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|author=Scott Berkun
|title=The Year Without Pants: WordPress.Com and the Future of Work
|rating=4.5
|genre=Business and Finance
|summary=Sometimes you find a book which you simply can't ''not'' read. 'The Year Without Pants' was one of them. It's not what you're thinking (money's not ''that'' tight) - but the story of what happens when an old-school management guru goes back to the coal face to lead a team which had not had a leader before - to be accurate they'd not had teams - in a revolutionary company which takes remote working to the extreme. Members of Scott Berkun's team lived all over the world and worked for a company which had largely gone beyond email, had headquarters which were rarely used and had no rules. So, why did I ''have'' to read the book? Well, the company in question is Automattic which brings us WordPress, the open source software which powers fifty million websites. I run a website which uses open-source software - and I've been in business for the last seven and a half years with someone to whom I've never even spoken.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1118660633</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|summary=On Christmas Eve, the night of the worst storm in 50 years, Jubilee Dougal's parents are arrested after a riot over decorative houses. Sent to stay with her grandparents, her train gets stuck. She ditches the train, and ends up in a waffle house with fourteen cheerleaders and various teen boys. Three best-selling authors team up to tell the story of this Christmas in a trio of interlinked novellas.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141349174</amazonuk>
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