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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Another thing learned from Getting Away With It … Live: My
favorite track from Whiplash, “Tomorrow”, was “written to stop a
very close friend from jumping off a roof.” Appropriate.
Now your grip’s too strong, you can’t catch love with a net or a gun
Gotta keep faith that your path will change
Gotta keep faith that your love will change
Tomorrow.
Listening to Getting
Away With It … Live, I occasioned to stop by AMG and find out
where some of these new tracks came from. Turns out they came from the
two UK-only studio albums released since 1997’s Whiplash, and
they’re apparently fabulous:
James’ tenth makes you wonder what all the fuss over U2 and R.E.M.’s
rebirths are about. [AMG]
(Not surprisingly, I’ve personally made quite a fuss over All That You
Can’t Leave Behind and Reveal.)
Bruce Tognazzini’s Quiz To
Give You Fitts. (Hint: Fitts’s 1954 law (confession: I had to look
up the date) provides a model for the time taken to execute a targeted
motion; it’s the reason why a big button is easier to find and
click than a small one.)
An excellent side-effect of my new glasses: I take frequent breaks,
because my eyes now get tired no matter what I do — glasses
on or off.