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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 November, 2002

This little mind-blower from TMW:

November 26th, 2002

This little mind-blower from TMW:
an article
from 1997
about the government’s unconstitutional desire to wiretap
Internet communications.

The protections of the Fourth Amendment are clear. The right to
protection from unlawful searches is an indivisible American value. Two
hundred years of court decisions have stood in defense of this
fundamental right. The state’s interest in effective crime-fighting
should never vitiate the citizens’ Bill of Rights.

Author: Senator John Ashcroft. Weird.

Salon on Trading Spaces:

November 26th, 2002


Salon on Trading Spaces: Home
decorating, and other lies
. “You’ll never see the sewing coordinator
who has done all the sewing. You will not hear him tell a homeowner
working in front of the camera that she won’t hurt anything because the
machine isn’t threaded. You also will not know that some of the scenes
that take place on Day 1 actually were shot near the end of Day 2. And
you will never know how many retakes it took to get the scene right.”

So, we got new chairs at the office today.

November 25th, 2002


So, we got new
chairs
at the office today. [shakes head slowly, at a loss for
words]

Mark and his cat ER adventure.

November 24th, 2002


Mark and his cat ER adventure.

PCWorld:

November 22nd, 2002


PCWorld: What’s
New in Palmland
.

Gems on Slashdot about Ellen Feiss’s interview with the Brown Herald.

November 22nd, 2002

Gems
on Slashdot about Ellen
Feiss’s interview
with the Brown Herald. “She was wearing
comfy clothes. Comfy. What could influence an individual to wear comfy
clothes but the gentle ministrations of marijuana?” And, hey, I mean,
Brown? Come on.

From the interview itself, an elegant Steve slam: “I met Steve Jobs. He
called me by my first name — clever, huh? It was brief.”

Don’t have enough to read on the Web?

November 21st, 2002


Don’t have enough to read on the Web? Want some recommendations?

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