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I am currently a software engineer at Google, where as a member of the Android platform team I build frameworks and user interfaces.

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Archive for October, 2001

Lissart (also by Chris Tate for BeOS R5) has been added to the BeOS screen savers.

October 16th, 2001

Lissart (also by Chris Tate for BeOS R5) has been added to the BeOS screen savers.

New arrival:

October 15th, 2001

New arrival: Foam, part of the BeOS Screensaver Pack, originally by Christopher Tate for
the Mac and then BeOS.

Buy Now!

October 15th, 2001

Since there seem to be so many ex-BeOS users moving to MacOS X, I think I’ll start
bringing the old BeOS screensavers* over to X.

Here’s my first one: Buy Now, which you can find in my new
BeOS Screensaver Pack.
(Buy Now was originally written by Ficus Kirkpatrick in 1999 and shipped as part of beOS R5.) Remember, Buy Now — a software product is only as good as it is lucrative!

*The rest of
them, anyway. Apple has already burgled the classic BeOS Icons
screensaver as part of their standard X distribution.

There’s something visceral about putting oil in your car.

October 13th, 2001

There’s something visceral about putting oil in your car. Especially when
your car is as low on oil as mine was. It seemed so thirsty!

CNet:

October 10th, 2001

CNet: Shares
of Be worth pocket change
.

Another Palm office photo — same as above, from a different angle.

October 8th, 2001

Another
Palm office photo
— same as above, from a different angle.

For those not local or who haven’t been down to Santa Clara to see them, I found a photo of one of the Palm buildings…

October 8th, 2001

For those not local or who
haven’t been down to Santa Clara to see them, I found a photo
of one of the Palm buildings at 3COM. (From an article
on Silicon Valley architecture.) Thanks, Google Image Search!

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