I just spent 2 very warm weeks in Mountain View, CA as part of my orientation at Google. Unfortunately it’s time to go back to the -18C temperatures of Canadia. A bunch of people keep asking me how it was, so here’s the lowdown:
Awesome food (I made a counscious effort to gain 5 pounds in [...]
To change levels safely with luggage cart, please use elevators…
…is what I just heard over the announcement system at SFO International airport. I think the main question here is: are people who take luggage carts on stairs/escalators actually smart enough to listen to announcements?
Fail.
Even though I enjoy the hobo life as much as the next guy it was finally time to try and get myself some sort of habitat – no, the cardboard box doesn’t count. I’m happy to announce that in one short day of looking (and a couple of months of frantic checking online) we found [...]
I’ve been asked a few times in the past few weeks about books that I’m reading, mostly because I tend to carry them around with me a lot. So I decided to write a bit about them. Maybe I’ll inspire a new generation of wonderful, socially-outcast bookworms. Or maybe I’m just bored. Here goes.
The Jungle
This [...]
Finally, after years of misery, I get the fame that I deserve.
I knew the day will come!
So I’m sitting and preparing “essay” questions for my organizational design exam a few days ago and I’m writing the paragraph you see on the right. I write the word entrepreneurial, and I really expect to get the spelling wrong, it’s just one of those words that I never get right. Plus it’s 11PM and [...]
So…
It’s finally almost time to be done.
Yesterday I wrote my last test. Eva. If you must know it was the operating systems term test, and it was pretty damn horrible. Enough said. Anyways, that wasn’t the point.
I’m not usually very feely-touchy about these things and when I saw other people who were about to graduate [...]
Today I presented a similar presentation to what Mike, Pardis and I presented 2 weeks ago at Eclipse DemoCamp.
I managed to squeeze our 15 minute presentation to under 5 minutes (I don’t know exactly how long I took, anyone keeping the time?), which was a bit of a challenge. I’ve got to admit that I [...]
Cocoa(R) Programming for Mac(R) OS X (3rd Edition) by Aaron Hillegass