congratulations, my man! That's awesome. How about the GF, by the way? (Or is that a touchy subject? :P)

   And what an amazing info graphic as well :)

   Posted 17 minutes after the fact

   Inspired: ↓ Dunstan

5. Christian Machmeier:

   Congratulations!

   That is really great news for you!

   Posted 20 minutes after the fact

6. Mark Wubben:

   "Huzzah! Free G5s for your friends, yes?"

   Oh he better ;-)

   Congrats Dunstan :)

   Posted 32 minutes after the fact

   Inspired by: ↑ Ethan

7. Colin:

   Congrats! You are living the dream...well, my dream, anyway...minus the circus folk and mythical animals.

   Posted 34 minutes after the fact

   Inspired: ↓ Brian Barbutti

8. Pascal:

   Congrats from me, too. It's always nice to see people getting cooler jobs than I do... But maybe that's because I'm currently struggling a bit. ;)

   Posted 41 minutes after the fact

9. Jeff Croft:

   Congrats, Dustan! What will you be doing for Apple -- or can tou say? :)

   Posted 47 minutes after the fact

   Inspired: ↓ Turnip, ↓ Dunstan

10. Tom:

    Gratz, D - sounds like a lot of fun. I too liked the graphic :)

    Tom

    Posted 1 hour, 14 minutes after the fact

11. Sergio:

    Congradulations Dunstan! That's just plain awesome.

    Posted 1 hour, 23 minutes after the fact

12. Reinier:

    That sounds pretty cool!

    Posted 1 hour, 32 minutes after the fact

13. Kitta:

    Congratulations Dunstan. :o)

    Posted 1 hour, 44 minutes after the fact

14. Avianto:

    Congratulations, Dunstan. That's awesome!

    Posted 2 hours, 3 minutes after the fact

15. Seth:

    I just got a new job, too! Not at apple, though. Dammit.

    Congrats, Dunstan. I hope you love it!

    Posted 2 hours, 6 minutes after the fact

16. Dougal Campbell:

    So I'm not the only one with a new job, eh? (http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2004/11/29/new-job) Congrats!

    I'm not so greedy as to expect a new G5, though. A G4 and an iPod will do nicely.

    Posted 2 hours, 50 minutes after the fact

17. Pete:

    This is awesome, congratulations!

    Posted 2 hours, 56 minutes after the fact

18. Andrew Green:

    Nice one, Dunstan! Those years editing Acorn User have finally paid off!

    (OK, maybe that had nothing to do with it really...)

    Posted 3 hours, 13 minutes after the fact

19. Darren:

    long time reader, first time commenter.

    good work :)

    dw

    Posted 3 hours, 15 minutes after the fact

20. Veerle Pieters:

    Congratz! Totally cool :-)
    If I wouldn't have my own business I would love to work for Apple... imagine all those nice UI work. Hope you enjoy it A LOT! And btw don't forget to write us a summary if maybe one day you're invited for tea with Steve J. :-D

    Posted 3 hours, 17 minutes after the fact

21. Rimantas:

    Oh, great news. You deserve it.
    Looking forward to hear more from you :)

    Posted 3 hours, 44 minutes after the fact

22. Turnip:

    "What will you be doing for Apple" -- I'm wondering this too.

    Congratulations though :)

    Posted 4 hours, 23 minutes after the fact

    Inspired by: ↑ Jeff Croft

    Inspired: ↓ Dunstan

23. Brian Barbutti:

    It's my dream too!! AMAZING!

    Congratulations Dunstan!

    Posted 4 hours, 34 minutes after the fact

    Inspired by: ↑ Colin

24. Mo:

    Congra on your Job...If you don't mind me asking, why do u have to wait 6 months?

    Posted 4 hours, 48 minutes after the fact

25. Marten Veldthuis:

    Three hurrays for Dunstan! Damn nice!

    Posted 5 hours, 21 minutes after the fact

26. Margaret:

    Hurrah for Dunstan! Living the dream(s)!

    Posted 5 hours, 26 minutes after the fact

27. Craig C.:

    25 comments and not a single "apple orchard" pun... D'oh!

    Posted 5 hours, 32 minutes after the fact

28. Andrew Phillipo:

    On a completely different note ... when did you implement 'the coolest live search ever' into your site...

    Lucky you working for Apple! Can you tell them to make the iPod out of toughened, scratch proof glass - had my beautiful 40GB one from the apple store three days and it looks like my two year old game boy screen! Thanks!

    Posted 6 hours, 16 minutes after the fact

    Inspired: ↓ Dunstan

29. Jeff Wheeler:

    Congratulations! I'm happy for you.

    And just like everybody else, I'm quite curious as to what you're doing, and about the gf.

    Posted 6 hours, 29 minutes after the fact

    Inspired: ↓ Dunstan

30. Dante Evans:

    Salúd a Dunstan!

    Salúd!

    Congratulations; what exactly are you going to be doing? Have you met Steve Jobs yet?

    Posted 6 hours, 30 minutes after the fact

    Inspired: ↓ Dunstan

31. Colin:

    Congratulations Dunstan! Ive always had a feeling that working for Apple would be really cool. Same with Pixar for that matter...

    I'm now feeling vaguely more motivated to get up off my lazy arse and go job hunting since I graduated uni in the summer and haven't done much since!

    Posted 6 hours, 58 minutes after the fact

32. Sean Devine:

    My favorite company just got cooler!

    Posted 6 hours, 59 minutes after the fact

33. David Barrett:

    Congratulations dude, I hope it goes well.

    Posted 7 hours, 31 minutes after the fact

34. Ned:

    congrats, Dunstan. you da' man.

    Posted 8 hours, 17 minutes after the fact

35. Rick Yribe:

    Congratulations!

    Posted 8 hours, 43 minutes after the fact

36. ACJ:

    Congratulations, Dunstan!

    Notify me when the new Powerbooks arrive: I plan on getting one. ☺

    Posted 8 hours, 57 minutes after the fact

37. Chris Vance:

    Way to go! I know from experience (continuing experience) that job hunting is never fun.

    Congratulations!

    Posted 10 hours, 51 minutes after the fact

38. Oneband:

    Congratulations!

    I envy you^^;

    Posted 14 hours, 19 minutes after the fact

39. Matt Wilcox:

    Congratulations Dunstan, sounds like you're going to be sorted in another 6 months, and I'm sure it'll be good working at Apple UK in the mean time. :)

    Posted 14 hours, 24 minutes after the fact

40. Andy Budd:

    Nice one Dunstan. Pleased that you got the job and equally pleased that we'll be having you back in the UK for a few months. If you need a hand over at cuppa-tea-no in 6 months time, you've got my number ;-)

    Posted 15 hours, 15 minutes after the fact

41. Jeremy Higgs:

    Congratulations, Dunstan!

    Care to give us some more hints on what area you're working in? :)

    Posted 16 hours, 26 minutes after the fact

    Inspired: ↓ Dunstan

42. Tim:

    "London office" - is that what they call Bourne End now?

    Posted 16 hours, 42 minutes after the fact

43. Dave:

    Congratulations. Apple is a lucky company to get you.

    Posted 18 hours, 11 minutes after the fact

44. Dunstan:

    The Girlfriend, I'm afraid, is staying in San Francisco. We'll be together for Christmas (she flies in on the 20th) and we'll see each other in March when I go to SXSW, but other than that it's going to be Love At A Distance.

    :o(

    Posted 18 hours, 27 minutes after the fact

    Inspired by: ↑ Rob Mientjes, ↑ Jeff Wheeler

    Inspired: ↓ Pieter Hooimeijer

45. Dunstan:

    "...what exactly are you going to be doing?"

    Sorry fellas, I'm not allowed to say :o/

    Posted 18 hours, 30 minutes after the fact

    Inspired by: ↑ Jeff Croft, ↑ Turnip, ↑ Dante Evans, ↑ Jeremy Higgs

    Inspired: ↓ David Barrett, ↓ AkaXakA

46. Dunstan:

    Andrew, I put the livesearch feature up a couple of weeks ago. It wasn't entirely finished (I can't recall if it works in IE), but I got so tired of sitting on it I figured I'd just put it live and damn the consequences.

    Glad you like it :o)

    Posted 18 hours, 38 minutes after the fact

    Inspired by: ↑ Andrew Phillipo

    Inspired: ↓ Andrew, ↓ Vincent Pickering

47. Alan Knipmeyer:

    From Lattis to Apple ;)

    Congrats Dunstan. Nuke Looksmart should you pass the building :)

    Re,

    Al.

    Posted 20 hours, 20 minutes after the fact

48. David Barrett:

    If I were to guess, I'd say you're working on the iTunes music store or an Apple sub-site (like the "Powered by Wordpress" student site).

    Either that, or testing how well Powerbooks handle a hammer to the Apple logo.

    Posted 22 hours, 56 minutes after the fact

    Inspired by: ↑ Dunstan

49. Pushkar:

    You da mahn.
    congrats dunstan.

    Posted 1 day after the fact

50. Mayu:

    Go Dunstan! Congrats!
    San Francisco'll be waiting for ya.

    Posted 1 day, 6 hours after the fact

51. Scott Johnson:

    Congratulations!! Wow! I can't wait for more details!

    Posted 1 day, 7 hours after the fact

52. Chris Messina:

    Congrats man! Can't wait to see what you produce for them (hopefully you'll still be able to publish and discuss your insights and adventures!).

    Chris

    Posted 1 day, 9 hours after the fact

53. Kareem Mayan:

    Dunstan-
    The deal's done, eh? Good stuff, congratulations. Was good meeting you in SF at the Basecamp & Blogger gig--maybe we'll quaff another beer in Austin?

    Kareem

    Posted 1 day, 19 hours after the fact

54. Nathan Logan:

    Wow. That's really, really cool (even if I'm not a Mac guy).

    My sincere congratulations!

    Posted 1 day, 22 hours after the fact

55. Andrew:

    Would it be a good idea to keep the search results on the right if you click one of them?

    Congratulations on the job!

    Posted 2 days after the fact

    Inspired by: ↑ Dunstan

56. Maria:

    Congratulations!!! I wish I had some special abilities that made me desirable for a job abroad, but alas, it's not for everyone.
    Maria

    Posted 2 days, 5 hours after the fact

57. Jolo:

    dunstan,

    Congrats!!!!

    Posted 2 days, 15 hours after the fact

58. Nick:

    rock my socks. that's awesomeness Dman. i heart San Fran.

    Posted 3 days, 12 hours after the fact

59. Mark Beveridge:

    Sweet! Congratulations!!

    For people interested in Steve J, and the Pixar history, I enjoyed "The Second Coming of Steve Jobs" [1]. YMMV

    [1] http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0767904338/qid=1102081187/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-8859234-9398438?v=glance&s=books

    Posted 3 days, 19 hours after the fact

60. Rick:

    Congratulations, Dunstan. After a year in Iraq, and a few more months to go, I can tell you that the internet is a great way to keep in touch with the loved ones. One benefit of modern technology: I'm an Infantryman at war with a 256Kbs connection ;o)

    Posted 3 days, 22 hours after the fact

61. Mike F:

    Congrats, Dunstan. Well deserved!! Look forward to following your exploits!

    Posted 4 days, 1 hour after the fact

62. Biggest Apple:

    Great news about the job! Sorry to hear about the whole "love at a distance" thing but my wife and I dated for nearly 3 years long distance before we finally ended up on the same continent. IT CAN BE DONE !! ;)

    Posted 4 days, 19 hours after the fact

63. Dustin:

    My buddy's father works for apple and he tells us they treat him like crap.

    But hopefully you'll be working in a more creative department.

    The only great thing that's came of his job is that every time we moved places when we were in college we had plenty of G3 and G4 boxes to pack our stuff in.

    As of now we have quite a few empty G5 boxes lyin' around the apartment.

    Hope you have fun at apple. San Francisco is cold and windy.

    Posted 6 days, 1 hour after the fact

64. Jonathan Fenocchi:

    Congartumulations, Dunstan, and good luck!

    Posted 6 days, 4 hours after the fact

65. Vidar:

    Did I hear something about Free G5s? :D

    Posted 6 days, 22 hours after the fact

66. Andrew Krespanis:

    Dunstan @ Apple, Matt @ c|net...
    The infiltration plan is working perfectly :D

    Posted 1 week after the fact

67. Ram Prasad:

    Congrats ! Was waiting for this news from you for a long time. Have a ball at apple ! keep everyone posted on how working for Apple is (I think I know which division you would be working for ;-) )

    Kudos !

    Posted 1 week after the fact

68. Blizt:

    A little late maybe but: congratulations!

    Posted 1 week after the fact

69. Dante Evans:

    Now I wish I hadn't yelled at Dunstan for his Mozilla site breaking in Opera. I guess that spoiled any chance of me getting a G5 :)

    Again, apologies for yelling at you and congrats on the new job.

    Posted 1 week, 1 day after the fact

70. Patrick Haney:

    Oh, I get it. You're going to be working on some anti-fruit fly design for Apple! That should keep the G5 bug-free. =)

    Posted 1 week, 3 days after the fact

71. Mathias Bynens:

    Congratulations. You have now truly become my Idol.

    Posted 1 week, 4 days after the fact

72. Pieter Hooimeijer:

    Ok and now over to my slow response:

    Congrats Dunstan. From what I can tell you've got a very good deal in terms of your US Visa (given the circumstances). Cheers.

    Posted 2 weeks after the fact

    Inspired by: ↑ Dunstan

73. Wally:

    Dunstan does .... widgets!

    Posted 2 weeks after the fact

74. Mike D.:

    I like Mark Beveridge's name. If I were Mark and I had a kid, I'd name him Tasty.

    Posted 2 weeks, 1 day after the fact

75. Sid:

    Congarts on the job with Apple, Dustan! San Francisco isn't to bad... I used to live in the area. It is pretty cool and the sites are great. Best of luck!

    Posted 2 weeks, 3 days after the fact

76. Manji:

    There are some rumours....hmmm...on the internets....about free G5´s..... ;)
    Good luck mate

    Posted 2 weeks, 4 days after the fact

77. Sian:

    Great news Dunstan, well done!

    Posted 2 weeks, 4 days after the fact

78. Vincent Pickering:

    I tested your live search in IE 6 sp2 and it works fine, also in firefox 1.0, Netscape 7 and the latest mozilla build (all windows), perfect in them all. The only problem i encountered was it not working in Opera 7.54, however the fallback form-post option worked fine (clever catch there very impressed!).

    Not tested it on a mac though, but very impressive non the less!

    Posted 2 weeks, 6 days after the fact

    Inspired by: ↑ Dunstan

79. Stephen:

    My work-place does not allow any other browser but IE and I can confirm live search does work, kind of. IE generally makes a bit of a pigs ear out of your wonderful code.

    Try searching using Google suggest (great minds think alike):
    http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en

    P.S. Every time I use your site it gets better, just noticed the spelling tool on comment preview. Awe.

    Posted 3 weeks, 1 day after the fact

80. Eddy:

    Cool new job Dunstan. iPod as a perk of the job :) hehe.

    Posted 3 weeks, 3 days after the fact

81. Dominic:

    Who ate Dunstan?

    Posted 3 weeks, 4 days after the fact

    Inspired: ↓ Kitta, ↓ Kitten

82. Kitta:

    I was starting to think the same thing.

    Posted 3 weeks, 5 days after the fact

    Inspired by: ↑ Dominic

    Inspired: ↓ Kitten

83. Sergio:

    The dingo ate him!

    Posted 4 weeks after the fact

84. Thill:

    Well,
    You can't have everything, Dunstan @ Blog AND Dunstan @ Apple.

    The man had to make a choice.

    Can't exactly blame him for choosing Apple!

    I've said it before, but well done again!!!

    Posted 4 weeks, 1 day after the fact

85. Maria:

    Feliz año nuevo, Dunstan!

    Posted 1 month after the fact

86. Kitten:

    I'm a little worried now...

    Posted 1 month after the fact

    Inspired by: ↑ Dominic, ↑ Kitta

87. Mac:

    Dunstan? Ya there, Dunstan?

    Posted 1 month after the fact

88. Carla:

    Congratulations! That's awesome. What a way to start off the year.

    Posted 1 month, 1 week after the fact

89. AkaXakA:

    Congrats Dunstan!

    I think the same "thing" that took a bite out of the logo has gone after Dunstan...

    But as to what he'll be doing (and huddle in closer now, this is a momentous occasion, and will put an end to the rumours)... ... ... designing!

    Posted 1 month, 1 week after the fact

    Inspired by: ↑ Dunstan

90. Daniel Liddington:

    Excellent Dunstan

    Congratulations :)

    DanDan x

    Posted 1 month, 1 week after the fact

91. Gaz:

    Congrats, usually I do not comment but congrats

    Posted 1 month, 1 week after the fact

92. Brian Gilham:

    Congrats on the new job.

    Posted 1 month, 1 week after the fact

93. Mark J:

    Does this mean no more blogging? Apple doesn't permit its employees to have blogs, AFAIK.

    Posted 1 month, 1 week after the fact

    Inspired: ↓ Xrissley

94. Markus:

    Where did he go?

    Posted 1 month, 2 weeks after the fact

95. Antonio Madonna:

    Congratulations! I hope to see a new Apple.com soon!

    Posted 3 months, 3 weeks after the fact

96. Oum:

    That's fantastic news! Congratulations!!!

    Posted 3 months, 4 weeks after the fact

97. Xrissley:

    AFAIK, Apple doesn't have an explicit policy about blogs or else. Apple has NDAs and their employees' judgement to decide how what where they do.
    For your info, here is a list of know Apple's employees who have blogs
    http://seriot.ch/AppleBlogs (text in French, URLs in standard web exploitable format ;-) )
    (disclosure: I am an Apple employee, and have one of these -personal and family related though- blog thingies)

    PS: Dunstan, your nifty spell checker doesn't like my spelling of "Judgment" but the Oxford says its a variant, and acceptable. So I'll stick with it.

    Posted 5 months, 3 weeks after the fact

    Inspired by: ↑ Mark J

98. David:

    Nice work, have fun, good luck. And let us know how it goes :D

    (Better late then never I guess)

    Posted 6 months after the fact

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